ORGANIZE VIDEO FILES & LIBRARIES FOR BETTER VIDEO EDITING IN FCPX
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Hey filmmakers! Organization is something i've always struggled with when video editing, but after 8 years in FCPX, i've finally figured out a solution that is quick and easy! Today I'm sharing how I organize my video files, folders and libraries in Final Cut Pro X. This is just my process which I've developed after finding things getting messy when working on bigger projects in Final Cut Pro X.
Organizing your footage is essential to create a seamless Final Cut Pro workflow!
In this video, I will teach you how and when to use libraries, events, and projects!. Hopefully this video will save you some time and effort in your video editing workflow!
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next week! :)
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such a great vid! thanks! what external hard drives are those?
oh listened again. got it thanks
Your charisma and excitement to help is absolutely infectious! You shared so many outstanding tips and this video was EXACTLY what I was looking for as I get started on my editing journey before I launch my channel! I subscribed and liked! Looking forward to more content from you!
Thank you for sharing! Love to see more BTS editing processes, tips related content. Also, May I know do you store inspiration files? like those good references that you tend to use in your future project? Can you share it with us too?
I'm using this tool called eagle where it's great for previewing all my footage assets, sound asset collection at different speeds with hovering, and make annotations on it. I find it very useful, you should try it too! en.eagle.cool
The problem with placing all project files in the library is that the file path needs to remain in the motion templates folder in order to save animated features. I learned that the hard way. It's good to see that I'm not the only one moving so slowly towards better organization. Great tips here. Thanks.
Nice description and good info. New Libraries for each project is the key. Plus renaming each camera file is super important. Thanks again.
Love it dude. Backup is key!
Thanks so much for this! I've been using FCPX for over a year and have always had such cluttered libraries.
This was amazing, so clear and so informative, thank you so much!!!
What a great video. Thanks man. Just realized that I’ve been organizing my Libraries wrong all this time.
Thanks for watching!! ✌🏼
That’s a really good tip to create a new library for each project, that way the library can live within your file system. Thanks for this!
Marc, This was incredibly helpful! Thanks so much.
I’m glad to hear it! Thanks for the support man!
Great info, Trying to clean up my FCP library Nightmare:')
You opened my eyes up to creating 15, and 30 second versions of your videos that adds so many possibilities. for later use while the project editing is still fresh in your mind before you archive it. That along with the file naming tips Good stuff thank you.
Great video! These tips are super helpful for me since I’m just starting to learn FCPX
Yes! Can’t wait to see your approach to this Marc
Matt Scobel thanks bro! Let me know what you think!
Loved the office setup and lighting. Great tips re: splitting up libraries and renaming those awful C001 Sony files. Have you found a good system for collaborating on actual FCP libraries?
Matt Scobel thanks man! We actually did this on this project. Basically cause we all had the same hard drives with the same file names. I was able to upload my library to Dropbox. Was about 2gb when all files were deleted. Then Brayden was able to open it up with no issues. Not a perfect system, but it worked!
Lots of great information!! Thanks very much:)
Dude it’s been a while! Good to see Ya on here! Nice to see your breakdown of how you organize.
Paul Feinberg how are you doing man?
Marc Webster great 👍🏻 I work for the school system so I am fine, just “working from home” and watching my 2 year old around the house. Harder to get TH-cam content done, but it’s been great time with my little guy. Have a lot of house projects going on as well since I have been home all the time for them to get done without taking off work. Hope you are doing well!
Holly sheeeeet this was so helpful THANK YOU
Hey man thanks for this vid! Super helpful. I'm a huge Adobe Premiere user but transitioning to FCPX for the insanely fast export times and performance. I always feel so unorganized and so confused by file management in FCPX but this vid cleared up a lot for me!
Extremely helpful. Thank you.
Thanks Marc - well done.
Brilliant advice, thank you!
so helpful!! thank you!
Good knowledge here!
I really liked that video and it is SO important to be organised on bigger Projects if not ALL projects...
Thanks! I am just getting started with FCPX and sitting down to edit for the first time on this SW. Got confused on project vs event.
Great video! Thank you!
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!
John330vids thanks for watching John!
Marc...I really enjoyed this. I've always been confused about how to stay organized, as I'm a relative newbie to 'video' and FCPX, having come over from 'audio production', primarily. Pardon my naivety, but My question involves your response to someone else's question ("I always leave all my media in folders and never copy to library!") I'm not sure I understand? For me, I import all my media (audio and video) into mu project. Is that 'copying to the library'? I think it would be great to watch you do a video on starting a sort of sample project from scratch....from importing, saving, bouncing over to your H-D, etc. (in fact, my MacBook Pro is exhausting its hard drive space, and I'm sure it's because of my FCPX projects. I have plenty of external hard drives...I'm just not sure exactly how to utilize them efficiently.). Thanks, Marc!
