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Media management introduction

Media management introduction - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Media management introduction

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- [Instructor] Throughout the rest of this chapter, we're going to focus on Final Cut Pro X's media management system. And the first thing I want to mention to you is when we look at the media management inside of Final Cut Pro X is that there's a lot of flexible tools to manage media within and between libraries. Some of this media management we've already done by creating keyword collections and smart collections to easily find and keep our clips organized. We also saw how it's extremely easy to copy media from one library to another, and we're going to expand upon this because on top of this, FCP X has a library database. It is tracking all of the raw source material that has either been copied over to the library or exists in another place, so it has basically a file inside the library that's saying, hey, I'm keeping track of wherever your files are in your system if they were left in place. So all that source media is going to be tracked and we can take all this database and…

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