Bill…How do you personally manage project library and the file size?

[Bill Davis]

[Richard Herd] “That is, I would love to have footage import into X and before it even hits the timeline there is an adjustment layer added that I define, so all the footage looks the way I want it to look BEFORE I edit.)”

Thats precisely what happens if you apply your color correction to clips in the Event Browser rather than in the Timeline. Any color adjustment tags (metadata once again, technically) that you make in the EB, flow through to all subsequent timelines you use that clip in.

That’s the metadata “flow” I keep harping on that’s central to X. Clip data imports from the camera into the EB – merges with any additional metadata you append in the Event Browser and flows into the Timelines, then Timeline attributes are reflected to the Project Library – which reports them out via the Share menu options.

Working upstream is typically more powerful than working downstream. Since upstream stuff flows down, but downstream stuff doesn’t really “flow” back up.

I suppose one could argue that there is actually some limited data flow upstream via the Keywarding HUD and tagging interface that appears in the Timeline but the essential metadata “inheritance” flow is essentially always downstream.

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[John Fishback]

This is all very handy, but I like to keep all assets used in a project in one place. And when the project’s put to bed, I archive all of it. My worry is what happens if a drive goes down? Your clips go red and you might not know where they came from. I also clone my RAID every night.

John

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