Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.1.2) - Manual (Page 421)

Chapter 14 Manage media, libraries, and archives 421
For information about using optimized or proxy media for playback, see Control playback quality
and performance on page 85. For more general information about optimized and proxy media,
see Manage optimized and proxy media files on page 425.
Locate source media files
You can locate the source media file (on the hard disk) for any clip in your library.
Locate the source media file for an event clip
1 If you don’t see the Libraries list, click the button at the bottom-left corner of the Browser.
2 In the Libraries list, select the event that contains the clip.
3 Select the clip in the Browser.
4 Choose File > Reveal in Finder (or press Shift-Command-R).
A Finder window opens, with the source media file selected.
You can also quickly find the source event clip for any clip in the Timeline. For more information,
see
Find a Timeline clip’s source clip on page 116.
Relink clips to media files
In Final Cut Pro, clips represent your media, but they are not the media files themselves.
Final Cut Pro keeps track of the links between clips and media files automatically. However, there
are times when you need to manually relink clips to media files.
One common scenario that requires relinking is when files are altered or re-created outside of
your copy of Final Cut Pro. For example, if you send files out for color correction, you may need to
relink the clips in your event to the color-corrected versions of the files when you receive them.
Another case requiring manual relinking is missing media files. For example, if you move or
rename externally linked files in the Finder, or you move an event or a project to a different
location, you need to relink the event or project clips (which appear as red frames with yellow
alert triangles) to the files.
In either case, manually relinking connects the clips in Final Cut Pro to the correct files on your
hard disk. Metadata in the relinked clips remains unchanged.
The new (relinked) files can have a different resolution and codec than the original files, but
they must be the same media type. (In other words, you can’t relink a video clip to an audio file.)
Relinked files must also have the same frame rate and similar audio channels as the original files.
The new (relinked) files can also be trimmed versions of the original files, but they must be long
enough to cover all the clips that refer to the files.
When you relink clips to media files on your hard disk, all instances of the clips in the current
library (including those in other projects or events) are updated to link to the new media files. In
other words, if you used a clip in multiple projects or events, each of those projects and events is
relinked to the new media file.
Note: You cannot undo the Relink Files command.
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