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Clips represent your media, but they are not the media les themselves. The clips in
a project simply point to (link to) the source media les on your hard disk. When you
modify a clip, you are not modifying the media le, just the clip’s information in the
project. This is known as nondestructive editing, because all of the changes and eects
you apply to clips in Final Cut Pro never aect the media itself. Trimmed or deleted
pieces of clips are removed from your project only, not from the source clips in your
Event Library or from the source media les on your hard disk.
Project 2
Toy1
Event clips
Media files on your hard disk
Project 3
Project 1
Toy1.mov
Toy1
Toy1
Toy1
Eventsandprojects
In Final Cut Pro X, you use Events to collect and organize media. Events are like folders
that contain unedited media imported from a camera or some other source.
You use projects to edit and construct movies and share them with your audience. A
project is a record of the work you do in the Timeline and the editing decisions you
make. When you add a clip from an Event to a particular project, you create a link
between the source Event clip and the corresponding project clip (and, by extension,
between the Event and the project). However, neither the Event nor the source clip is
contained within the project. You can use that Event clip in other projects, and your
project can use clips from other Events.
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