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Importing Always Copies?
Hi,
I just started with FInal Cut Pro X today. I have a question about importing footage. Does it always make a copy? I have a hard drive full of DSLR footage and there is barely any space left for anything else. In FCP7, all you have to do is drag the video files into the Browser without duplicating them. Is that no longer possible in FCPX? When I try to import media in FCPX, it says I don’t have enough hard drive space.
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No, I would advise you to watch some tutorials about FCPX. It’s a basic thing, and FCP X works so differnet than FCP 7 in so many ways, that you will frustrate yourself if you don’t learn some things first.
To answer your question:
go to your preferences, go to the Import tab, and turn ‘Copy footage into Events’ (or something) OFF.
If you import things, sometimes FCP X will make optimized media (Prores Footage) or Proxy media (Prores Proxy, for speed of editing). You can turn both off, but you have to check your general preferences AND your preferences when doing the importing itself.Happy editing!
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Thanks a lot.
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FCPX wants to convert DSLR footage to ProRes for easy editing. If space is limited import from the camera card. In most other instances you’ll get the option of copying the footage you’re importing every time you import. You’ll only want to copy and optimize footage that doesn’t edit will in its original format.
Since you already have the DSLR footage on your hard drive I would get a portable drive and move the DSLR footage to that THEN import from the portable drive so that FCPX can transcode to ProRes. Believe me, you’ll be happier while editing with ProRes footage.
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