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4 To have Final Cut Pro copy your media les and add them to the Final Cut Pro Event
folder that you specied, select the checkbox.
5 If you want to organize your media, transcode your media, analyze the video, or
analyze the audio, select the relevant checkboxes.
If you don’t set Final Cut Pro to analyze your media during the import process, you can
analyze it later (if necessary) in the Event Browser.
6 Click Import.
Final Cut Pro imports your media in the background. If you selected any options in the
previous step, Final Cut Pro transcodes and optimizes the les after the import process
is complete. You can view the progress of the background tasks in the Background
Tasks window.
Import media by dragging from the Finder
Do one of the following:
Select a le, Command-click to select multiple les, or select a folder of les, and drag m
them from the Finder to the Event.
The clip or clips appear in the Event.
Select a le, Command-click to select multiple les, or select a folder of les and drag m
them from the Finder to a Keyword Collection.
The clip or clips appear in the Event, and the keyword is automatically added to the
clip or clips.
Important: If you have the “Import folders as Keyword collections” Import preference
selected, a Keyword Collection will be created for each folder name, and the les inside
the folder will get that keyword.
Select a le or Command-click to select multiple les and drag them to your m
project’s Timeline.
The clip or clips appear in the Timeline, and in the project’s default Events folder.
The le or les are imported using your default import settings.
Access media on an archive or disk image
If you’ve created a camera archive, you can use the media in the archive in two ways:
You can connect to the camera archive, making the media available to Final Cut Pro. Â
While all available camera archives are always listed in the Camera Import window,
you can’t use any of the media in an archive until you’ve connected to the
camera archive.
You can import the media from the archive, or import media from disk images Â
previously archived with the Final Cut Pro Log and Transfer window. When you do
this, copies of the media are created on your local disk.
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