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788Final Cut Pro User Guide
Create a proxy-only project for offline editing
1. In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event that contains your project.
2. In the browser, select the project, then choose File > Copy [item] to Library > New
Library.
Note: To make a proxy-only version of an event or a library, select it in the Libraries
sidebar.
3. Enter a name for the new library, choose a location for it, and click Save.
4. In the window that appears, select Media in the Include section, then select the “Proxy
media” checkbox.
5. In the Media Destination section, click Modify Settings and choose a storage location
for the new library, then click OK.
Important: If a window appears with the option to generate proxy media for clips in the
project, click Transcode.
Final Cut Pro copies the item you selected and its proxy media to the new library’s
storage location (or generates the proxy media at that location). The new library
appears in the Libraries sidebar.
Note: File types that don’t support proxy media (audio, video with an alpha channel, and
still images) are copied to the new library’s storage location in their original format.
6. Open the project in the new library.
7. Click the View pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the viewer, and choose either
Proxy Only or Proxy Preferred in the Media Playback section.
Missing File alert icons may appear in the browser, timeline, and viewer if Media
Playback is set to Optimized/Original. See
Control playback quality in Final Cut Pro.
For more information about setting the library storage location, see Set storage locations in
Final Cut Pro.
Relink a proxy-only project to original or optimized media
You can return a proxy-only project to the original library and reunite it with its original or
optimized media.
1. In the Final Cut Pro browser, rename the proxy-only project (to distinguish it from the
original project), then drag it to an event in the original library.
See Copy or move items between libraries in Final Cut Pro.
2. In the window that appears, select “Project without media” in the Include section.
Note: If you added new media to the project and want the new media to be copied to
the original library, select Media in the Include section, then select the “Original media”
checkbox.
A copy of the project appears in the event, automatically connected to the relevant
original or optimized media.