User Guide

18 Chapter 2 Getting to Know Your Editing Environment
Organizing Your Clips in the Browser
The Browser is the central storage area where you organize all of the source material
you’ll use in your project. To organize your media so you can work efficiently, you need
to understand the basic organizational elements of Final Cut Express HD—projects,
sequences, clips, and bins—and how they relate to the Browser.
What Is a Project?
A project contains all the clips, sequences, and file references you use while editing
your movie. All of these appear in a project’s tab in the Browser. Although the source
media files for your project are actually stored on your computer’s hard disk in a
location different from the project file, you use the Browser to help organize and
manage the clips and sequences used by your project.
There is no limit to the number of items that can be stored in the Browser. You can have
multiple projects open in the Browser at one time. Each project appears in its own tab.
Project
Clip
Project
Sequence
Bin
Project
My Project
Audio clip
Video clip
Still image
Sequence
ABC