This was terrific. I knew some of these. I did not know them all. Multicam especially has been so disk-thirsty lately. Toggling optimized media off and seeing how it goes! Thanks!
Always new things to learn in FCPX - me included! So glad you’ll be able to save some disk space - I have a feeling that multicams with original media should be no problem for you. If my quad-core 2013 Mac Pro can handle my 4K EOS R and C300 MkII footage, your computer should have no problem with that glorious C500 MkII footage of yours. 🙌🏻🤘🏻
Midland Pictures quad core? Please upgrade to the 10 or 12 core 2690 or 2697, makes a huge difference especially for render times and transcoding times when creating optimized media. Of course the exporting times as well. I have a vid on my channel, takes less than an hour.
Henrik Lindblom Yes! I’ve been meaning to snag a 12-core on eBay but just haven’t done it yet. I have a big project for a client starting soon with a 4K C300 MkII & MkIII workflow so I definitely want to get a performance boost out of my Mac Pro while I still have it. Hoping to upgrade to the new Mac Pro in the next year or so.
Midland Pictures If you’re buying the new Mac Pro you can get the 8 core 2650 really cheap, it is 80 bucks here in Sweden lower base freq but it is 8 cores.
Henrik Lindblom And that would be a huge upgrade over what I have now. For some reason I want to hold out for a 12+ core configuration. Maybe 16-core. Just get crazy and go for it... 🤷🏻♂️🤑
Your films are great. Informative, no waffle, well explained and well thought out. These are gonna be a great help for lots of FCPX users. I hope you get a ton of subscribers to make these worth it. Respect Matt.
You’re too kind! I hope they help advance a lot FCPX-ers. And yeah, the additional subs are never bad. Income from this will certainly help me to produce more and better content. Love doing it!
I was sitting with my client yesterday editing and going a little crazy. He was saying where is this footage of the young girls greeting winton Marsalis in Cuba. From your help I format my 500 SSD. External hard drive and am setting everything up the way you recommended. Thank you again. This can be a game changing project for me. Your work flow is going to make me look great. Thank you again!!!!
Yup, you gotta be able to pull up your footage fast - having it organized in folders, keyword collections is a great start but logging your footage and making it quickly searchable is even better. Glad you learned some new tricks!
Matthew, your content is some of the best out there; you’re very clear and (perhaps weird to say?) soothing and pleasing and the videos look nice and are full of no bs practical wisdom. Thanks again!
Not weird at all! I've gotten that feedback a few times, so I'm glad my demeanor and presentation make it easy for viewers to connect. And thanks for the love on Twitter, too! You're welcome - gonna check you out on Twitch!
I’m about to begin my first project with an M1: 8 GB. Didn’t know when I bought it that I might need more. Just loading 4K from the iPad and phone has filled up my internal drive, so once I can export and recover this space, I was panicked about rendering the project, even with an SSD for external storage. Now I can make a plan. I am so grateful.
Congrats on the new M1! Check out my other vid on how to preserve hard drive space when editing in Final Cut Pro: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-buBp0MvDr30.html
It's my mission to make certain everyone who edits with Final Cut Pro understands these core concepts so that they don't have to suffer when using and managing the application but rather they can get into the creative flow and stay there so they can keep making awesome vids!
Thanks for pointing out that some people are creatives, and don't feel so comfortable with the mechanics, I haven't really heard that acknowledged before and I feel better that I can't be the only one. Obviously I need to do the technical stuff as well and I want to because I like to have control over my own work. I also am a bit OCD and like to have my files in order. Can't work otherwise. FCP can be frustrating in this regard, but thank you for showing us how to manage them. For myself at least, it's so important
I don't hear it acknowledged often either. The most I've heard it acknowledged is in TV and Film where editors rely on their assistant editors to handle a lot of the technical-minded things while the editor is focusing on using their art/craft to help the director achieve his/her vision. Of course there are plenty of gigs below that where editors don't have an assistant editor or a post-production supervisor and they're on their own to manage it all. Which is unfortunate. Glad to meet a fellow OCD with organization editor. And I, personally, feel FCP is the *best* with file organization - but it's taken years of learning all the details and nuances of the software to fully understand how to take advantage of its powerful organization tools. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Absolutely outstanding video. Best advice on FCPX I’ve seen in a long time. Professional, practical and am so glad I stumbled upon your channel. Well done, sir!. I use FCPX all the time, and you nailed it.
