Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual download pdf (Page 45)

You can create separate bins for organizing clips by movie scene, source tape, or any

other category. You can organize bins hierarchically and open them in their own windows.

You can even put bins inside other bins. There is no limit to the number of bins you can

have in your project, or the number of items you can store in each bin.

Bins exist only in project files. Changes you make to the contents of a bin, such as deleting,

moving, and renaming clips or renaming the bin itself, have no effect on the original

media files stored on your computer’s hard disk. If you delete a clip from a bin, the clip’s

media file is not deleted from the hard disk. Likewise, creating a new bin does not create

a new folder on your hard disk.

Working with Projects

How you use and organize your projects depends on the scope of your movie as well as

your particular organizational style. These factors also affect your decision to use one or

more sequences in your project.

Organizing Your Projects

Typically, you create a new project file for each movie you work on, regardless of its

duration. For example, if you’re working on a documentary about a bicycle manufacturing

company, you would create a project for it. If you’re also working on an industrial training

video about how to fix bicycles, that would be a second, separate project. Both projects

could conceivably refer to some of the same media, but they are completely independent

structures, each with its own clips, bins, and sequences.

Very large movie projects, such as feature films and documentaries with high shooting

ratios (meaning most of the footage shot during production will not be used in the final

movie), may contain thousands of clips. Although the number of clips and sequences

you can store in a project is theoretically unlimited, Final Cut Pro may take longer to

search, sort, and update if there are too many clips. If you find that managing your project

is becoming difficult, you can always break one project into several for the early editing

stages.

Using More Than One Sequence in a Project

For some projects, it makes sense to use several different sequences within the project.

You can use sequences in several ways, including:

• Sequences as scenes: Break a movie into a series of separate sequences for each scene.

• Sequences as versions: Edit different versions of the same movie, with each as its own

sequence. Examples are a television commercial with several alternative sound mixes,

or a documentary cut to feature film length as well as broadcast television length.

• Sequences for special effects: This allows you to separate elaborate effects shots in

separate sequences so you can render them separately.

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