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Starting with entire library on external hard drive
Is there a way to start FCPX so that your entire library begins on an external hard drive?
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Create a new library, give it a name and choose the external drive as the place you want it to be created.
Or am I not understanding the question?
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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FC will open whatever was opened at the last session. Unless those libraries are off line. By default it does open a new library on the system drive with a new event which I find annoying.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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You can close all open libraries, so FCPX can exist with no libraries loaded. Hopefully it’s a small step from that to not demanding a default library on the system drive.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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Not a huge fan of having multiple libraries open in the browser except when I want to copy footage between them. I routinely find myself closing those extra unasked for libraries. And don’t tell me people don’t mistakenly import footage to the wrong event due to this default behavior.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I agree. I almost always launch FCPX with fcpx library manager from Arctic whiteness, set to only load the selected library and close everything else. Or I use the last key to do the same. There’s nothing more confusing than having unwanted libraries open while editing.
Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
http://www.southerncreative.com.au | G+: https://gplus.to/jeffkirkland | Twitter: @jeffkirkland
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