Final Cut Pro 6 - Example:Recompressing Media Files for an Entire Project forEditing on a Portable Computer

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Example: Recompressing Media Files for an Entire Project
for Editing on a Portable Computer

If you need to fit a lot of media files on a relatively small hard disk, such as a portable
computer hard disk, you can recompress all your media files. This is the phase of the
offline/online workflow when you create the low-resolution, offline-quality media files
for rough editing.

This example uses the OfflineRT sequence preset, which uses the Photo JPEG codec.

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In the Browser, select all items in the project.

Press Command-A

or use the Selection tool

to select everything

in your project.

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Examples of How to Use the Media Manager

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In the Media Manager, choose the following options, then click OK.