Life saver. I felt like I was constantly racing against time when editing a video and seeing my storage slowing packing up. Moving everything to an external drive to edit will be much easier!
Thanks for your help. Really helpful. You save me from Heart ache 💔. Just bought imac pro with little SSD space.. hope someone else find this wonderful. Thumb up 👍👍👍👍
I’ve often thought the same thing. I had to come up with my own way of keeping straight with pics and words! All 3 terms are too related in terms of what a video editor might think.
I also need this as I am vlogger and I make video for my tour of all days so how to set every day video on fcp and how to organise it like first day video, second day video and third day video etc.. like library, event and project . hope you consider
Thank you infinity Serge! This has answered a ton of questions for me. One more question though: can I get an HDD external hard drive and save the money or should I definitely get a SSD external hard drive for Final Cut Pro?
Hello - Great video! I have subscribed. I do have a question for you about running Final Cut in an external hard drive. The library that you created in the video called "Demo" is exclusively for the video that you're editing at the time or will that be your everything that is edited on the hardrive folder? I guess my question is if that is a process I will need to do every time I start editing a new video or project? Sorry for the question, but I am new to all of this. Hehe
thank you! I just wanted to say no matter what my Final Cut Pro library size won't reduce ( im 1st timer and is 1st library) I noticed all the size ( around 360Gb ) are Optical Flow folder inside Analysis files folder... as I finished the video I just deleted the whole library to start over on the next video, is there a way to delete or stop those optical flow files to get so big within Final Cut Pro interface?
Great video thanks a lot. Have you noticed any performance issues when using an external SSD for editing and library storage, compared to the internal SSD?
Sorry quick question if you have time - I have actually already turned off background rendering for my project which explains why my FCP library is actually quite small already BUT I am getting dropped frames sometimes (only when I opt for quality playback rather than performance) so for that part of the project I need to actually turn ON rendering to fix this...? And then delete those render files at some later point? Again, many thanks for all of your awesome straightforward videos. You are my goto for anything FCP!
Hello; I am having a problem using FC on my new M1. FC opens but when I try to open a library from external hard drive, it won't open and the "open" tab does nothing, it stays dark. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks so much for your videos.
quick question, does making a copy from one drive to the Final Cut Pro library change the speed at which it works? 1 external ssd I have is much faster than another. thank you!
What I would love to be able to do is move my motion templates folder to an external drive. Between my FX Factory plugins, MotionVFX plus, and all of the stuff from Envato Elements I have downloaded, it takes up way too much of my system storage space. Any solutions for this? I tried using sym links in the past but every time I run FCP it recreates the same folders and takes up the space.
Do final cut pro rendering files get over-written when you make a change to the clip or does final cut pro create a new render file and leave the old render file in place? For instance, if I render a clip and FCP creates a rendered file, then I add a title to that clip does final cut now have 2 rendered files for the same clip or 2 rendered files?
Thanks, but if you delete your render files won't this remove all of your rendering on your clips, ie grading etc. ? Then you'll have to render it all again anyway won't you ?
Life saver. I felt like I was constantly racing against time when editing a video and seeing my storage slowing packing up. Moving everything to an external drive to edit will be much easier!
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Thanks for your help. Really helpful. You save me from Heart ache 💔.
Just bought imac pro with little SSD space.. hope someone else find this wonderful.
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Good job as usual. Very clear, concise, and thorough. I wish the rest of CZcams could be this good.
Brilliant .It's quite rare to find someone who both knows how to do something AND KNOWS HOW TO EXPLAIN IT .Thanks
oh my gad!! how did I not know this?? THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! deleting all those rendered files just gave me back 500GB!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this !!!! Helped me alot !
OMG best&complete tutorial regarding proper disk space management - huge thx !!!
you're a life saver. cheers
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Thank you!
Finally a video that greats straight to the point and explains things clearly. You have been a great help. Thank you very much.
Thanks Serge
Thanx for your tips, I ordered a T7 arriving today!
As always...simply the best FCPX tutorials come from Serge. Thank you!
Serge, your tips are always good and right to the point.
You've made my editing days that much more simple. 🎉😅
Be well sir.
Thanks very much Serge. This was exactly what I need to use a SSD for FCP! Keep up the great work!
This guy is the best
This was so helpful and your instructions were so easy to follow! Thank you Thank you Thank you.
This video just saved us hundreds of dollars, thank you so much
Serge for President, this saved my life
I’m excited to use the tips from this to start making my own videos! Thank you!
