86 Chapter 4 Using the Log and Transfer Window
Using the Transfer Queue
The Transfer Queue shows a list of clips currently queued for ingest. The status of
each clip is shown and a progress bar indicates how much of a clip’s media has
already been ingested.
You can pause or restart ingest at any time by clicking the Pause button or by pressing
Command-Control-Q.
Important: Ingesting clips always makes a copy of your media by extracting it from the
original storage media and copying it to a new QuickTime file on your scratch disk. For
example, if you ingest 4 GB of DVCPRO HD footage from a P2 folder on your hard disk,
an additional 4 GB of disk space is required for the QuickTime movie file. In cases where
your source footage is transcoded, the resulting QuickTime movie can be significantly
larger than the original.

Adding Clips to the Transfer Queue for Ingest

There are many ways to add clips to the Transfer Queue for ingest:
mIn the Browse area, select one or more clips, then click Add Selection to Queue.
mDrag one or more clips from the Browse area to the Transfer Queue.
mDrag a volume from the Browse area to the Transfer Queue. All clips on the volume are
added to the Transfer Queue at once.
mIn the Preview area, click the Add Clip to Queue button.
Note: When you click the Add Clip to Queue button, only the clip that appears in the
Preview area is added to the Transfer Queue.
mClick in the video image in the Preview area and drag the image to the Transfer Queue.
Click to reveal the current
logging bin in the Browser. Progress bar
Pause button
Thumbnail Resize slider
The Status column shows
the ingest status.