What’s going on right here brother...Your channel you have at least 100k subscribers, but I don’t know anything, all I know is that you have a superior and excellent content on your channel. Thanks so much! New subscriber just now.
Thanks for the kinds words, Phillip! 100k subs would be insane! Thanks for watching and subscribing! So excited to grow this channel and help all my viewers level up their filmmaking!
I have never opened final cut and I’ve barely ever edited any video but I watched this entire video. Your explanation is so clear and concise that I can’t believe I subscribed. Now i want to learn FCPX just cos of how you talk about it. I hope oneday I’ll meet a girl that talks about me the way you talk about the magnetic timeline
Again I can’t express my gratitude enough. You are going to make me look like a extremely organized video edit after my episode with my client on Wednesday. I was looking for this one video clip for about a hour. When I meet with him again on Friday. Your world flow is going to make me blow his mind how quickly I will be able to find clips. Thanks again!!!
You're so welcome, Edward! Glad you're going to invest the time into logging your footage so you can get solid results for your client - nothing's worse than sitting in the edit bay with a client who wants to see a particular clip and you can't quickly find it. Keep improving! And thanks for watching my vids. 🙌🏻🤘🏻
As a new FCP user and coming from Davinci, your videos have really been helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to create these videos to make working in FCP easier. Keep up the great work!
Appreciate the kind words, Spencer! I'm a big fan of DaVinci and everything Blackmagic is doing to improve the software - I use it frequently for transcoding and processing dailies when I'm on set, but I will always be an FCPX editor! Thanks for watching and don't hesitate to reach out if you ever need help!
I’m hoping because I’ve only been doing FCPX tutorials for 6 months, and it just hasn’t fully caught on yet... 🤷🏻♂️ I guess ya’ll just need to like, share, subscribe even more! 🤣🙌🏻
Great videos Matthew. Just recently turned my back on Premier after using it for many years. Dipped my toes in the water with FCPX whist working with the BBC in 2017 and now use it as my go to edit system. Your info is making my life so much easier. Had a large edit this week and stumbled over your channel while I was working on it, and I am now speeding up my workflow. Many thanks to you.
That is amazing to hear! Honestly, it gets me pumped for creating more content and fielding questions in the comments. I've seen FCPX's adoption ramp up significantly in the UK and Europe, especially on shows where there is a TON of content from dozens of cameras (sporting events, etc.). It is such an amazing tool, and I'm glad you've found it to be essential in your video editing arsenal. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! Excited to hear more about your work with the BBC. 🙌🏻🤘🏻👏🏻
Thank you. I got a better understanding of working with FCPX. I always copy my video files into my FCPX library. After this I will leave my files in folders in my finder. I’m not great on going looking for stuff due to using so many external hard drives. Yet I get tired of seeing my hard showing limited space on the drive.
Yeah, this can be a common issue with some editors. I know how expensive mass storage can be, but unfortunately a lot of editors end up with a ton of random external hard drives that they have to navigate. Although some can handle, I personally could never stand it. Splurging on even a used Promise Pegasus2 R4 with 3 or 4GB hard drives (to make 12 to 16TB of total storage) is highly recommended. There's one on eBay right now (with 12TB) for $800 or best offer: ebay.us/T2qmMq
Great to hear that, Oscar! It isn't always necessary to even render at all - I turn it off often during the rough editing process because I'm not applying effects, grading, or using complex transitions usually. It can certainly make the editing process smoother and reduce overall project size. Thanks for watching!
So I finally decided to turn off the automatic background Rendering, I just bought a 16GB and 256GB M1 Mac mini and was suffering with the project file size but I made some tests and this little beast can handle 4K footage from FilmicPro without rendering just fine, also tried Multicam and played smoothly, I came from LumaFusion on the iPad Pro and the logic behind rendering there is completely different but very polished none the less, again, thanks a lot for the amazing video!
This is the single best Explanation video about the hidden boring (but insanely important) stuff, in FCPX. I’ve been editing for 6 years and I got most of the stuff covered by now, but really wish I had this video 4 years ago. Thanks man 🙏👏💯
So kind of you to say, Benjamin! I wish I had made this video (and the channel) 4 years ago! Feel like I've missed out on really helping editors like you earlier on... Never too late, though! Thanks for watching, brother!
Matthew, Once again you provide terrific information. I've been using FCP for years but never learned some of the things you presented here. I'll keep looking for your "beginner" videos so that I don't embarrass myself by not knowing something. Thanks so much!
