Relinking to a local drive that is spotlight enabled works fantastic. However, our relinking slowdown comes from our shared storage that is not spotlightable. I can point Final Cut at the root of one drive and wait for it to search, or I can try and help it along by navigating to specific areas. Either way, it is not my favorite task. 🙂

Joe, you are correct that bringing footage in as proxies doesn’t make a large difference. The only think it would save would be relinking time which, on our documentaries and Jellyfish SMB shares, can be time 1-3 hours of annoyance. I would love to be able to leave the proxies relinked so I have the option to flip back to them quickly.

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Robert, thanks for the video.

Jeremy, thanks for clarifying what I am seeing. I look forward to the day that I can add proxies first, then relink to originals when ready (probably a long wait😆).

Back in 2017 I was trying to do a similar thing. Some smart guy went through the code and came up with this Motion project with all the options. Give it a try and see what you think.

I see that we can now relink proxies separate from original media. We start all our edits with proxies, then relink to original media during finishing.

When I first import media, Final Cut treats it as original media. Does anyone know if I can import media so that Final Cut sees it as proxy media?

Andrew, there are time I would love video lanes as well. Until Apple adds that feature we use a disabled title as a separator. To make it more visual I also create a “notes” role.