Thank youuuu for this
Omg i always searched for a Video like this..
That's great to hear!!
Marc Webster Thanks! Never knew how to handle libraries and where to Store and edit on..
Ben If you have any more questions, feel free to send me a message on instagram @marcwebster :)
Great video!!
Great video! Thanks!
So organized! I can learn from.this hahah.
Jumping over to FCPX now?
Thank you so much for the help Marc, this video is awesome. I know that fcpx creates auto backups into a movies folder on your computer. Do you move the location of the final cut backup to a specific folder? Sorry, I hope that makes sense. I have been looking all around trying to figure this out and haven't found a straight forward answer yet. Thanks!
Great video! Any tips for organizing B-Roll that you might want to use across multiple future projects?
loved your video! Marc how about creating a pdf with the instructions you talked about hon this video? That would be so awesome! Thanks for your time!
This was so helpful! Thank you. P.S. Your audio sounds great!! I hope all of your loved ones are safe. 🙂
Thank you! I've always struggled with my audio so I'm glad it sounds good!
Marc Webster You’re welcome! I think you may have mastered it. 😉
That's made my weekend, thank you, precise, no waffle, perfect. Why did you make an event called project, I though all events were named after cameras, drone etc:
I learned something new today. Thanks... FYI, When Renaming in my computer, I had three choices when clicked on Rename. The first option that popped up wasn't the correct one. The correct choice is FORMAT; to be able to do what you are teaching.. Again, THANKS FOR SHARING...
UNDERCOVER Attorney yes that is correct! Once you switch it to format, it should stay like that!
Hi Marc, great video and very helpful. Quick question. Is there a way to save just the clips from a previous project and not all the raw footage?
Very helpful video
I do a library for each TH-cam video, but I find myself going back to previous videos more and more to use past footage. Do you have any tips or tricks for putting everything in a master library to make it easier to find things?
when i leave files in place how do i make sure music files are saved without having to copy them/ re download them when reusing in other projects?
Hi, tks for your video. So in your TH-cam Channel the Library is your "Channel Marc Webster" and each TH-cam Video would be an Event, Video 01, Video 02 ...?
thank you mucho
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Thanks Mark for the helpful content. I will love to know the software you used to record yourself and screen simultaneously.
I just use my camera and then QuickTime, then edit them together
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Ik this video is more related to final cut organization but I thought I would ask anyways. Do you create lightroom catalogs within each of your photo folders? Also ik Final Cut Pro automatically makes backups. Do you just store those locally on your MacBook or do you store them on the external hard drive your editing off. Thanks for the help!
I just use 1 catalog for all my photos unless there’s an event like a wedding with thousands of photos then I will have a separate one. I put a 2tb ssd in my computer so I keep all photos on my computer. Videos are all stored on hard drives
Hi! Two questions please:
1) How can i use/access/browse video clips that are stored on an external disk? Most of my videos are stored on my internal disk, and my fcpx library is also created and stored internally. But I have many videos I want to be able to add to my timeline/project that are on an ext disk. So I want to be able to carry on working like I did (all internally), but also be able to browse/access the vids on my ext disk and drag them onto my project directly via fcpx so I can try them and see if I'll keep them in my project if I like them.
2) If I do like them after I've added them to my project (directly from my ext disk), will the video clips (that I had dragged into my project) have automatically been saved into my - internally stored - fcpx project library? Meaning, if I then unplug the ext disk will fcpx still have the video clips in my project; or will I need to then copy the specific source files I liked into my internal disk so that fcpx will have them after I have unplugged the ext disk?
Thanks!!! :)
But how do you organize it while you're importing from Google Drive or DropBox?
To clarify for the majority of your projects do you copy the media to a library or leave it in folders or does it depend on the size of the project?
Also, if you transfer your library directly to a hard drive then a month later want to edit it again, can you just transfer it back on your computer and open fcp and you can start editing?
Thanks 😀(imma FCP X noob btw)
I always leave all my media in folders and never copy to library! I find it much easier to manage and see everything. And yes if I have to re-edit a project I will copy the folder back to my desktop, make my edits. When project is done move it back off!
great video , but tell me, how to go about saving old hdv cassette?
you really need to get your self a Synology NAS
I have one :)
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Jose N that’s one positive of the situation! :) thanks for the support!
IT'S IN THE DROPBOX
Jay R. McDonald it’s always in the dropbox!!
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@@MarcWebster done and done
Jesus Homie.... 3:38 in and still haven't gotten into the organization...
I don't understand the difference in FCP of a "project" and an "event". They seem like they're the same thing.
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Isn't it confusing to call an Event, "Projects" when FCP uses "Projects" for the movies? (Dumb, I know!)
I would highly recommend deleting ALL render files, instead of UNUSED ONLY. Re-Rendering, in most scenarios won't be such a terrible hassle. Most projects we generally never re-open. So why waste all that precious hard drive space ;)!