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Original, optimized, and proxy footage

Original, optimized, and proxy footage - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X

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Original, optimized, and proxy footage

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- If you're familiar with advanced workflows, it's really valuable to know the difference between your original footage, optimized footage, and proxy footage. Let's see how Final Cut 10 handles them. I'm going to start a second library here. I'm going to right click and say close this library. I'm going to go up to the file menu, create a new library. I'm going to call this 2.2 optimize and proxy. I'm going to now import some media. I'm going to rename this event before we get started. We'll call it Go Pro footage. I'm about to bring Go Pro footage in. And Go Pro footage happens to be h.264. It's a great codec for compression. It's not great for computers. We're going to have Final Cut do some intelligent stuff here. I'm going to hit this check mark. I want you to see these background tasks here. And I'm going to import that media. There's those two Go Pro clips. Now with them selected, I'm going to back them copied to the library this time. But I'm also going to have it create…

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