Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1538)

Important: It is important to understand the difference between clips and media files
when performing this step. This option creates a new sequence with new sequence clips
at full quality, but no new media files are created. Once you have a sequence with
full-quality settings, you can reingest your media files at full quality. Also, the word offline
in the Create Offline option actually refers to creating clips whose media files are offline,
and doesn’t actually relate to the offline/online editing process. For more information,
see
“Clips Described by Their Properties.”
You can restrict your new sequence clips so that only the media necessary to create your
finished edit is required, instead of the entire length of the original media files. This saves
time and disk space when you reingest.
If you are doing online editing on a non-Final Cut Pro editing system, you need to export
your sequence to a project interchange format such as an EDL, AAF, or the Final Cut Pro
XML Interchange Format. Third-party plug-ins are available for converting Final Cut Pro
projects directly to other nonlinear editing system formats.
At this stage, you also export your audio to an audio interchange format, such as OMF,
or separate audio files for audio mixing in a separate application.
Stage 4: Reingesting Necessary Media at Full Quality
You open the full-quality sequence on a Final Cut Pro editing system capable of reingesting
and finishing your project at full quality, and then ingest your footage.
Note: Post-production professionals use the term conform to describe Stages 3 and 4. In
other words, you are “conforming” the media to the highest available quality of the source
media.
Stage 5: Adding Final Color Correction, Effects, Transitions, and Titles
Once you have full-quality footage, you can use Color to accurately grade and color correct
and use Motion to add final titles and effects. At the end of this process, you render your
effects in preparation for output. Your final audio mix is created in Final Cut Pro or
Soundtrack Pro, or the audio mix is imported from a separate audio application.
Stage 6: Outputting Your Project
You output or export your final sequence as you would with any other project.
You can output your finished program to videotape or send it to Compressor for
transcoding. You can also use Share to quickly create and deliver output media files in
iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, MobileMe, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and YouTube formats.
• For more information about outputting to tape, see “Preparing to Output to Tape.”
• For more information about sending to Color, see the Color User Manual, available in
Color Help.
• For more information about Share, see “Using Share.”
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