Import and organise footage, folders and libraries - Final Cut Pro X
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- If you're new to Final Cut Pro X, we'll show you what the difference is between a Library, an Event and a Project when importing your footage into FCPX.
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I watched 4 videos on this topic and yours was the most clear and logical. Thanks.
Agreed.
same. I totally agree
Only a quarter way through and I can already tell that this is the exact kind of video I need. Clear, concise, organized... You sir have a new fan for sure. Thanks so much dude!
I am a long time digital artist (30+ years) and I could not find any video that actually explained FCP Libraries/events/projects clearly for me, until this one. Very good! Thank you!
Ive been watching confusing clips all day, until I’ve seen yours. Made things so much clearer. Thank you!
Glad it helped!
@@TotallyExposed since then, I’ve also jumped on your channel and watched a load more, which have also been a massive help. Keep up the good work lads.
That’s what I love about Final Cut. That it takes you longer to import everything than actual editing
I'm a noob in FCX and this video helped me immensely. Thank you!!
Awesome, glad it helped! James
Thank you for explaining that so clearly. The FCPX file system confuses me but i think i will approach it as you have in the future
The best, most comprehensive video I've seen on the matter so far. Thanks a million!
thanks a million. the first days using fcpx after years of premiere pro the whole library/mediathek looked like a mess to me. you cleared it up the best way possible, all understood now. thanks million.
Thank you for explaining this so clearly. I felt overwhelmed in FCPX even though I had watched many other videos on the topic - after your video I feel prepared and grounded. You're a natural teacher 🙏
You're very welcome! Thanks very much
My current problem is not understanding how to keep my assets--like backing music, front and rear-end video logos, and logo/bug--easily accessible from one episode of our talk show to the next..... What I have been doing is copying the folder from each previous episode to the next, renaming it and replacing those files (like footage) in order to prep for the new episode. I KNOW there's probably an easier and a more efficient way to do this, so I am in search of that solution..... Thanks for confirming that I need to start a new library for each TYPE of video project (i.e. vlogs, music videos, and talk show episodes), as that is what I had figured out after just winging it for about a year....
really good explanation, best one so far for all the same topics I've watched! Thank you very much!
Finally a clear guide to this - I really think Apple stuffed this part of the program up. It's a mess. Thanks very much for this, it was driving me mad coming from Adobe.
Thank you for being so clear, and knowing what are you talking about!
It doesn't happen often, but thanks!
Seriously, your channel is "under subbed". Love the way you lay out information. Very straight-forward and informative. I am modeling my libraries like yours. Thank you again!
Thanks very much 👍
Thank you! Finally found the way to organize. Thumbs up!
Thanks James. Very concise. Very helpful. Crunchy and chewy too. HIghly recommended for all cats. Whoops. But... ta: nicely done!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much !!!! Life changing. Your video was the best and man I feel like a pro now I was going everything sooooo wrong lol. Thanks !
Very concise and to the point tutorial. This is going to make my life way easier during editing. Thanks!
Amazingly simple and to the point. Thank you.
Are you referring to James, or the tutorial 🤣
Great video and explanation. I'm just starting out with FCPX so this is super helpful 👍
Love your lighting! Info is very helpful!
Thank you SO MUCH for "demystifying" all the Final Cut Pro jargon.
What you want to know probably starts at 6:21
this is a very helpful video bro! cheers!
Awesome Video - like everyone else - yours stood out and was super clear on how the 3 different things are used... Love 'Deliverables' THANKS
Awesome, thank you!
2 years later, beginner myself see this as common sense, but it makes sense only having seen it. thanks.
Your logic is superb. Saved me some time for sure.
Excellent workflow suggestions. I'll adopt them wholeheartedly.Suits my way of working well. Thanks for taking the time to clarify things. Great Tutorial!
Thank you!
thanks James this FCP labyrinth is starting to make sense now.
Thank you James, this was really enjoyable to watch and learn from. Much appreciated
very helpful!! especially for someone who's new to FCP but experienced in Premiere, thank you!
Just installed Final Cut Pro and your video was really a life saver 👌
Glad we could help! Check out our latest releases which talk you through working with Audio in FCPX and also about Colour Grading.
@@TotallyExposedyeah sure🙂 Thank you.
Finally, I found someone I can follow all the way through every step. Much appreciated!
I’ve spent all night trying to work out the structure and you’ve made it so simple to understand without jargon. I left Premier to Resolve and now trying Final Cut... all I need to figure out is why everything is so much slower and file sizes double every few hours !
