From the course: Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

A tour of the FCP X interface: Basic clip viewing and organization - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

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A tour of the FCP X interface: Basic clip viewing and organization

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- [Instructor] So how does this look inside of Final Cut? I'm going to hop inside the application so that we can take a look. And here is what a Final Cut Pro X library looks like. I actually have the Final Cut Pro X Essential Training library that's been included with this course if you have a premium membership. And if we take a look at the inside of its contents by clicking on the disclosure triangle here, you'll see that it has several events. Many of these events refer to clips that we're using throughout the project that we imported inside of Final Cut. And again, some of those clips actually happen to be stills that you see here based on the image file name. And if I scroll up within it, the Chocolatary Clips event, eventually, I'll also see clips inside of it as well or my video footage. In this particular instance, I also have a Project event, and this contains all the Final Cut Pro projects that are contained within this library. So looking at in the opposite direction, we've got your library that contains several events, and inside those events, exists projects, as well as clips that we are using to place inside of projects. And this is how that Final Cut Pro X structure looks. So this is inside of Final Cut. Now, what about on your system? At any point in time, there's always a link between your library that exists in Final Cut and where it's being saved on your system. In fact, if you right-click a library, you'll see that there is an option to reveal it in the Finder, wherever you've chosen to save it. And by default, again, this is going to be your Movies folder. We take a look right here, you can see there's my Final Cut Pro X library. This actually happens to be at my desktop right now. And while I can double-click it, I really can't see inside that library by default. Now, this next step, I don't recommend that you follow along. Just sit back and watch, and we can just see how the structure of this library is. 'Cause we really don't want to make an accidental change in here, which will affect the way that things will be viewed inside of Final Cut Pro X. Now, if you right-click on the library, I can show its Package Contents. And here, we start to see similar to how we viewed the events inside of Final Cut Pro X. So you might have remembered that there was an event specifically for my Chocolatary Clips. And if I double-click inside of that, there actually happens to an Original Media folder. If I double-click that, here are the clips that exist within that event. Inside my macOS system, I can choose, of course, to also look at this in list view. But here is what exists inside that Final Cut Pro X event. So the final structure that we see in Final Cut from libraries to events to clips is the same on our macOS. We've got the library container that have our events inside, as well as have our clips and our assets and our projects. Now that we've taken a look at the Final Cut Pro X file structure, we're now ready to move around and get more familiar with its interface.

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