Publishing a Clip Using the Publish Tool

Inputting and Outputting Media > Processing and Publishing >

When you publish a clip, the media is written to the destination on the shared storage and another clip is created that points to the newly created media on the shared storage. You can use the Publish tool to maintain soft edits. Three publishing options are available: Complex, Simple, and Flatten. When you publish soft-imported media, you can also decide whether or not to link directly to the source media located on the same filesystem. If you do not link to the source media, a new copy of the files is created, which requires more space on the filesystem.

To publish a clip:

In the clip library, click Tools.
From the Tools box, select Publish.
The Publish controls appear.
In the clip library, select the clips that you want to publish.
From the Publish Type box, select the publish type.
The displayed options differ depending on the publish type selected. See About the Publish Tool.
Set any other Publish options using the corresponding controls.
In the Publish Destination field, enter the shared storage directory.
From the Destination Library box, select a destination library.
NoteIf your clips are not rendered and you press Alt+Tab (to toggle shells), after you click Publish Clip, corrupted frames may result.
Click Publish.
The clip is published to the selected library as follows:
- A new clip is published in the library, named <clip name>_published, which references a published image sequence.
- Each frame of the clip is published as part of a sequentially-numbered image sequence at the destination directory, where file names are <clip name>.######.ex.
An icon indicating the file type appears in the lower-right corner of the clip. If the same file exists, you are asked if you want to overwrite it or abort the process.

(a) Published clip

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NoteA published clip does not have history. Accessing history for a newly published clip may cause a system crash.