Nice one man! Just upgraded to an imac from a macbook and time for a fresh start on how I structure projects, thanks for the video will be going with this approach! Before I imported all my media into the library and every time a library got bloated I would start a new one 😆cheers!
Good one! Structure is always great. I'll apply your ideas in the next project!
Very well explained, mate. Thank you so much. I've been using FCPX since the first version but I never take the time to understand how to work with Libraries.
This helped demystify Apple's bizarre structure. Thank you for sharing!
Great video. Watched a couple of these and this is by far the most well explained one out there
BANG ON! Exactly what I was looking for. Simple but effective.
Clear and concise. Thanks!
This was really helpful. Thank you for explaining that so clearly. Cheers!!
Very helpful. Liked. Subscribed. Thank you!
Such a great help for someone starting out! Thank you so much! 💪
THANK YOU SIR! Nice information
I've switched over from premier, the imac fcp file system was weirdly confusing, thank you for simplifying!!
Really helpful video, thanks!
This is a start. I was editing in Imovie before and never had organization issues. I've seen videos like this and I thought I could start. This video is fairly clear, but I'm still frustrated. I started editing a video, but I want to start another video now. I can't seem to name my timeline, and there's a bunch of different timelines depending on the time I was editing. I just want to start editing a different timeline for now, but feel like I need to finish and export before doing anything other timelines. Ugh
Very Helpful thank you!
Thank you! Very helpful for me~!👍
Look forward to more tutorial videos
Thanks! We have another one dropping today focussing more on colour grading 👌
Lovely video. Well explained. Thanks Totally Exposed
Cheers Mate. Great little Tutorial!
Thank you - very helpful!
Thank you sir for an awesome video. This is exactly what I was looking for to help me better organize my approach to making YT vids. Happy to sub a great channel!
Awesome, glad it helped!
You might also be interest a little free Mac (and Windows) app called Post Haste! "Post Haste is a free project management tool that allows you to setup file and folder templates for your projects. Create a new project and everything's organized, ready for you to start."
Thank you very much for your video and that was very helpfull.
Glad we could help 👍
Very clear, thanks!
thank you so much for your video. Merci!!!
well explained. subcribed!
Great video! It still baffles me that Final Cut goes through all of this... and for what? Mac already has Finder why do we need a separate organization system with different functions and names. This is by far the most confusing thing about switching from Premier to Final Cut. I wish they would leave the organization up to us, and for the newbies, let them use iMovie. GRRRR!
What song did you use for the background Audio? sounds great
yesss!
First and foremost, health and peace to you. Now a compliment, then a question. Excellent explanation of your organizational strategy. Question, at the beginning (:47) you show a Finder window that indicates you are on your Macbook. At (1:17) when you start to create the folder structure in the Finder you say you edit off of an SSD, but the screen shows your MacBook highlighted in the Finder. Then you click on the _workspace folder. Is that folder, _workspace, a shortcut from the desktop or someplace else, like the SSD-HD? Any clarification is appreciated.
Oh God, give me back my 'bins' from the Final Cut Express days!! Anyway, now that I'm about to go "Final Cut Pro X" is it possible to import my projects (editing stage), and since many of my 'dailies' were shot on Digital 8 tapes, will FCP-X allow me to import them to the library?
Thank you bro
It helpes me indeed.
Thank you, your video help me a lots!
Delivery for finals, where would you put rough cuts etc.?
man... thank you so much !
Hi, I completed a project under a new library and trying to upload with TH-cam but I can’t see it anywhere like I used to. Now it just shows the new purple library icon and when I look inside the icon for context they are just stars and softener format? Please help if you can
Thank you!
When I import I find it imports with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The files are all HD and don’t have this aspect ratio in the main folder on the desktop. What am I doing wrong? When I try change the project setting to ensure 1080p it doesn’t make any difference to the clips in the project.
I’m super confused. I’ve keep all my footage on my camera 1tb SSD and prefer to keep it all on there. So with all this library/event/project thing does FCPX save everything onto my computer? It seems you bring your footage onto your computer form your camera before creating libraries am I correct?
It’ll mean I’ll fill up my computer? When I create a new event I see it suggests saving it under “movies”. When I trialled Resolve it seems easy just to work straight off the SSD. How do I do that with FCPX? I found myself getting lost from the get go ha. I just don’t want footage replicated everywhere on my computer. Rather work off the SSD and manage that.
