How To Save A TON Of Hard Drive Space By Deleting Render Files In Final Cut Pro

Tired of running out of hard drive space because your Final Cut Pro Library keeps ballooning up in size? Well, use this handy trick to delete the render files in your Final Cut Pro Library and recover tons of storage space!

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[FreshVinylReviews]

Oh my goodness, this justed saved me! Such an overlooked feature and task for FCP users. I had 497gb in the library cache! No wonder i was having issues with just importing photos into FCP for edits. And just this morning I was trying to export a 21gb video but it would not export and would just "failed to export". Ive been having this space issue for months now and tried finding where the "trash" is or how to free space up that I knew was bogging my harddisk down but just could not find the right info. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[addisondb]

THANK YOU!! This just cleared over 50GB of storage for me 😭😭 life saver

[KourttneyL]

THANK YOU!!! I’ve been wondering how to do this for a few years. I lost the video that shows you how to do it. This is straight to the point. 👏🏻 ❤

[KeepCuriousCo]

Thank you for sharing this! I feel like this is the most overlooked and under-appreciated FCP tip. Once you work this into your routine, it makes your workflow so much easier.

[MesarosRonel]

I have 240 GB in cache and I was looking for a long time how to delete the already used files but couldn't find them. You saved me. Thank you!

[bonazend]

Does it affect my recents project i working on?

[tokke]

Can you delete them while working on a project of better after the project is finished? Wil it affect the quality?

[IanLai]

U just helped me save 100GB!!! Thanks!

[xsratv]

This is great! I have been doing it wrong the entire time.

[DPrintSOS]

Thanks Matthew. I literally had TBs of render files. Ooof.

[d.d.jacksonpoetryproject]

What about the optimized and proxy files?

[taraprasadpatnaik]

you are my saviour great work thank you helped a lot

[HamunM]

Yoooo!!! You just saved me thought about this issue, cause i was soo low on gb. thank you!

[goodshotsproductions]

This won't delete the analysis files. Any tips on what to with those after a project is finished?

[bwilesuk]

ALWAYS purge render files before archiving!

[thrillababyy]

I’m working on a video and FCP keeps rendering for a long time every small edit I make .what should I do ?

[THEBEARDEDMUKFILMS]

So this will clear up my MacBook Pro storage? Because a lot of it is taken up by FCP

[__Lopps]

Thank you so much. Saved me 994gb. I wish I was joking. My projects weren't even exporting.

[BenjaminGib]

I’ve been making YouTube shorts lately for my sister’s YouTube channel, and now I gotta really be aware of how much screen space YouTube overlays cover. I need to make a title safe. Because like in your video, the Like and other buttons on the right are blocking the key info of your library size you were showing. Maybe it’s more prevalent viewing on my iPhone 8 + tho.

[noisefekt]

I had no luck deleting those files, not sure why. It used to work but not anymore.