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Difference is where the original clips are stored. If “internal” to the library, deleting them from FCPX will delete them from the system. If “external” to the library, deleting them from FCPX only deletes the reference to them, but not the actual file. You would have to go Finder and delete them manually to remove them from the system.
Someone in another thread from a few weeks ago pointed me to Final Cut Library Manager by Arctic Whiteness. Might be helpful in seeing what’s where and how to free up space.
https://www.arcticwhiteness.com/finalcutlibrarymanager/
— Joby.
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The Fisheye effect would probably accomplish that for you.
— Joby.
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Not much to add Kyrina other than to support Joe’s troubleshooting tips and +1 for hanging in there with you.
I did notice in one of your earlier responses that the 6TB external drive only had 3GB of available space. That’s dangerously low for such a large drive. Giving it at least a 1TB of free space will give the system some breathing room, and might help with the issues.
But to Joe’s point about back to basics. Disconnect all external drives and card readers. Work with just the mini. Record a brand new 2 min. clip from your 80D. Import it to the mini and create a new library on the mini, etc. With only 170GBs left on the mini, it’s getting full as well, but this little test will be enough to give greater insight into whether the issues are coming from something more basic such as a failing computer as Joe suspects.
If things go back to butter-smooth with the little test you can start to build from there, such as applying effects, etc. like in your original project. I know I have one third-party effect in particular that would do this kind of thing to an unrendered timeline (i.e., laggy playback).
— Joby.
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Three thoughts:
Reverse direction of the clip. (Little speedometer looking icon under the Viewer.)
Rotate clip 90 or 180 degrees in the Inspector. (Transform)
Apply the Flipped effect (under the Distortion category).— Joby.
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Behavior based on possibly how they’re organized at the Finder level?
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Odille, since you mentioned being still fairly new to FCPX, it might be helpful to review what it’s doing under the hood (and forgive me if this info is already familiar to you).
If you’re letting FCPX do all the work (no workflows external to FCPX), and you’ve got FCPX keeping all media “internal” to the FCPX library, when you right-click a library in the Finder and select Show Package Contents, go to the Event folder for your media. Inside of that you’ll find two folders: Original Media and Transcoded Media. FCPX will rewrap your MXF files to .MOV. It does this automatically, and you’ll find those under Original Media. Upon ingest (i.e., Import Media), you have the option of creating Optimized Media and Proxy Media. Both will also be wrapped .MOV. If you don’t do this step at ingest, it can be done later by right clicking the clip in the Browser. The Optimized and Proxy Media are both a ProRes codec, but the Proxy Media is simply a smaller resolution.
You can also setup a library to store these external to the library. It wasn’t clear to me which of these three flavors of your footage you might be trying to relink back to, and whether some or all of it was external to the library and sitting on the dead harddrive. But, maybe knowing which of the three flavors you’re aiming for might help your troubleshooting.
Two thoughts:
Since you’re likely starting over with a new harddrive (and remember to always buy two–one for backup), it might be more efficient to start from scratch and let FCPX do all the work to re-create the flavors you want. So long as clip names haven’t changed, you should be able to copy/paste timelines from the original library to the new library. And of course, test this idea with a couple of clips first so you don’t spend more time on something that may not work the way you need it to.
The high contrast clips isn’t an issue I’ve encountered before, even after a relink. Makes me wonder if a setting got changed for the Color Space Override, or a LUT was applied. Go to the Inspector (Command 4) and go to Settings (under Metadata Views). There you’ll see a variety of settings for a clip, such as Video Roles, Alpha Handling, etc.
Best of luck in getting yourself back up to speed! Dead harddrives are indeed sad (and stressful) events.
— Joby.
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Good thoughts–thank you. I hadn’t really considered the advantage of cache files external to the library, so never worried about it, but I follow what you’re doing here. Will start tinkering with that idea into our workflow.
— Joby.
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Ah, good to know Jeremy–thanks! Would that be a good strategy prior to archiving a library? I’ve typically gone into the library to manually delete those analysis files.
— Joby.
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Making the assumption that most or all footage is external to the library, and you’ve duplicated the original movie library to make a trailer library, to Gary’s question, if your storage doubled from 900 to 1800, then there’s definitely a concern that all external footage got duplicated in the process of creating a new library. But, if you had 900 before and after the trailer library was created, then you’re probably in good shape.
Two thoughts:
1. it seems that the Library Properties inspector inside FCPX shows total storage for the library in the “Original” category regardless of where the clips actually reside (i.e., inside or outside of the library). If the both the movie library and the trailer library both say 900, then they’re probably just reporting the same size because they’re both pointing to the same media. However, I would expect that number to drop over time as you delete media from the trailer library.
2. double-check actual library size at the Finder level (outside of FCPX). If they both say 900, then you know what’s inside of each library is indeed 900. One thing I’ve noticed is that even though you can delete Proxies and Renders from within FCPX, Analysis files get left behind, and that storage can get pretty big over time, especially if you’ve done a lot of work with Stabilization and Optical Flow.
— Joby.