question about FCPX naming conventions

[Matt Callac]

[Andrew Richards] “My chief concern is that a serious workstation will accumulate a lot of Events and Projects and having the system always showing them all the time seems like it could eventually overwhelm the application.”

I dont’ think it’ll overwhelm the the application itself. it seems to be just reading from a database. Think about the file browser in motion. it’s just a GUI display of your current drives/folder structures. The event’s library is not that much different, only it’s just everything that’s in the FCP events folders on your drives. It’s that plus the metadata database you create for each event. It’s not taking much power to drive that. What I more worry about is it overwhelming the user. Think about once you’ve have literally hundreds of events on it. It’s gonig to be cumbersome to navigate through that.

-mattyc

[Tom Wolsky]

Might I recommend Philip Hodgetts’ Event Manager X to make this fairly painless.

https://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/EventManagerX/

All the best,

Tom

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[Matt Callac]

Thanks, Tom.

I’ll most surely be purchasing that if/when i start doing real work in FCPX.

-mattyc