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Chapter 15 Managemediales 491
Note: It is recommended that you save your archive to a disk or partition dierent
from the one where you store the media les used with Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro begins archiving from the current location on the tape. It will continue to
archive until one of the following occurs:
It reaches the end of the tape. Â
You manually stop the archiving process by clicking Stop Import or Close (to close Â
the Camera Import window).
The camera archive is stored on your hard disk. You can mount the archive as if it were
a le-based camcorder and browse the archive’s contents, or import the media on
the camera archive into Final Cut Pro. For more information, see “Access media on an
archive or disk image” on page 42.
Whenever the disk containing the archive is connected, the disk will automatically
appear in the Camera Archives list in Final Cut Pro as long as the archive is in one of
two locations:
/Users/ Â username/Movies/Final Cut Camera Archives/
The root level of the startup disk Â
Move or copy a camera archive
1 In the Finder, select the camera archive that you want to move or copy.
2 Do one of the following:
 To move the camera archive on your local disk: Drag the camera archive to a
new location.
 To copy the camera archive on your local disk: Hold down the Option key and drag
the camera archive to a new location on your local disk.
 To copy the camera archive to an external storage disk: Drag the camera archive to a
location on the external storage disk.
Delete a camera archive
Camera archives are very small relative to other media les, and often don’t warrant
being deleted. However, you can delete a camera archive at any time.
1 In the Finder, select the camera archive.
2 Hold down the Control key and choose Move to Trash from the shortcut menu
that appears.
3 Control-click or click and hold the Trash icon in your Dock, and choose Empty Trash
from the shortcut menu.
Important: Emptying the Trash permanently deletes the camera archive.