Chapter 6. Managing Your Media Files

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Moving media files

• Copying a borrowed clip's media

• Sharing clips/backing-up clips

• Consolidating Subclips

• Consolidating Sequences

• Transcoding Sequences for archiving or before up-res

• Transcoding Sequences of mixed SD and HD video

• Changing the Sample Rate of clips in bin before editing them into your Sequence

• Changing the mismatched audio that has been edited into your Sequence

• Prevent editing with audio that does not match the Project's Sample Rate

• Setting the Media Tool display

• Borrowing a clip from another Project

• How to determine where media files are stored and how to move them

• Isolating video of a specifc resolution

• Deleting specific media files from clips (for example, just the A3 and A4 files)

• Deleting unused media files: Just Master Clips, just Precomputes, or both

• Locking Clips and Sequences

• Locking Sequences to make them less easily editable