Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 294)

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 Master clip: When you log, capture, or import a media file into Final Cut Express, a
master clip is created. Master clips exist exclusively in the Browser, and they are used
to manage and reconnect multiple instances of the same footage used throughout
your project. Master clips have a number of clip properties that are shared among
any copies (referred to as affiliates) of the clip. This allows you to reconnect or change
the properties of many affiliate clips at once by changing the properties in the
master clip or just one of the affiliate clips. For more information, see Chapter 60,
“
Working with Master and Affiliate Clips ,” on page 943.
 Affiliate clip: Any clip derived from a master clip in the Browser. Each time you edit a
clip into a sequence, Final Cut Express creates a new instance of that clip, called an
affiliate clip because it shares properties with its master clip. This new sequence clip
gets most of its properties from the master clip.
 Subclip: A clip created to represent a limited portion of a media file. By artificially
limiting the duration of a media file, a subclip allows you to work with smaller
sections of a media file. These subclip limits can be removed at any time so you can
work with the whole clip. For example, if an original media file is 10 minutes long, the
Browser clip is also 10 minutes long. You can make a 1-minute subclip and work with
the subclip as if the media were only 1 minute long. For more information, see
Chapter 20, “
Creating Subclips ,” on page 277.
About Offline Clips
If a media file is modified, moved, or deleted, the Final Cut Express clip that connects to
that media file can no longer find it. In this case, the clip’s media file is said to be offline.
The clip itself is described as an offline clip.
An offline clip has a red slash through its icon in the Browser or its file in the Timeline.
To view an offline clip properly in your project, you must capture the clip again or, if the
clip’s media file is already on your disk, reconnect the clip to the corresponding source
file at the new location on disk.
For information on reconnecting offline clips, see Chapter 61, “ Reconnecting Clips
and Offline Media ,” on page 955.
A clip is considered offline when the clip’s Source property is incorrect (when there is
no media file at the file path in the Source property). This happens when a media file is
modified, moved, or deleted, the modification date of the media file is changed, or the
scratch disk becomes unavailable.