Now that you have a solid understanding
of library structures that hierarchy
and how you might want to set them up organizationally,
I think what we want to do is start from scratch.
Let's have the audience understand what it takes when
you create a new library, what happens
where the media goes. I think that would
be a very good place to start.
Yeah, and this is well, this is the beginning point and
this is the point at which you decide
how the library gets set up
and where the media's going to go.
So let's dive in here.
Right.
So let's create a new library.
I'm gonna go to the File menu > New > Library
A dialogue comes up,
asks you to save, and name your library
and you could store your library on any drive.
And any location, it doesn't have to be at the root,
so you can choose exactly where you want to store it,
and that decision by the way,
let's come back to where you might want
to store it because it has to do with
whether or not you're going to put the
media inside it.
Right.
So where are you going to put yours for now?
First, I want to name it.
I want to create a library that's all about California diving.
Ok.
So I'm going to type out
California Underwater
and I'm going to just save it right to my Movies folder.
That's the default, right?
That's the default, and I'm going to
comes up by default
but if you have an external drive like I do
here, this Ripple Media you could store it on any external drive
as you can see I already have some
libraries right existing there.
I'm just going to put it in the Movies folder and
also something that's new is
if you tag things in the Finder,
they get tagged when you bring them in.
Ah, so these are Finder tags where it says tags there.
So the feature of in Mavericks where you
can apply tags, in fact if you already have
you've created custom tags
already for other reasons
and they're all available here.
They're all available.
So you can choose those or you could create a new tag here
and it would be imported as a keyword collection.
Right.
I'm going to,
I already have a tag called Underwater Video,
but I can just tag it that way, right,
Ok.
just right there, because it's already there.
Yeah.
Right.
I'm going to click Save.
Now, you'll notice that I have a new library
up here called California Underwater
and something that's new to Final Cut 10.1.2 is that
you have this new area that opens automatically when a new library is created.
So the Inspector opened by itself, you didn't open it.
I didn't open it.
and it reveals this thing called Library Properties
and this is probably the most important
thing to know about in 10.1.2,
related to media management.
Right, is that you're setting up your library,
you're telling Final Cut Pro where your media is going to go.
Where you're copying it.
Where you're copying it,
when you import.
Exactly.
So here under Library Properties,
the first thing I want to point out
is where the media is physically stored on your hard drive
where the library is
where the library is, sorry
In this case it's stored on the
Macintosh hard drive you saw me save it there.
So your root drive
because you never renamed your huge
Macintosh HD.
No. It's Macintosh HD, right.
So here, the next section Storage Locations
that is, like it sounds,
it's your storage locations for your media,
in Storage Locations is actually
broken down into three subsections.
You have Media, Cache, and Backups.
Right.
So let's go through each in turn.
Media would be,
well, like it sounds, media that you import-
video clips off your camera, or CF card,
your hard drive, could be photos,
sound files, animation files,
anything related to the
project you're going to be building.
So anything you import
will be in this
is represented under the Media section.
That's right.
Ok.
Then the next section, Cache,
that essentially is your render
files and your analysis files.
So, when you generate an effect at the high
quality that gets stored as a render file,
if you're analyzing, let's say a
camera something with camera shake in it
stabilization, optical flow,
that gets stored.
That's that's essentially what's called the cache.
Ok.
and also thumbnails
all those little thumbnails that get
drawn in the waveforms,
that's part of the cache as well.
Got it. Right.
So, look what's happening here.
By default, Final Cut Pro is putting that in the library-
more on that in a moment-
last thing here, Backups.
Those are what they sound like,
they're backups of your library because
it's possible that you can accidentally
delete a library or it can become
corrupted or what have you
you can back up from
this backup.
You can restore it from the backups because it's backing up
automatically for you to that location.
Right, and by default Final Cut Pro puts
the backups folder in the user's Movies
folder. Right.
So, let's talk about this section here- Media and Cache
because that's essentially
you know the building blocks
that's where, that's what's taking up all the drive space.
Where's your media going when you
connect the camera or a CF card
where's a media going?
When you copy it where is it going to be copied to?
Exactly.
And what this is telling us is that
it's going to go in the library
it's going to be copied directly into
the library bundle,
what Apple calls a managed library.
And that's the default setting and if you're an individual
editor that's probably what you want to do.
Well, yeah, because well, you can take that
library and just move it around at will
move it to different computers drives
all the media goes with it.
Completely self-contained.
In fact, we said earlier, it's like a suitcase,
so you can literally move it around,
you don't have to worry about offline clips.
Probably the simplest set-up
is a, is this
a managed library.
In fact, this is exactly the way iMovie is.
In that you don't have any other choice.
It's a managed library.
So, there are instances
where you don't want your media in the library.
For example, let's say you and I are on a network and we want to share the media.
Well, if all the media is in the library, how are you going to access it?
In that case you'd want it in some
external location where multiple editors
would have access to it.
Right.
So let's look at quickly how to set that up.
We're not going to do it because
Mark is going to go through that much later
in some of the scenarios lessons but
I at least want to introduce you to the concept now.
Great.
Ok, so here we are in the storage locations.
