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492Final Cut Pro User Guide
In addition, the Save Current Frame, Image Sequence, and HTTP Live Streaming
destinations allow you to burn in captions so they’re permanently visible, but they don’t
support exporting captions as separate files or embedding captions. See the following
topics:
• Export still images with Final Cut Pro
• Export image sequences with Final Cut Pro
• Export live-streaming files with Final Cut Pro
Group clips with compound clips
Intro to compound clips in Final Cut Pro
With Final Cut Pro, you can create compound clips, which allow you to group any
combination of clips in the timeline or the browser and nest clips within other clips.
Compound clips can contain video and audio clip components, clips, and other compound
clips. Effectively, each compound clip can be considered a mini project, with its own
distinct project properties. Compound clips function just like other clips: you can add them
to your project, trim them, retime them, and add effects and transitions. Icons appear on
compound clips in the browser and the timeline.
Compound clips have many uses. You can:
• Simplify a complicated project by creating a separate compound clip for each major
section.
• Sync a video clip with one or more audio clips and then combine the clips into a
compound clip, to avoid inadvertently moving them out of sync.
• Open any clip, edit its contents in the timeline, and then close it.
• Quickly create a compound clip containing the clips in an event, based on the browser
sort order.
• Use a compound clip to create a section of a project with settings different from those
of the main project.