From the course: Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS

Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Organizing files: Keeping it clean on your OS

“

- In this movie, we will talk about creating transcodes in Final Cut Pro X. But before we do, it's important to know why to create transcodes in the first place. Transcodes allow you to establish your editing experience and I have to say that it starts from the beginning. These allow for faster workflows in certain situations depending on the type of camera media or from assets that you've downloaded from particular sites. This is going to allow you to save time. This is why you're going to create transcodes in the first place. And also, because the footage you have isn't optimized for computer playback. In certain situations cameras try to record media in a compressed format so that you can shoot more of it. But when you send this to a computer, it doesn't play very well and involves a lot of system resources. By optimizing your media for playback, your entire editing experience is going to be better. And I have to say the…

Contents