You have this new button called Modify Settings.
If you click this button,
a window will come up and there's your three subsections.
Exact same three that we see
there- Media, Cache, and Backups.
That's right, and it's all related to this
library that's selected- California Underwater.
Right, so we already defined what these are,
and by default it's set for, In Library
a managed library.
Got it.
But you can override that with this pop up,
and you simply set Choose
and then I'm going to put this media on an external drive
here I have one called Ripple Media
and I'm going to create a new folder to put it in.
I'm going to put Underwater Media
and I'm going to click Create.
So I have this folder and I'm going to click Choose.
Now notice the media is now targeted
for this external folder. I'm going to click Ok.
You can do the same thing for Cache,
which we're not going to do right now.
I just want to show you the process of how you retarget.
So I'm going to click ok,
and the first thing you'll notice is that in the Media section
the folder is now targeted for your media
not the library.
So now if you
import media it won't be copied into the library
it will be copied to that folder.
Correct.
and a cool thing is by the way,
if you, when you're importing media
if you choose to transcode the media
because you want to make optimized media
or proxy media, that transcoded media
will also be placed in that external folder,
and that's a new feature.
It's a brand new feature.
People have been asking for that.
I don't want all of my optimized
and proxy media inside the library.
And previous to this version that's the only
place it existed.
Yeah, so this is a huge
deal for people who are doing
collaborative workflows.
Huge, huge. Ok, so
just wanted to walk you through that we're going
to go into much more detail later, but
what I want to do is set this back to In Library.
Ok.
So, let me to go back to
the Modify Settings button.
I'm going to set this back to In Library
and I'm going to go ahead and click ok.
Notice the icon changes and we're back to a
managed library.
Alright, so let's bring in some media.
Now when I created the library, an event was automatically created for me, and it
essentially named it with the date today.
Ok.
And you know, somewhat useful but I typically like to rename these.
I always rename them.
Yeah, why not? So I'm going to call this Kelp Forest because
this event is going to be
related to kelp forest. So I'm going to hit return,
ok, and I'm going to start
importing media directly into that event.
It's interesting that you don't really
import media into a library,
you import it into an event that's in a library.
Right.
So I'm going to go ahead and click Import Media,
and I'm going to navigate to my external drive
and here I have a folder of media.
I'm not going to bring in a bunch of it i'll
just select a couple of clips here
and I'm going to click Import Selected.
Right.
and we get the Import dialog, now
this has changed quite a bit from the
previous version.
Previously, you have the option
to select an external library
right here in this window.
But we've already done that.
We've already done that. We did that in the library
properties inspector.
So it assumes that you want to copy it to the library.
In fact, that's your only choice.
That's your only choice. So that's really the main change
in this window,
is now you don't have the option here
because you've already made that decision,
so instead of needing to decide every time you import,
wait a minute, am I going to
go in the library external, it's like
no, you don't need to deal with that you've
set it up once, it's like set it and
forget it.
Set it when you create the library.
Set it and forget it.
and now it's just copy the library.
There's no option to copy to an external location.
Right, so when I click Import that those two files
that I have selected in the Import window
they will be copied into the library.
Ok.
There's one other option we're
going to look at a minute but I want to
introduce him now it's called Leave files in place.
Essentially what that is
someone hands you a drive with media on it.
You don't want to copy it into the library.
You just want to reference a library.
In other words they hand you
a drive with, a terabyte, two terabytes of stuff, you don't want to copy that in,
you just want to reference it where it is,
you want to leave it in place.
All right, so wait a minute,
because you just got through telling me
we set up the library either to be inside or outside.
It's very simple,
A or B, inside or outside, and
we set the library up as inside, as managed,
so like I'm done,
but now I also still have the option
not to copy the files anywhere
but to leave files right where they are.
That's right.
And leave them outside the library
so even with a managed library, you can have files that
are outside the library.
Yeah, even with a managed library you can
still reference external files.
And you said it, the key was this, the key is "copy".
We're not copying anything.
When you hookup a camera or hard drive you are copying media
into the library. In this sense we're not
copying we're just simply referencing it.
And you want that flexibility.
You want to be able to, in any instance, whether
you have a managed library or external
media, you want the option to be able to
leave media where it is, like you say if
somebody hands you a drive full of media
and you don't want to have to copy it all,
you just want to point to it.
Right. Ok.
So, I'm going to go ahead and go back to Copy to library
and we'll just leave everything the way it is.
Those of you who are already familiar with Final Cut Pro,
everything up here is related to
where it's going to go inside Final Cut,
everything below this line is where it's
going to go relative to where it's
stored on your hard drive.
All right, so I'm just going to click Import.
All right, instantly those clips come in.
If I open up the background task manager you can
see, background task window you can see
that the clips are being copied into the library.
Great.
So what I want to do is reinforce this idea
of the media being copied into the library,
a managed library,
and the quickest way to reinforce that or show you
is to right-click on the library itself
and choose Reveal in Finder
and that will of course take us to the library location
in this case in the Movies folder
and, if you right click on the library itself
you can choose Show Package Contents
which will reveal the contents of that package.
