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archiving projects without transcoded files
To save space I would like to know if it’s possible, and reliable, to archive finished avchd projects without saving any of the transcoded files. In other words, just relink to my copied “private” folder from the card in my panasonic gh2, and then fcpx can recreate all the edits and fx from those compressed files. Right now, I’m making a huge prores file of the edited project for archiving, and that can be well over 100 gigs. I know I can invest in more drives, but it would be nice if I could archive a 2 hr project in 20 gigs of space rather than 200. I hear that the latest updates have solved a lot of the media relinking issues. So, can I do this? If so, could I do it by first quitting FCP X and then deleting the contents of the “Render Files” folder within the project folder? Then on reopening FCPX it would indicate missing files and I could relink to my archived “private” folder? If I don’t get a quick reply, I’ll try it with a short test project and report back..
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In case you didn’t know (I’m new to FCPX) you can delete the render files for the Event and the Project directly within FCPX. But you’ll have to delete the transcoded files manually I think. Also you might want to delete analysis files too if they are too big.
Quit FCPX, throw away some of the unwanted folder contents a folder at a time and launch FCP again, it it’s not happy, then quit FCPX get the files back out the trash. But from what I’ve tested it seems pretty happy whatever you do to it.
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