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Saving Space
I copy my work onto my office 8TB Public folder. My SD card from my Sony is placed there as the BDMV folder which I can drag into “Log and Transfer” and my Canon is already MOV files that I import.
That said….it’s great that I’m saving these to the Public but is it actually saving me space on my Mac. What Is the “total space” number on the bottom of the “Log and Transfer” window representing? When I’m importing and Log and Transferring is it adding all those GB’s to FCP anyway?
If so is there a way to always be pulling files from my Public? -
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Log and Transfer is transcoding whatever the record format, which in the case of a DSLR should be h.264, into an edit format which you chose in the settings, such as ProRes, etc. These files will be very much larger than the camera files.
So yes, it will take up a whole lot of space, depending on the resolution of what you’re shooting, and the format you’ve chosen.
There is no reason to copy the camera files onto the same drive you’re going to log&transfer to anyway. The point to copying the raw camera files would be for backup purposes, and you’d obviously want to do that on a DIFFERENT drive than your scratch disk. That way you could recover your files if the drive with your project media dies, and by using the more heavily compressed camera files you save space.
Regards,
Chris
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