Apple M8728Z/A User Manual - Page 59
Creating a New Database Using Final Cut Pro
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• Drag one or more folders with clips from a Finder window to the Cinema Tools application icon. Note: If you drag a mixture of selected clips and folders to the application icon, a dialog appears advising you not to mix the two types of items. Dragging selected clips to the application icon does not create a new database, but opens the clips in the Clip window instead. 2 In the New Database dialog, choose default settings for your database and click OK. See Settings in the New Database Dialog for information about the settings. Note: The settings in this dialog can be left at their default values when you are creating a database from video clips and do not intend to track any film-related information in the database records. 3 In the "Create a new database" dialog, choose a location and enter a filename for the database. An empty database is created, and you are ready to enter information in it. See About Working with Database Information for more information. Important: If you created the database by dragging a folder that contains many clips, especially if they are DPX image sequences, it can take Cinema Tools a significant amount of time to process and add all of the clips to the new database. Cinema Tools may appear to have stopped responding during this time. Be sure to allow plenty of time for Cinema Tools to finish processing the folder of clips. Creating a New Database Using Final Cut Pro There are two methods you can use to create a Cinema Tools database while using Final Cut Pro: • Synchronize a set of clips with a new database. • Import a telecine log file into a new database. Synchronizing a Set of Selected Clips to Create a New Database You can use the Synchronize with Cinema Tools command if you have one or more clips in the Final Cut Pro Browser that you would like to add to a new Cinema Tools database. This can be useful when you have manually captured a set of clips but have no telecine log to go with them, or when you want to create a separate database for a set of clips already in a database. Chapter 4 Creating a Cinema Tools Database 59