Possible to DECOMPOSE a fcp sequence like in AVID?

A quick question....
How simple is it to decompose the video of a sequence and then re-digitize the material?
I'm an Avid editor making the switch and I'm still a little hazy about fcp media management. If I load my project at lo-rez (offline photo j-peg), is it possible (like in Avid) to decompose the sequence and recapture at hi-rez just the clips from the sequence? It seems stoopid to have to ALWAYS work at hi-rez......
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark
I have typed out the critical part of the article I was referring to (from the 100 page magazine "Digital Creative Arts Australia - the Definitive Guide to Final Cut Pro").
I am essentially an absolute beginner with Final Cut Studio, and have only just completed my first simple edited project in FCP.I don’t really have too much of a clue what the article is about, except that it is saying that FCP has a similar feature to decomposing as in Avid, and offers the following advice:
“...In FCP, it’s easy to “decompose” your edited clips from the rest of your original footage. Create a new bin, then highlight all the clips in your final edited sequence, drag these into the bin you’ve just created. This will give you a bin containing only the footage used in the final edited sequence. Now select all the clips in the bin. Go to Modify>Make Online to disconnect them from off-line quality media, and choose “Delete them from the Disc”. The clips are now ready for redigitising at DV quality.
Go to File>Batch Capture to open up the Batch Capture dialog box. In this window, click the Add Handles checkbox and add a handle of however many seconds you think you’ll need. This is a wise precaution, because if you need to extend a shot when you’ve recaptured your footage at online quality, you won’t have any extra footage at the start or end of the clip if this option isn’t selected.
Click OK and FCP will recapture all your footage (with added handles). When you’ve finished capturing, go to File>Reconnect Media and the newly captured DV will be relinked...”
Regards Robert

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