Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Final Cut Express HD for Mac OS X نسخه متنی

• Final Cut Express does not import EPS files.

• Large images take longer to insert and longer to open in projects because FCE must scale them before displaying them. Really large images should be scaled in a graphics program prior to importing.

FCE Protocol: File Location Is Critical

When you import a file into a Final Cut Express project, that file is not copied into the FCE project file. Importing a file places a clip in your Browser, but that clip is a reference to the current hard disk location of your imported media file at the time you import it.

In Final Cut Express, any clip's link to its underlying media file is entirely location based. If you move media files to another disk location after you've used them in a project, you break their links to the clip references in your FCE projects. You can use the Reconnect Media command to restore those clip-to-media file links, but a little forethought before you import files can save you a lot of hassle later. (The Reconnect Media function is discussed in Chapter 4, "Projects, Sequences, and Clips.")

Before you import a file into FCE, be sure to copy it to its permanent folder location in your project's media assets directory structure. Importing files directly from a removable media storage device (such as a Zip disk) will cause your file to be marked "Offline" in your project once you remove that disk from your system. The same principle applies to audio imported from a CD.

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Choose Final Cut Express > User Preferences; or press Option-Q.

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On the Editing tab of the User Preferences window, enter a new default duration in the Still/Freeze Duration field (Figure 6.5 ).

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Click OK.