User Guide

Managing and Revealing Master Clips

In previous versions of Final Cut Pro, affiliate clips shared data with a master clip stored

in the Browser. If you deleted the master clip, a dialog would appear requesting

confirmation that you wanted to break the master-affiliate clip relationship. If you

clicked OK, all of the affiliated clips would become independent.

In Final Cut Pro 5.1.2, deleting a master clip no longer breaks the relationship between

affiliated clips. Instead, the master-affiliate clip relationship still exists even when the

master clip in the Browser is deleted. No dialog appears when you delete a master clip.

Also, when you open an older project in Final Cut Pro 5.1.2, master clips are no longer

created in the Browser. To create master clips for your sequence clips, you can use the

Create Master Clips command described below.

To create one or more master clips from independent sequence clips:

Select one or more independent sequence clips and drag them from the sequence to

the Browser.

Master clips are created for each independent clip dragged to the Browser.

To create master clips for one or more selected sequences in the Browser:

Select one or more sequences in the Browser. If no sequences are selected,

Final Cut Pro behaves as though all sequences are selected.

Choose Tools > Create Master Clips.

If one sequence was selected, a bin named after the sequence is created, containing

master clips for each independent clip in the sequence. If multiple sequences were

selected, a bin named after the project is created, containing master clips for each

independent clip in the selected sequences.

To create a new master clip in the Browser using the Reveal Master Clip command:

In the Timeline, select (or move the playhead over) an affiliate sequence clip that no

longer has a master clip in the Browser.

Choose View > Reveal Master Clip (or press Shift-F).

A dialog appears asking if you want to create a new master clip.

Click OK to create a new master clip in the Browser.

A master clip for all affiliated clips is created in the Browser.

To make all clips in a sequence independent:

Select a sequence in the Browser, then choose Modify > Make Sequence Clips

Independent.