What’s the Best Way to Save/Backup a Project in FCPX?

[Noah Kadner]

https://www.arcticwhiteness.com/finalcutlibrarymanager/

Noah

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[John Rofrano]

[Ray Sherman] “I would like to know the best way to save a project on a scratch drive and backup hard drive to save disc space?”

The best way would be to create a new Library on the backup drive. Then drop the Project into a new Event in that Library. Finally, select the Library and in the Inspector use the Consolidate button to copy all of the media required by that project out to the new Library. This will ensure that everything you need for that project is copied into the backup drive.

~jr

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[Ray Sherman]

[Noah Kadner] “https://www.arcticwhiteness.com/finalcutlibrarymanager/”

Hi Noah, Thanks for the link….. This app appears to be a great organizational tool along with a great price. I will definately look further into it. As always, thanks for the help, Ray

[Ray Sherman]

[John Rofrano] “select the Library and in the Inspector use the Consolidate button to copy all of the media required by that project out to the new Library.”

Hi John, Thanks for the great info. Making a new library and consolidating the project to my backup drive looks like a great way to go. Please correct me if I’m wrong; By doing this, I now could delete that same project from my FCPX scratch drive to free up space? Also, when I consolidate should I transcode/format the project the way I want it for final output? As you can see, I have a lot to learn about this part of media management….. You have been a great help for me and I sincerly appreciate it. As always, thanks for all your help.

[John Rofrano]

[Ray Sherman] “Please correct me if I’m wrong; By doing this, I now could delete that same project from my FCPX scratch drive to free up space?”

Yes. This will create a complete copy of the project and all of it’s media. You could now edit the project on the external drive. I work like this most of the time (with Libraries completely on external drives). It lets me bounce between editing on by Mac Pro and MacBook Pro very easily.

[Ray Sherman] “Also, when I consolidate should I transcode/format the project the way I want it for final output?”

Consolidate will ask you what media you want to copy (Original, Optimized, and/or Proxy). If you don’t want or need the optimized or poxy media, you can just consolidate the original media and then build whatever optimized or proxy you want after that as needed. So if you now have optimized media and you just want proxies, only consolidate the original media and then create just the proxies later.

[Ray Sherman] “As you can see, I have a lot to learn about this part of media management”

I can *highly* recommend Ripple Training’s Media Management in Final Cut Pro X. It will be the best $49 USD you ever spent on training. They cover all sorts of scenarios and how to best manage your media.

[Ray Sherman] “You have been a great help for me and I sincerly appreciate it. As always, thanks for all your help.”

You are very welcome. Glad I could help. 🙂

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Ray Sherman]

[John Rofrano] “I can *highly* recommend Ripple Training’s Media Management in Final Cut Pro X. It will be the best $49 USD you ever spent on training. They cover all sorts of scenarios and how to best manage your media.”

I totally agree….. I plan on purchasing Ripples FCPX and Motion training bundles which include Media Management. I have looked at many of Steve & Marks free training videos as well as their MacBreak Studio videos. Like you, they are top notch speakers and trainers. Once again John, thanks for your expertise. Ray

[John Rofrano]

[Ray Sherman] “Like you, they are top notch speakers and trainers. Once again John, thanks for your expertise. “

Thank you for the compliment. 😉 You are very welcome Ray.

~jr

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http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Sherril Schlesinger]

Hi John,

I know this thread is 2 years old but I just want to verify that when you copy a project to a new library on another drive and then consolidate — that it actually COPIES the media to the new library, leaving the original drive in tact?

So conceivably I could give the 2 drives to 2 different editors and both would have all of the media for those projects?

Thanks
Sherril

[John Rofrano]

[Sherril Schlesinger] “So conceivably I could give the 2 drives to 2 different editors and both would have all of the media for those projects?”

Hi Sherril,

Yes, what consolidate does is gather any media that is referenced in the library but not physically in the library and copies it to the library leaving the original media files in place. That would allow you to make a compete copy of a library on an external drive and then copy that to yet another drive and give the two complete copies to two other editors and they would each have all of the files from the project.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Sherril Schlesinger]

Fantastic John……thank you, it worked ☺

You REALLY helped me make a daunting task manageable!

A bloated project that’s been going for 5 years, and has traveled to various countries and had many hands on it has been wrangled from a bloated 11TB down to 1.5TB.

Very grateful!
Sherril