About offline clips – Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual
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Chapter 5
Working With Projects, Clips, and Sequences
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 Merged clip: A clip that refers to more than one media file at once. A merged clip can
refer to one video file and up to 24 separate audio files. You need to merge a video
clip with audio clips if you record picture and sound to separate devices during
production. For more information, see Chapter 3, “
Merging Clips From Dual System
 Multiclip: Multiple clips synced together, in parallel, within a single clip. The main
reason to use a multiclip is to edit multicamera footage in real time. You can sync
together any footage you want in a multiclip, not just different camera angles. For
instance, when making a music video, you could sync three different performances
of the band playing and cut between them on the beat.
About Offline Clips
If a media file is modified, moved, or deleted, the Final Cut Pro 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 Volume IV, Chapter 6, “Reconnecting
Clips and Offline Media.”