How To Organise Your Material Within Final Cut Pro X | Libraries, Events, Keywords & Projects!

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Hello everyone!
In this video, I try to demystify the organizational structure of Final Cut Pro X.
Let's figure out together what libraries, events, keywords, and projects are!

I hope this video will help you understand how to organize your material within the software so that you can move on to the most exciting bit which is the actual editing of your videos!

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[DomSigalas]

Power user tip level. All final cut users need more of these!

[andrewp]

That’s the best thumbnail I’ve ever seen!! 👍👍

[carlosparraga]

Hi from Spain. Excellent !! I am underwater professional photographer and use FCPX for slideshows (not video) . I confess that although its all clear I could't concentrate as my eyes constantly moved to such a pretty teacher well done. Fantastic job and very easy to understand for any one using FCPX . Will follow you for more

[ELTExperiences]

Thanks for the explanation. Simple and easy to understand.

[lepee]

Very well explained.
slow enough so that we can "register" what you're explaining.
Well done.

[jaisaladitya]

This helped me so much, I understand this stuff better now. Here's your new subscriber!

[markrussell.]

The best video on this topic on Youtube, coming from Premiere Pro this was very confusing for me. I must have watched 2 dozen videos on this subject yours helped the most. Subscribed and Liked!

[ezrakoper]

Excelent explainion (and I have seen many). Another option that I think is working (tested bfeadly by myself) is to create manually folders inside a work you did (let's say wedding) and under this wedding folder create folder camera-a camera-b audio drone, etc. Then copy all the footage to the various folders.

Next create a New Library for the wedding event and save it in the same master wedding folder.

Next add all the folders to the default event created.

This will automatically generate lots of keys. One for each folder. So now you can easily find all video from drone, camera a, b, etc.

And it seems to work very well

[irlrocky]

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[TaoCovillault]

Very good explaination, I'm not a beginner in FCPX but i'm always curious of videos like this because I always try to find a more efficient workflow. Especially in term of footages selection and deleting unnecessary files from my libraries.

I know "final cut isn't supposed to delete clips, and shouldn't be"

But at the end, when it's time for editing, we all end up with unwanted clips that we have no intention to use or even to store for the future...

Unfortunately, neither internal or external workflow allows to simply "put in the trash fully rejected clips".

And that's for me the biggest downside of FCPX. I always wish that it worked like lightroom (reject->delete rejected files), sort of emptying a trash.

My walkaround so far:
- Organize my files on my SSD in external first, by type (video, audio, stills) then subfolders by days of the event and then (or directly if 1 day shoot) by camera.
- Then import them AS INTERNAL COPY keeping folder structure as keyword. This create duplicates, but my SSD is in APFS so no extra space is used.
- Then during my selection I move rejected clips to a "TRASH" event.

Then when my edit is done and ready to archive, I will:
- consolidate my library
- delete the TRASH event
- delete the external medias (copied anyway in the lib)
And finally, export my whole library to a new library with the same name but with the suffix "_ARCHIVE" into my archive drive.

And this way, the non used files into the trash event will not be copied.

I still think this is a very intricated way of simply deleting unwanted file but this is what seem to work the best for me...
Do you have any better solution by any chance?
Thank you

[ravinaidu]

Hi Iro, What is the best way to organize music video for YT? I want to create YT clips of songs. Should it be Library ---> Events for Song A, Song B etc? I use logic to create projects (or songs). I will record the video using iPhone and audio from Logic. Not sure where Project within context of FCP fits in since Events (are my projects or songs).

[marjorielazo]

when using leave files in place do you have to also save music from your apple music onto the external hard drive or does fcpx save it to library ?

[mhpreach]

Here’s the way I’ve been organizing mine on an external drive. I do two sermons a week up load to YouTube PE, rumble and Facebook. If knew of others would go their as well. Anyway. I put each in its own library, then event and the project. Series lesson I put in the same library with a different event / project for each individual lesson. Any suggestions?

[marjorielazo]

is there a way to only copy song files/ overlays, etc in library? and only leave footage in place?

[peterpeper]

Hi Iro, arent you the voice on this track (4:47)?

[renodigitalservice]

4 Minutes before you started to get in to the real staff that's ridicules!!!