View a clip’s information in Final Cut Pro for Mac

The Info inspector provides a summary of a clip’s information. Here you can view status information about a clip’s source media file, including the file’s location, available media representations for the file, the event the clip is located in, and the event the clip references.

The Info inspector showing information for a selected clip
  1. Select a clip in the Final Cut Pro browser or timeline.

  2. If the inspector isn’t already shown, do one of the following:

    • Choose Window > Show in Workspace > Inspector (or press Command-4).

    • Click the Inspector button on the right side of the toolbar.

      The Inspector button in the toolbar
  3. Click the Info button at the top of the inspector.

    The Info button

    Tip: Double-click the top bar of the inspector to switch between half-height view and full-height view.

  4. In the Info inspector, scroll down to view the file information.

    The Info inspector showing file information

For information about using optimized or proxy media for playback, see Control playback quality. For more general information about optimized and proxy media, see Create optimized and proxy files.

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