Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 861)

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Using Generator Clips
Final Cut Express can generate several types of clips for you
to use in your sequences, including bars and tone,
placeholders, and backgrounds.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is a Generator Clip? (p. 861)
 Different Ways to Use Generators in Your Sequence (p. 862)
 Video and Audio Generators Available in Final Cut Express (p. 863)
 Creating and Adding Generators to Sequences (p. 867)
Note: For details about creating titles using text generators, see Chapter 55, “ Creating
Titles ,” on page 869.
What Is a Generator Clip?
Generators behave the same as other clips, but their content is actually generated
internally in Final Cut Express. Generators never refer to media files on the scratch disk,
so they can never be offline as can clips that refer to media files. Because generators
are generated by Final Cut Express, their aspect ratio, dimensions, resolution, and codec
are determined by the sequence they are edited into (unlike video and audio clips, in
which these characteristics are based on the media files they refer to).