Haha - sounds good! So glad you're getting value out of my vids. Definitely hoping to elevate everyone's editing and storytelling. Thanks for watching!
That means a lot, Edward! Thanks for the kind words. This video was really personal in the sense that I had been seeing so many FCP editors (new and veteran) posting a lot of the same issues over and over again in forums and Facebook groups, and I just had to take all of the most common ones and provide insight and solutions. So glad this video is connecting with viewers. Thanks for watching!
Nicely done. Been an FCP Studio and FCPX editor for for 15 years (an editor for 30). Am sending your file to a couple of our new editors... I’ve also explained these issues, however, I love the way you have explained these issues and maybe this will get my points across in a better and more succinct manner. I Thank You.
Thank You! This video has helped massively, with my editing I have spent hours figuring out how to fix these problems! But now this video has solved them all! Brilliant
So great to hear that! Glad it was helpful. Let me know if there’s anything else that’s making getting proficient with FCP difficult. Always looking for new things to make videos about! 🙌🏻🤘🏻
@@matthewTobrien Hello, again! I find that whenever I edit on Final Cut Pro X my media gets compressed, I was wondering if you can set how much you want your media to be compressed? And when I upload my video to RU-vid, it is completely different quality to the edited version. Again is there anything to fix this? Thanks
You may have FCP set to create Proxy media when you import footage. You can go to Preferences > Import in FCP to disable the "create proxy media" option. Uploading to RU-vid is always going to add compression - not only when you export out of Final Cut but when RU-vid does THEIR thing to your video to make it more compatible with their platform. I export all of my vids simply using the RU-vid/Facebook preset built in to FCP, and when I watch back on my phone or AppleTV it looks excellent. As long as HD and 4K processing has completed (which can take a while depending on the source codec of your video and the video's length). Just remember, if you upload your video and immediately publish it, you're only going to be able to view their Standard Definition version right away and that version always looks like hot garbage.
I’d argue FCPX has great customisation for window arrangement, not limited. You can turn on and off panes and browsers and more with a single button or shortcut, instead of wasting time rearranging and resizing five or six windows which may overlap. Never mind the custom layouts you’ve mentioned, which I use every day.
For me personally, I am more than happy with it. For folks coming over from other NLEs or After Effects, I can see how it's a little frustrating. Only because all the windows are locked together and you can''t completely rearrange them how you see fit - for example, maybe some folks like the Inspector on the left-hand side of the screen - they can't move it there. Doesn't bother me at all but for some who are used to total layout control, it can be frustrating. Thanks for watching, Ben!
Haha - I've heard that a few times. Definitely had the tone of a teacher scolding his students, but it was all with a foundation of love! Just want to help everyone level up their editing and post-production game! One video at a time...
I can’t express my appreciation for your help with your FCPX template tree!!!! I’m in the tail end of the biggest video editing project I have ever done. From your tutorial videos. I’m starting to use your FCPX template tree and I love it. I’m also starting to use copy video file into library but leave in place. I’m using your FCPX TEMPLATE TREE & placing my footage, etc. into these folders. I’m also using Notes to log in my footage etc now. Thank you!!!
So great to hear this, Edward! I know it's a simple concept to use a folder and library tree for your projects, but it really is the foundation for good organization and getting started with your projects much faster. So glad my templates are valuable to you and your clients!
@@matthewTobrien Got my new MacBook Pro M1 and I am in heaven. Talk about value, it downloaded FCPX from the app store that I paid for 8 years ago! No ongoing subscription like Adobe. But it’s super easy to accidentally disconnect an external drive while working in my recliner. I’ve already had to use First Aid to fix a crashing FCPX.
I am even more excited to checking out your contents after fully watching this, I’m amazed how Pro you are. 🙌🏼🎉 Thanks very much for everything you done. 👏🏼
As I am starting to get back into FCPX and Working on my Channel....THIS WAS AMAZING! THANK YOU! NOW IM EVEN MORE PUMPED FOR THE PROCESS AND FUTURE OF EDITING AND RU-vid!!! CHEERS!
Love to hear that, Brandon! Glad they have value for you, and I hope all the tips and tricks help you get faster and more efficient with your own content creation! 🙌🏻🤘🏻
Great video. One common issue i have seen is where you try to export a project that crashes before it completes. I usually look for black frames only to find out the issue is because there is not enough space for the video to export. Magnetic timeline i have one gripe though, if you have videos of people singing to a previously recorded song lining up lip movements with the vocal can be a nightmare
True! Video can only move one frame at a time and sometimes you need to move it in sub-frames to get it line up with your audio. Luckily your audio (as long as it's not part of a video clip) can be moved at the sub-frame level so that can certainly be helpful. Thanks for watching, Wayne! Happy editing!
