This is the third and last of my series about Apple Final Cut Pro X and Camera Media. Check out the first part and the second part for some tips and tricks you might not know yet. A Possible Logging Workflow – Without Doubling Your Storage Needs Recently I had a back-and-forth with someone on Facebook who was handed a couple hundred gigabytes of camera-cards backed up to one or more hard drives. He wanted to use Final Cut Pro X to log and keyword the footage. If he would ingest the material into Final Cut Pro X, his storage needs would have beed doubled. Remember: when ingesting from cards, Final Cut Pro X copies the footage from the cards, and “Leave Media in Place” cannot be ticked in the import window. He was not sure if the material would ever be edited, but he wanted to get an idea of what he’d got. I put some thought to the problem and came up with a neat workflow to accomplish something like that and came up with this: Press command+I to open the import window. Select a folder containing a backed-up copy of a camera card. Select “Import all” to start the import process. (Alternatively just select the clips you want to import). Close the ingest-window (if you don’t have the option Close window after starting import ticked). Head over to the Background Tasks window by pressing command+9, look for Importing Media and click the little “x” next to it to...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 28 January, 2019