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!! GREAT VIDEO!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Extremely useful video. Thank you. Can you also make a video explaining the difference between project, library, event etc. it is a bit confusing 🙏🏻
I’ve often thought the same thing. I had to come up with my own way of keeping straight with pics and words! All 3 terms are too related in terms of what a video editor might think.
I also need this as I am vlogger and I make video for my tour of all days so how to set every day video on fcp and how to organise it like first day video, second day video and third day video etc.. like library, event and project . hope you consider
This video is totally awesome! Thanks so much! Live saver!!!
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Excellent tutorial- VERY useful.
Just what I was looking for, brilliant thanks Serge, cheers
Thank you infinity Serge! This has answered a ton of questions for me. One more question though: can I get an HDD external hard drive and save the money or should I definitely get a SSD external hard drive for Final Cut Pro?
Great video, as always! 👍🏻 I personally edit all my prom a Samsung T7 Shield. I also use my old T5 for backing up files
Always clear and consistent.
thanks!
Well done video. Great job communicating. You earned a new subscriber!
This helped me so much, thank you!!!
thanks so much Serge! your videos are the best
Doing the Lord's work 🙏
Serge is the man.
Thanks Serge!😁
great video. quick and clear. Thank you.
Hello - Great video! I have subscribed. I do have a question for you about running Final Cut in an external hard drive. The library that you created in the video called "Demo" is exclusively for the video that you're editing at the time or will that be your everything that is edited on the hardrive folder? I guess my question is if that is a process I will need to do every time I start editing a new video or project? Sorry for the question, but I am new to all of this. Hehe
Very helpful, thanks!
Thank you Serge 👍
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This helped me a lot, thanks! :)
I didn't even know Jimmy Kimmel was into tech.. OUTSTANDING!
Helpful, thank you!
Thank you ☺️
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Thank you!!!! You rock!
Thanks for this video!
I nned ti know if this way I can work on FCP literally from External Hard Disk?
Thanks again!
thank you! I just wanted to say no matter what my Final Cut Pro library size won't reduce ( im 1st timer and is 1st library) I noticed all the size ( around 360Gb ) are Optical Flow folder inside Analysis files folder... as I finished the video I just deleted the whole library to start over on the next video, is there a way to delete or stop those optical flow files to get so big within Final Cut Pro interface?
Great video thanks a lot. Have you noticed any performance issues when using an external SSD for editing and library storage, compared to the internal SSD?
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Sorry quick question if you have time - I have actually already turned off background rendering for my project which explains why my FCP library is actually quite small already BUT I am getting dropped frames sometimes (only when I opt for quality playback rather than performance) so for that part of the project I need to actually turn ON rendering to fix this...? And then delete those render files at some later point? Again, many thanks for all of your awesome straightforward videos. You are my goto for anything FCP!
Hello; I am having a problem using FC on my new M1. FC opens but when I try to open a library from external hard drive, it won't open and the "open" tab does nothing, it stays dark. Any ideas what might be wrong? Thanks so much for your videos.
What about 100Gb plugins from Motion Template bro? No way to movie it without have 1000 issues with PFS plugins and others...
Do you have a tutorial on how to erase or disappear objects in Final Cut Pro ?
quick question, does making a copy from one drive to the Final Cut Pro library change the speed at which it works? 1 external ssd I have is much faster than another. thank you!
yep yep and yep..... do it today.
Is there any way to undo this as I believe I deleted my entire libraries!!!
What I would love to be able to do is move my motion templates folder to an external drive. Between my FX Factory plugins, MotionVFX plus, and all of the stuff from Envato Elements I have downloaded, it takes up way too much of my system storage space. Any solutions for this? I tried using sym links in the past but every time I run FCP it recreates the same folders and takes up the space.
also clear it please
Do final cut pro rendering files get over-written when you make a change to the clip or does final cut pro create a new render file and leave the old render file in place? For instance, if I render a clip and FCP creates a rendered file, then I add a title to that clip does final cut now have 2 rendered files for the same clip or 2 rendered files?
it probably creates a new file, also if you decide to undo the task it would need the previous render file.
Thanks, but if you delete your render files won't this remove all of your rendering on your clips, ie grading etc. ? Then you'll have to render it all again anyway won't you ?
just moved all the materials on the external drive but now final cut works soooo slow 😵💫 it load every time i do something..
Does this affect your ability to use plugins?!
this is a really bad idea