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Backups
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Yes that is true – and best to put them on a drive that is being backed up regularly, or on a drive that does not contain your source libraries.
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
Apple-certified Master Trainer
Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
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[Bret Williams] “On this current project, I keep the camera originals external, but the AVCHD that had to be rewrapped isn’t, since the project started as a 10.0.9 project. That’s 27gigs. “
Of it is the original media, that is h264 and not ProRes optimized, you can consolidate it out.
Once out, everything that is linked will stay linked.
If it’s managed or generated in the library, it will dupe.
Jeremy
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If I’m understanding what your saying… the back ups when opened don’t take up more space. I just opened a back up, the original was 10gigs and back up says 10gigs but if you look at the HD space it doesn’t go up by 10gigs. If you throw the back up in the trash and empty the trash the HD space doesn’t change.
Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro 3.2GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe+
FCS 3 OS X 10.7.4
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No, they will likely take up a lot more space when a backup is opened. Depending on your workflow. If you copy media to the event when importing then you’ll be in for a world o’ bloat. The backups themselves are nothing but data. They actually do what no library that you and I create can do, they LINK to the media in another library. They have to or they’d be huge if they were a copy of say a 10 gig library every 20 minutes. But the minute you open one, they copy themselves to the same directory as the library they’re backing up, and rename themselves to the same name as the library they’re backing up PLUS the timestamp. All good right? And then, now that it’s a mortal library and not in the library backup anymore, it immediately has to live by mortal rules and so it has to consolidate all the media. But as Jeremy points out it’s just the internally managed media. So any files that weren’t externally linked originally will be consolidated.
In my case that was 27gigs of rewrapped AVCHD files. As he pointed out, I could have moved those files out of the event with the consolidate command once I was using 10.1, but hey, I didn’t think of it because I’m just learning all this stuff on the fly like so many of us. But that’s the way I learn. Can’t memorize crap. But once I’ve done something I tend not to forget it. In the future I’ll be externally managing every file FCP X allows.
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Plus Mark Spencer kindly introduced me to the concept of “Relink from camera archive”. Which is a very useful thing to have I reckon. But where is that command I cannot find it?
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Out of interest tried having a look inside some of those backup folders in the library with show package contents.
Wtf!
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