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# Publishing a Clip Using the Publish Tool

Publish a clip so that you can collaborate with others on the same media.

When you publish a clip, the media is written to the destination on the shared storage. Another clip is generated that soft-imports the newly created media on the shared storage.

You see changes in the published clip when other users in other applications change the published media. For example, if a user uses a paint program to modify the content of one of the files in the shared storage and replaces the file with the modifications, you see these changes in your clip. If you are using proxies, regenerate the proxies to see the changes made in other applications. See .Regenerating Proxies.

If you change the clip in Smoke, users outside of Smoke are not be able to see these changes. Republish the clip for users to see changes you make.

NoteIf published media contains source files that are deleted or moved, the frames of the missing files are replaced with a checkerboard.

To publish a clip:

1. Access the Publish menu from the clip library. See Accessing the Publish Menu.
2. In the clip library, select the clips that you want to publish.
3. From the Publish Type box, select the publish type.
4. Set any other Publish options using the corresponding controls. See About the Publish Menu Options.
5. In the Destination field, enter the location for the published files.
6. From the Destination Library box, select a library for the published clip.
   NoteIf your clips are not rendered, do not press Alt+Tab after you click Publish. Your application uses the output of your graphics card to render the final image file. If there are any other application windows on top of your Smoke window, undesired artefacts may appear in your rendered image files.
7. Click Publish.

   A new clip is published in the clip library, which references the published image sequence. This clip is also identified by a soft-imported icon in the lower-right corner, indicating that its media resides outside the framestore.

   Each frame of the clip is published to the destination directory. See Naming Published Files.

   (a) Published clip

   Images courtesy of Behavior Communications Inc.

   NoteA published clip does not have history.