Transcoding files and creating proxies

- Sometimes you might find that you have footage that…doesn't play very well with your system because it's…too big, or maybe it's the way your file was recorded.…You see, when recording to certain cameras, the job is to…record as much information on your memory cards as possible.…This data can be so tightly wrapped that when you bring it…onto your computer, it has no room to breathe.…Then there are 360 and 4K cameras that record so much data…that if you bring it onto a laptop that doesn't have a lot…of performance, it will drop frames or not even…play back at all.…

This is why Final Cut Pro 10 allows you to create…transcoded or proxy material of your original files.…Let's explore both options and see what happens…in Final Cut and on our system when we do.…So, in the last movie, we saw the differences between…leaving files in place and copying files…to Final Cut Pro 10.…In this movie, we're going to look at what happens…when we choose to create optimized or proxy media…to work with inside the application.…Now that we've imported footage into our footage event,…