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# Published Media

Publishing consists of exposing managed or unmanaged media to a location accessible by other applications. Once published, the media is still being referenced in a clip library, just like any other clip, but automatically becomes soft-imported and unmanaged media. If the publish destination resides on the same volume and if the format of the published files is the same as the original file format, hard links to the managed media can be created as an option. This media is accessible to Lustre and unmanaged by the Effects and Finishing application.

If you are accessing media residing on a direct attached storage over a slow network connection via Wiretap, you may choose to publish your media to a shared network storage, which allows Lustre to access the media through a fast network storage connection. See Sample Workflows.