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Locate and Copy Clips from NAS
I’ve created a project that has clips on both an external drive and my network drive. I am leaving home and won’t have access to the NAS (not fast enough access anyway). Is there a way to find and copy all of the clips that are on the NAS to the external I will be taking with me?
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Hi,
Yes, of course you can do that. You need to consolidate your media.
First, select your library and from the File Menu choose Consolidate Media. It will copy all the media from anywhere on your hard drives or network drives into the FCP Library.
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TY. Is there a way to have it copy the files to my external drive and not the library. I find whenever I put them in the library, it gets bloated and slows down significantly. Thx again.
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You can set the storage destination in your Library preferences and consolidate to an external source. It does not have to be in to the library.
There is also an app called Reference X on the App Store that helps with this. You have to export as fcpxml v1.11 though, which is still possible in the latest version of FCP.
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Yes, as Jeremy mentioned, you can change the location to an external drive. Just select your library and change the location in the inspector.
And honestly, that slowdown issue when you put everything in the library is a myth.
This is another folder at the end of the day. The main factor for slowness is the computer’s power and the hard drive speed, and the space left. Right now, all the computers have SSDs, and external drives are SSDs, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
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Most users that complained about a bloated Library were dealing with external drives formatted in EXFAT from my experience.
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Yep, I keep everything in the Library. I edit TV shows that have several seasons in one very massive Library. Never any issues. I keep my drives clean, and I’m running a MBP M1 Pro Max. No issues. System drives of any OS must keep minimum 15% free space. But yeah, just another folder.
As a retired IT engineer, I can assure you, it doesn’t matter where you store your media, it’s just files being read off of a drive. Being inside the Library has NOTHING to do with anything. Drive speed and system hygiene is all that matters.
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