Ok, cuz that, it is a package that library is
actually a bundle and technically you
can't open it, you can't double-click it
to open it that will just launch Final Cut,
but you are going inside the bundle here to take a look.
Right, and it's worth pointing out that normally you don't
ever need to go into the bundle.
I'm just, we're just going in there to show you
what's actually happening under the hood.
We're never going to change anything in here.
That's right, in fact if you start
going into changing stuff in the bundle you're going to encounter some problems.
Don't go there.
So, here you'll notice
there's a folder called Kelp Forest.
It's a folder that mirrors the event name in the library.
So, clearly this event really is basically a folder.
It's basically a folder. Exactly.
But if I open the original media folder by clicking on it
you'll see those are the two clips that were copied into it.
And those are real clips right there.
They're not any references so copy those clips directly
into the library.
Exactly.
Perfect. Got it.
Alright, so let's look at one more example, Mark.
I'm gonna go back to Final Cut Pro,
and I'm going to select the event,
and I'm going to open the Import window one more time
and I wanted to select a couple of other clips here
I'm just gonna, let's go ahead and select these ones down here at the bottom,
click Import Selected,
and this time we're going to choose Leave files in place.
Ok.
In this case we're not going to be copying them, we're just going to be referencing them.
I'm going to click Import,
and they come right in.
Just like that, okay.
So immediately they're available. There was no copying going on.
There was a little bit of activity going on in that
background task window but I believe that's just generating the waveforms for those clips.
Yes, you can open this up
and that's all it's doing is generating
background wave forms and thumbnails and what have you.
But, point is, let's go back out and look at the library again, see what happened.
If I right click and choose Reveal in Finder,
go back and open up the Finder bundle again,
Show Package
and go into Kelp Forest
into original media you'll notice something here,
you'll notice that I have two real clips,
what I call real clips.
The first two you imported.
Right, and these two clips are what they call sim clips,
or short for symbolic clips.
Symbolic links to the original media.
To the original media because again we didn't
copy into the library.
In fact it says right there the kind is an alias.
It's an alias, a sim-link, a reference file.
Right, in fact it's very, very small.
It's very, very small, in fact if you right click on
it and choose Show Original
it'll actually behave exactly like an alias
it'll bring you to where the original
media is in this case on my external drive.
Got it.
Ok, so you have the option whether you choose a managed library or
external library, you always have this option to do, Leave in place.
Always have the option to Leave in place.
Back in Final Cut Pro, I wanted to show you one other thing.
If I select the library and look at the library properties,
you'll notice something down here called Media Locations.
Final Cut Pro is aware that
that media exists on two separate drives
and will actually visually show you this
right here. There's Macintosh HD,
there's Ripple Media.
So it's telling me I have
media on two different drives.
I love the entire library properties window because
it tells you up where the library itself lives,
then it tells you where all your
media and cache files are,
and then it tells you what drives contain your actual media,
so basically it's a full information pan on where everything is located.
Where everything is located.
It's terrific.
Now at some point we might
want to take all the media and bundle it
all up would you know consolidated to
one drive which we're not going to do
now, but it's really helpful visually to
see what's going on.
Exactly.
It's beautiful.
So what we want to do now is
essentially summarize.
We've covered a lot of material
and it sometimes helps visually to see what's
actually happening and we're visual guys so we
like to make graphics.
So,
so here, let's just do a quick review.
Libraries are production units,
so they're like a little suitcase, and within them
they contain events,
and events contain projects and media
which you can see represented there in the little white rectangle, right?
Now, the media for these events
can exist in one of two locations.
It can reside inside the library,
called a managed library,
or it can reside outside the library,
called external media.
So you can see here you can have your media
sitting on a Pegasus raid or something else
that the library is referencing using sim-links.
So whenever you copy media
into Final Cut Pro when you import
you can choose to copy it into the library
or copy it to an external location.
Now in terms of importing media,
these graphics will help you see that
you're either importing directly into the library,
as in this first graphic on the far left,
and so when you hook up a camera,
connect a camera to
your computer or import from a camera archive,
that media is
copied directly into the library, a managed volume.
In the graphic in the center,
if you have your library set up to external media when
you copy it it'll get copied to an external folder as you see here,
and references, called sim-links are created
to that external folder.
Right, and then the last graphic,
the far right, Leave Files in Place
you're simply,
Final Cut Pro is simply creating wraps or sim-links
to the media files that already exist on the drive.
And the big difference in 10.1.2
is whether you import into the library or
into a folder
is set in that library properties window now,
not every time you import
you set it once,
set it and forget it pretty much,
but then when you import,
you always have this additional option to leave the files where they are.
Always have the additional option.
Fantastic.
So in the next lesson,
we're going to look at specific media management guidelines
that define how
media management takes place in Final Cut Pro 10
and we'll also look at
specific operations, such as consolidate,
using the modify button to change from
manage to external, and moving and
copying, it's a crucial lesson with
regard to how you would manage your media.
Once you understand the basic
guidelines, and the basic commands
there's really nothing you can't do
in terms of managing media in Final Cut.
Excellent.
So that's what we'll do next.