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777Final Cut Pro User Guide
4. Click the Field Dominance Override pop-up menu and choose one of the following:
• Progressive: The video is displayed in complete frames with all lines sampled at the
same instant in time.
• Upper First: The video is interlaced and displayed as two separate interleaved fields.
The field containing the top line is sampled at an earlier instant in time than the field
containing the bottom line. This field order is commonly used for high-definition
(HD) video and standard-definition (SD) PAL video.
• Lower First: The video is interlaced and displayed as two separate interleaved fields.
The field containing the bottom line is sampled at an earlier instant in time than the
field containing the top line. This field order is commonly used for SD NTSC video.
Locate source media files in Final Cut Pro
You can locate the original source media file or proxy file (on your Mac or storage device)
for any clip in your library.
1. In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event that contains the clip.
2. Select the clip in the browser.
3. Do one of the following:
• Locate the original source media file: Choose File > Reveal in Finder (or press Shift-
Command-R).
• Locate the proxy file: Choose File > Reveal Proxy Media in Finder.
A Finder window opens, with the file selected.
You can also quickly find the source event clip for any clip in the timeline. See Find a
project clip’s source clip in Final Cut Pro.
Relink clips to media files in Final Cut Pro
In Final Cut Pro, clips represent your media, but they are not the media files themselves
(see Media files and clips in Final Cut Pro). Final Cut Pro keeps track of the links between
clips and media files automatically.
However, there are times when you need to manually relink clips to media files:
• When files are altered or re-created outside of your copy of Final Cut Pro: For example,
if you send files out for color correction, you may need to relink the clips in your event
to the color-corrected versions of the files when you receive them.
• When media files are missing: If you move or rename externally linked files in the Finder,
or if you move an event or a project to a different location, you need to relink the event
or project clips (which appear as red frames with yellow alert triangles) to the files.
In either case, manually relinking connects the clips in Final Cut Pro to the correct files on
your Mac or storage device.
You can relink either original source media files or proxy files. The relinked files must
include all the media in the referenced clips and must be the same media type (for
example, video or audio), have the same frame rate, and have similar audio channels.
Note: You can’t undo the Relink Files command.