Just found a nice read at a nice blog I’d never seen before:

MEDIA MANAGING TO SMALLER SIZES

The media manager in Final Cut Pro is a powerful utility that doesn’t get as much mention as the other, sexier features that the suite has to offer. It allows one to recompress footage for offline editing or manage all the media for archival purposes.

Back in the day (pre-HD) I used to use the media manager to delete unused media from projects and collect it all in a folder that I could burn to a DVD-ROM for archival. Long gone are those days of under-4 GB projects, so now I use the media manager to manage to archival hard drives which I shelf safely for later use.

Offlining is useful to recompress HD footage to a smaller file format (Offline HD is a Photo JPEG codec file format). This makes the file size small for editing / delivering / taking on the road. How nice to leave your Terabyte of HD footage on your array at home and just take a few GB of footage with you somewhere on your laptop to edit.

Stay tuned to the Mac Mediacast for a tutorial on this great feature in Final Cut Pro.

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