Seems the bulk of the memory is taken up in the ‘Events folder > ‘New Event’ (I didn’t name it). I don’t get this as the media is held elsewhere and surely FCPX is simply pointing to these files?
When I investigated, it appears it has actually imported the files and duplicated them, so the raw camera footage has been duplicated.
This is very annoying as now have to split media within that folder to archive. The only other way I can think to do it, is to just not copy this when I back up and then if I delve back into the project, dump all the files that I have already backed up separately (camera raw) into this folder and hopefully FCPX will recognise it. Have a sneaking suspicion this won’t work tho as it appears to have changed the file names in some cases, adding (id) to all EX1 camera files.
Did I select the wrong option when I first brought the footage into FCPX? Is there a way of avoiding this in future?
Olly Lawer