That’s a subscribe from me. Nice!
Can you tell me that the best external DVD WRITER drive it for my Mac please
Always wondered, now ive got it!
Amazin' Thanks!
Glad you like it!
totally awesome!
Thank you!
Very helpful, thank you. The music makes it quite hard to concentrate on what you're saying though!
THANK YOU.
OMG I'm so tired of opening FCPX and not being able to locate the project before the one on the timeline! Please help. Where do the videos go? I only see the parts I used to create this 20 minute video. I need to add a voice over to one part of a video I created 2 days ago, but when I open FCPX I only see the current project. I'm not sure why this is so overly complicated. I feel like I waste a lot of creative time on situation like these. I cannot find my project! Argh
Okay, I'm back 5 minutes later. I found the project somewhere it didn't belong. I really need to understand how to organize and save videos I'm working on when I'm done or switch over to a new project. I'm not understanding how they are saving. I'm going to watch your video a few more times.
Goood job 👏
this right here
I FUCKING LOVE THIS BROO
In FCPX - Create "Library" - locate to Building set.
Should I make a new library for every new TH-cam video I make?
It's entirely up to you and how you want to manage your workflow. But that's how we do it, yes.
Proj.. Deliverable!
thank you bro
WATCH THIS PREMIERE TO FINAL CUT USERS; LIFE SAVING!
Going from Premiere to Final Cut this was so approachable, so useful, so life saving for a job I am starting tomorrow. Do you have other Final Cut focused videos that translate based on Premiere languag-ing? Other questions, if you don't mind... What are "Folders," used for in Final Cut? And do you have a video that goes over what "Smart Collections," are in Final Cut?
you should have more subs
Yep, like it too. This whole confusion cleared out by giving everything a common, recognizable name, that makes things much easier. I wonder what the FCP-X developers were trying to prove: reinventing the wheel? or Let's drive everybody insane withe this newby LibraryEventProjects or ProjectsEventsLibrary or ProjectsLibraryEvents....????
This was great! Thanks! I have a question: I use a lot of repeating graphics mostly Jpegs or PNG files that I incorporate into many projects. How can I incorporate them into the FCPx's base library as generators or some other way so I don't have to import them every time I need them from an external folder? Thank you for your answer! :)
Hi, you should do all this inside FCPx as it has excellent media management. You have not been able to get loose from Premier in this matter
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thx boss super helpful. events/libraries/projects/keywords always confuses the f*ck outta me
Thank you so much. Just getting into FCPX and this helped tremendously.
Wow - I just had my most efficient and enjoyable FCP edit session after taking notes on this video. Thank you so much!
Very similar to our workflow with the exception of making separate event folders , Thanks for sharing! keep bringing that fire content !
Really appreciate this video!! Makes soo much sense and the comparison between FCPX and APP helped me understand the concept between Libraries, Events and Projects soo much better. To me it actually makes better sense to list in the menu from top to bottom, Library, Event and then Project as this is the workflow. Good job in this explanation bud!! Well done!!
Dude... Thank you. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Trying to start editing using FCPX and haven't found a good tutorial for understanding the organization and Librarys until I came across yours. Well done. Thank you.
Pretty much my way - i would suggest you to add the date at the beginning of your deliverable folder in a format 201912-DeliverableName - this will allow you to sort projects quickly. I also create own library for each deliverable - the reason being is that FCPX converts my FS5 files to its own format and embed it into own library - if i would allow to add everything to one library this will be a killer for a space. My events are different however, usually they are duplicating library name but when i have project (i.e. a 3 day conference) where i have to deliver highlights from each day thats what i use for events [Deliverable XXX - Day 1] [Deliverable XXX - Day 2] [Deliverable XXX - Day 3] and i use projects within this event for [Rough Cut] [Edit1] etc. Hope it makes sense.
I have also switched from premiere to FCP 7 and then to FCPX - but now in my organisation i need to work in Premiere and must say - i prefer Premiere's Pro file organisation - ordinary folders work better for me - especially when you want to archive the project, but i found it much slower on mac comparing to the PC. Also i am missing easy ease feature within FCPX.
I wanted to ask how you finding this SSD T5 for video work - usually i was using raid drives but i have ordered new Macbook Pro 16 and now i want external SSD to replace my HDD's. Do you create mirror backups as you go? Thats my only concern with single drive SSD.