Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1394)

Chapter 4 Working With Master and Affiliate Clips 43
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Creating Master and Affiliate Clips
Besides capturing and importing clips into a project, there are several other ways to
create new master clips:
 Create a new subclip, merged clip, multiclip, or freeze frame clip: When each of these is
created, they are master clips. When you edit with these clips, affiliate clips are
created from the master clip.
 Import an EDL: This creates a sequence of affiliate clips and a bin containing the
sequence clips’ master clips. This makes media management much easier than if all
the sequence clips were independent.
 Use the Duplicate as New Master Clip command: This allows you to duplicate a master
clip in the Browser as a new, unrelated master clip. The new master clip is unaffiliated
with the original master clip.
Important: If you have several master clips that refer to exactly the same media,
make sure you edit only with one of the master clips unless you have a reason to use
a different one. Keeping more than one master clip that refers to the same media
files creates multiple master-affiliate relationships in your sequences that can be
potentially confusing during media management, recapturing, and reconnecting.
 Use the Make Master Clip command: This command (Modify > Make Master Clip) is
available if you select an affiliate clip in the Browser. It turns an affiliate clip into its
own master clip.
Creating a Master Clip by Duplicating a Master Clip
You can intentionally duplicate a master clip to create a new, independent master clip,
which will then have its own affiliates. However, you should do this sparingly since the
main intention of a master clip is to have only one clip per project that represents a
media file on disk.
To create a new master clip by duplicating a master clip, do one of the
following:
m Control-click any clip in the Browser, then choose Duplicate as New Master Clip from
the shortcut menu.
m Select a clip in the Browser, then choose Modify > Duplicate as New Master Clip.
The clip is duplicated, and the new clip is an unrelated master clip.