MacBreak Studio Ep. 272 - Final Cut Pro 10.1.2 Media Management Changes

This week on MacBreak Studio, Steve Martin and Mark Spencer from Ripple Training walk us through the biggest change in the Final Cut Pro X update that shipped last week (version 10.1.2): refinements to media management.

You can watch the first three lessons of the tutor in their entirety for free here:

And check out the full tutorial, which covers real-world media management scenarios like freeing up disk space, editing on the road, collaborating with other editors, and archiving, here:

[rllewis]

can you now delete unused media from a library?

[HS-Productionspuntnl]

Is it possible to Delete Genereted Library / Event Files forever? I tried, but when I opened the project by double clicking, it starts rendering automatically

[AxlfroProductions]

How does one update a copied event? Lets say you copied an event from one library to another on a separate drive.  A day later, you made changes on the original event and added more media to it.  How do you "update" that copied event with the changes you made and media you added?  Would you have to to delete it and start the copy over?

[onenarrowdoor]

I can see the benefits of this, but haven't updated to Mavericks yet - too many projects on the go that cannot be completed for months. Those yellow 'other' files in 'about this Mac - storage' take up half my internal hard drive. Final Cut is always the culprit. Would be good to stick everything on externals.

[GameSack]

Hypothetical situation: Let's say that there are a bunch of idiots, myself included, working on a single show in different locations all across the entire world. Each idiot has their own task. The first one assembles the first cuts in order. Next guy keys everything out, guy after that deals with color grading. Next guy does sound. Guy after that does background graphics etc etc etc. Let's assume that all of the editors have downloaded the original files which were stored on the server. Would it cause problems if idiot #1 keeps his files in a different place than idiot #2 on his drives? Say the first guy stores his files in and I store my files in /Volumes/Drive love cheeseburgers/still more media/5574/recent/here they are right in here/JK simply because for some reason that's convenient for me to keep them there. Would the Libraries link up without a hitch once the first guy sent me the Library after he was done with it? Or would I have to tell the Library where things are (I figure I would because how could it know?) Would it complain that it couldn't find

Also, what if someone adds a new file to the project like a graphic that the rest of us didn't have? Are the rest of us screwed? How does he send the Library and just that extra file to the rest of us? Or maybe it was 145 different files he added. I dunno, just trying to think of ridiculous scenarios.