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Transferring from a card into Final Cut Pro X

Transferring from a card into Final Cut Pro X

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Transferring from a card into Final Cut Pro X

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- I found the other day when I went to import, that there's different ways to get my footage into the computer as far as the card reader goes. I was using the built-in card reader on my MacBook Pro, and it seemed fine, it worked, I had an SD card so no big deal. And then I had a second card, so I plugged in an external USB 3.0 reader. - Yep. - What'd I discover? - It was much faster. - A lot faster. - Yeah, in fact we talked about this in a previous week's episode that for whatever reason the internal busing on a lot of laptops and other computers with those memory card readers are not gonna give you the fastest transfer speeds. In our experience we found that using an external memory card reader, in this case you have a USB 3.0 reader, there are FireWire ones. On older machines there might be Express three, four card slot ones. The point is, that there are faster options for transferring. - [Rich] Yeah and when you do that they come up right there, listed. And you really wanna go for…

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