Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 409)

This chapter covers the following:
• Learning About Subclips (p. 409)
• Techniques for Breaking Large Clips into Subclips (p. 413)
• Creating Independent Media Files from Subclips After Capturing (p. 416)
Lengthy media files can be unwieldy for editing. If you capture an entire tape as a single
media file, you can break the clip into shorter subclips. You can also break the media file
into smaller media files.
Learning About Subclips
For organizational purposes, you can break up a single large clip into several subclips.
Subclips are defined by In and Out points or markers set in the original clip prior to the
creation of subclips. New subclips automatically become their own master clips, with no
affiliation to the clip from which they were created.
Clip
Subclip
Subclips allow you to work more easily with lengthy media by breaking up a single clip
into many smaller pieces. For example, you can open a 20-minute clip comprising 15
different shots in the Viewer and divide it into 15 subclips, one for each shot.
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