Any workflow for “media manage” trim to used + handles? Willing to go way outside the box for this.

[Jacob Brown]

Hey David,

This solution will depend on the specifics of your editing process, but I have a simple idea.

Before beginning your edit in FCPX, create Compound Clips out of the ranges of the huge media files you are editing from.

Batch export the Compound Clips from the Event/Library browser (and send off for external processing)

Edit in FCPX using those Compound Clips instead of the naked media.

When you get back the new processed media back from your post-house or whatever, you can simply replace edit within those original Compound Clips, and it will ripple through your edited timeline. Just be careful not to used Snapshot duplicates so that the Compound Clips stay linked.

-Jacob