• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Organizing Media

  Posted by Shawn Wyatt on February 14, 2006 at 4:35 pm

  Hey Guys,

  Can someone tell me the best way to organize things?
  Should I keep just video on my SATA raid 0?
  What about graphics and anything I render out of Motion or Combustion?
  Should those be on a seperate drive?
  How about audio? I want to load in the stock music I have so I can access it quickly, but soundtrack doesn’t seem to recognize MP3s. What’s the best way of importing? I thought AAC but you can’t just drag those into FCPro.

  I’m confused, as you can tell by all the questions. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks,

  Shawn

  Shawn Wyatt replied 20 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Kstheory

  February 14, 2006 at 4:53 pm

  One thing that helps is deciding what’s more important, helping FCP perform better or keeping things more organized for your benefit.

  For example, to help FCP’s real-time playback capability, it helps to keep streams it needs to access on different DISKS (not just partitions). If you keep your video files on one disk and your audio files on another (it pays to split them when capturing), then each disk can retrieve data simultaneously.

  Keeping in mind how FCP and your hard drives work should help in some organizational decisions.
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  David Bogie

  February 14, 2006 at 9:58 pm

  You can export out of iTunes to AAIF.
  Or is it AIFF?
  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Debe

  February 14, 2006 at 10:00 pm

  One caveat-

  If you’re working in DV resolution, FCP likes the audio and video to be together. Don’t put captured DV audio & video on separate drives. You’ll hurt a lot less if you don’t.

  For the higher resolution formats, kstheory’s advice is nontheless sound.

  debe
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  Kstheory

  February 14, 2006 at 10:48 pm

  Yes, I think debe is right when it comes to DV: it’s more efficient and faster to keep DV video and audio together, especially when you know that you won’t be rendering. FCP will open the QT mov files and have immediate access to both video and audio.

  However, I’m not certain whether it’s better to keep audio and video together when you know that large portions of the video side of your sequence will be replaced by render files. In that case, FCP has to open (at least) two chunky streams at once: the render files and the QT mov files that combined audio and video. If the audio were separated beforehand, then FCP would only have to open one chunky render stream and a much lighter audio stream. This should reduce the chance of dropped frames.

  At least this is what I surmise is happening in theory.
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  Shawn Wyatt

  February 14, 2006 at 11:51 pm

  Thanks guys,

  I usually do uncompressed or Blackmagic 10bit (that’s another question)

  So that means I should place audio on my internal drive I guess.

  Might help my RT performance because it’s basically non-existent.

  Where do you keep motion renders and things like stills, targas, avis, or quicktimes with alpha?

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