Specifications

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Managing Your Project and Media
4. Select Master Clips and Precompute Clips, if you’d like.
A master clip can have several associated media files, one or more
video media files, and up to eight audio media files. Therefore, Media
Composer represents this group of media files by its master clip in the
Media tool. For this reason, you will rarely if ever need to display media
files (the third option).
Precompute clips link to rendered effects and titles.
5. Click OK.
The Media tool provides the same database functionality as a bin,
including the ability to sort, sift, display column headings, and view
clips in Frame, Text, Brief, or Script view. You can also drag master
clips from the Media tool into bins.
Identifying Media Relatives
Yo u c an i de nt if y the me di a o bje ct s ( mas te r c li p s, s ub cl i ps , pr ec o mp u tes ,
sequences) that share media files, regardless of whether the media files
are present on the system. Media objects that share the same media files
are called media relatives. Identifying media relatives can be useful when
you want to identify the following:
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The master clip from which a subclip was generated
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The master clips, subclips, and precomputes associated with a
sequence or project
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The media files to delete from a project without taking offline any of the
media used in a sequence
To identify the media relatives of a clip or sequence:
1. Open the bins that contain the master clips, subclips, and sequences
of the media files that you want to find, making sure that all items are
deselected in the bin.
2. Select the master clips, subclips, or sequences for which you want to
identify the media relatives.
3. Select Bin > Select Media Relatives to highlight the media relatives of
the selected items in all open bins.
NOTE Because master
clips in the Media tool
are there only to refer-
ence media files on the
system, any master clips
that are offline will not
appear in the Media tool.
NOTE All items that you
wish to select must be in
the same bin.
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