[Craig Alan]

Thanks Robin. The main reason I switched to bundles was because they take up only as much drive space as the files in them, though I don’t think deleting files recovers the extra space, and they can be resized if you need more space. Happy to hear they are safer from corruption and if backed up can be updated rather than recopied. I once had an entire hard drive become corrupted so I never feel any single storage system is fool proof. I had another saved using disc warrior. Of course drive failure is much more common and by itself means the need to back up critical data.
Interesting you say that managed media is no more likely to have problems than large libraries referencing media stored outside the library. I remember reading otherwise. Not saying your wrong. And one or two less steps would be great because I’m setting up new projects throughout the week. I do notice that FC seems to eat up ram and will slow down. Quitting reopening does help. And it does this rather quickly.

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[Craig Alan]

Two purposes. If you keep your media and render files outside the library then there is still one package that contains all your assets: this could be any folder.

And more importantly for me – a sparse bundle can be unmounted like any drive and cannot be mounted from a simple finder. Thus students cannot open other student’s projects and do any harm.

I had read that a library that gets too full is more likely to slow down and have other problems. If this is no longer the case, I would not mind skipping creating non-managed folders for media and render files. Though I would still need one for a copy of the P2 cards and back-up files.

The only downside I see to the sparse bundle is if everything is inside it and it got corrupted then all would be lost. Hasn’t happened yet and this is true of a library that contained everything as well. Either way, if it is critical, you need to back it up on a different drive. With a bundle you can back-up all assets at once.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks, Robin. I have made it a practice to consolidate each library’s assets in their own set of folders outside the library: P2 card copies, Media, Render, FC Backups within a sparse bundle. I know with the latest changes to FC that sparse bundles are a bit redundant; but it is the only way I know to isolate and protect student projects and all related media from all other students. It also makes it easy for me to copy, move, bring home projects, delete projects without loosing track of where all the assets are. Just wanted to make sure that if I were to do this with a project containing compounds and multi cams that it wouldn’t be searching for a parent or siblings off-line if that project had these clips copied from another library.

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[Craig Alan]

That’s great. So the only parent child relationship where the changes ripple to other uses of the same compound are within the same library. Since I use a new library for each new project not really much to be concerned about.

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[Craig Alan]

How is it for others apps? Any problems with ultra small text. It looks awesome.

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[Craig Alan]

https://www.larryjordan.biz/fcpx-compound-clip/

UPDATE – Aug. 2013
This behavior changed with the 10.0.6 FCP X update. Now, if you modify a compound clip in the Timeline, it modifies all occurrences of that compound clip in the Project. The way to change one compound clip without changing all the others is to select the clip in the Timeline, and choose Clip > Reference New Parent Clip.
This duplicates the clip in the Event Browser. Rename and use the new duplicate clip. You can make as many changes to the duplicate clip as you want, without having those changes ripple back into the original clip.

[Craig Alan]

Bill, if there is a compound clip saved in an event of one library and used in another library event as a child, what happens if u make changes to the parent or child if the other library is offline? How could the database interact with media that is off line?

Not a fan of this rippling changes from one project to another. Copy pasting yes; auto changes between projects, no.

Off line meaning on an unmounted drive.

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[Craig Alan]

Depends if u create it as a new master.

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[Craig Alan]

fcp. x basic setting up a project

Google it. Lots of free basic tutorials;

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[Craig Alan]

What codec is it in? You might need to optimize.

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