Bret Williams
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I think I’d just use FCPX to make a copy of the library to the same drive. It won’t take up any more space because it’ll all be hard links. Then, in the new library I’d consolidate the media OUT of the library.
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And let’s not forget all other NLEs have multiple browser windows. So I can have interview selects open in list view on one part of the screen, and b-roll as thumbnails in another window. GFX perhaps in another window. So when I need an asset there’s not all this mucking about resorting, switching to favorites, switching to list view for VO for a good waveform then back to large thumbnails to view graphics. And to be able to manually sort and edit to timeline like Avid or Premiere would be a big plus.
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Definitely low 1998 rates for sure! But then I read the bizarre description and thought it was high. ☺
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I’m not completely sure what you’re trying to do. If you kept the spatial interpolation at default, then you can copy and paste into another size project or modify the size of the current one and you shouldn’t have to adjust your animation (much).
As to the helpful grid plugin, I created a relatively cheap title overlay plugin that has an adjustable grid, custom guides, rulers with positioning data, Safe zones, film zones, center cuts, etc. https://bretfx.com/product/power-guides/
It also sounds like maybe you need a project wide crop? You can always compound clip the whole sequence and then crop that small enough to hide all your issues, OR add an adjustment layer and crop that.
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First, turn off background render. If you ever encounter something that needs rendering, select it and choose ctrl+r to render it for playback.
As well, I generally don’t transcode (optimize) anything. I usually work with original media. You can always highlight the media in the browser and right click on it and transcode it later. Optimizing isn’t just a wrapper, it’s a re-compression to ProRes. ProRes 422 can take up to 10x as much space as original h264 based media. If your system can handle it (most i7 CPUs of late certainly can) use original media and switch to better performance in the viewer window instead of best quality and see how that helps playback first vs. transcoding.
That said, if you need more space, and to get rid of transcodes and renders, select the library and choose File>Delete generated library files. There you can choose to delete renders, optimized or proxies. All can be regenerated, so unless you trashed your original camera media after import/transcoding, you’ll be fine.
As well, it sounds like you might only have one Library? The general practice is to consider the Library the “project” for a particular job or related series of videos. But even the latter can get very unwieldy if you’re working on a series for a year. Trust me, I know. Dealing with that right now. Had to finally break that Library up into smaller Libraries when it reached 2TB. But that’s a lesson for another day.
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IF your files are all in the library, dragging it to another drive will make a complete copy and is your best chance of the renders staying linked. You would want to open the library on the new drive and make sure it functions as expected. I would also check that the media is all there. Easiest way to do that is to check the library panel of the inspector. It should report all media types in the library.
If you use consolidate, and the files are in the library, it will move the files to the chosen destination. But you’re probably going to have to rerender.
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If you mean you set it to In Library, then in your library settings in the inspector, choose a new location for all those things (leave Motion content alone, it should be at its default Motion content folder) and then click the consolidate button. It’ll move it out of the library and to whatever location you’ve
Another option would be just to drag the entire Library to another drive. The library doesn’t need to be on the system drive. In fact I would suggest it not be. If the main drive goes kaput, then you’ll lose your work and your backup. The library and the backup should be on separate drives.
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XML is not that robust. Not even FCPXML. But you’re dealing with XML from 2009.
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I would export them as ProRes 4444.
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