User Guide

Chapter 6 Working with Final Cut Pro Projects 125
If you are checking out the project to a computer that is connected to the
Final Cut Server network (for example, a portable computer that you carry between
your work and your home), you do not need to include the linked media in your
checkout. This is because the media files are stored in the computer’s Final Cut Server
cache. The checked out Final Cut Pro project will reference the media files that are
stored on your local computer, the same computer that you have carried home to edit
with. After checking out the project, you can carry your computer home and edit the
checked out project while you are not connected to the Final Cut Server network.
When you go back to work the next day, you can log in to Final Cut Server and check in
the edited project.
If you are checking the project out to an external drive, you must include the linked
media in your checkout. You do this by selecting the Keep Media with Project checkbox
in the Check Out window. Because the Final Cut Server cache is stored on your local
computer, a project that is checked out to an external drive will not have access to the
media files that are used in the Final Cut Pro project. Including the media in your
checkout location provides those files.
To check out a Final Cut Pro project to a portable computer for editing while not
connected to the Final Cut Server network:
1 Log in to Final Cut Server using the computer on which you want to check out the project.
2 In Final Cut Server, locate the Final Cut Pro project asset that you want to check out.
3 Do one of the following:
 Select the Final Cut Pro project, then click the Check Out button in the Toolbar.
 Control-click the Final Cut Pro project, then choose Check Out from the shortcut menu.
4 In the Check Out Final Cut Pro window, choose a location to save the checked out
Final Cut Pro project to by clicking the Choose button and identifying a location in the
file browser.
Note: To avoid losing track of checked out projects, you can create a “Checked
out Final Cut Server projects” or similar folder on the desktop or in another
convenient location.
5 Click the Check Out button.
The Final Cut Pro project asset is marked with the checkout icon in Final Cut Server. The
project and its linked media files are downloaded to your Final Cut Server cache
location, and an alias to the cached copy of the Final Cut Pro project is created in the
location you specified in the Check Out Final Cut Pro Project window.