This is amazing. I've finally chosen to go with FCPX full-time for my latest projects and your videos have helped me tremendously in taking a deep dive into the software.
So great to hear this, John! And stay tuned because there's plenty more FCPX and post-production workflow videos coming in 2021. Can't thank all of you who are watching, liking, subscribing, and sharing - the revenue this generates allows me to devote more and more time to the channel and not only improve the quality of the content overall ... but increase the quantity as well. Thank you!!! And Happy New Year!
Would like to see more about the backup libraries bit. I've noticed that at some point they get too old to work. You have to not make certain big changes in your library, I think. And how often does it do this backup bit? I think it was once an hour. The bit about saving your work every step of the way is sometimes called journaling. The editors in OpenVMS (at least the EDT editor) save all of your keystrokes in a journal file, so if the system crashes, you run the command EDIT/EDT /RECOVER. And you're back in business! Final Cut does that recovery part for you automatically. So maybe it's not quite the same thing. Anyway, I noticed that it doesn't make a full copy, just the essentials that let you recover to that point in time.
This was great, Matthew - thank you! I'm 100% technical and roughly 0% creative, so all of this stuff made sense to me once I related the NLE terms to technical terms (render files:cache for instance) [after I Googled NLE]. I haven't even started my FCPX trial yet (because I haven't shot my first video yet and I'm trying to be disciplined), but I learned enough from this video to at least get started on the right foot in terms of where to do my edits from and where to keep other types of storage. Your tone in the video had a kind of "that's why you always leave a note" quality that my mom would use, but I think that made it stick better. Magnetic timeline video is next!
Hahahaha “that’s why you always leave a note” Love it. Sometimes I’m a tough teacher dealing with unruly students who want to do things a little too differently. Gotta reign ‘em in! 🤣🎓 Thanks for watching and I’m excited for you to start your FCP journey!
Explicit Explanation! That was just what I needed! Thanks!! 21:16 | 9. Custom Workspaces, first thing on my schedule! ps. I was wondering why you are so soft/not sharp. My eyes are trying to focus for 32 minutes as your face is not sharp (for me, on a 4k monitor on 4k)
Yeah, so about the softness. A couple of things: 1. Shooting in 1080p on my Canon EOS R and then editing in a 4K timeline and exporting to 4K. Gonna lose some sharpness there. 2. Canon tends to need a bit of sharpening added in post, I'm finding. Of course when I made this video, I didn't really realize that. 3. Relying on auto-focus with eye-detection on the EOS R. Which has worked really well, I think. And I shot this with an f/4 lens so not sure if auto-focus sometimes wandered from my eye a bit at times. Definitely something I've heard from multiple viewers so a bit frustrating on my end...
Wow! I have to admit, will have to watch this vid over and over to even try and absorb the content, enormous effort on your part, thank you ............Gary ...................AU
HI Matthew, I discovered your channel with this video. Just moved FCPX from imovie and storage is my big problem with it. Thanks to you I will able to move forward. So much to learn from your channel. All the best!
Thanks so much. I dissected the keyboard commands in FCP X and built my own setup but this didn't teach me anything about mouse commands (some of which are not represented as key commands). You helped me immensely with the command-option click to change clip connections. I'm curious about the replace function - only three options are available with keys - you can only retime to fit with the mouse, something I hope they'll fix in the future ...
@@matthewTobrien Their aint nothing rediculous about Mr. Rodgers lol Ur vid played after another I was watching, and I had already clicked back n bailed out hearing just a snippit. I was like, oh no he didn't clicking back just to see it again and hit like. I've done that intro many times for streams n u got WAY more viewers than I'll ever have lol ....I'm just a cat who keeps getting confused accidentally eating my mouse.
Guilty. Guilty. And guilty. I didn’t even know how much I was doing wrong. Thank you and obviously I’m obviously subscribing because whatever you’re saying, I need to know.
Appreciate the sub! And it’s all constant learning. I am STILL learning new things all the time in FCPX and post-production. Always great to have RU-vid to turn to for help!
Great video Matthew just found you for the first time and like you delivery on how you explain it, I am a video creator on RU-vid and have been using Final Cut Pro 10 meany years. The only thing I know for sure is I will not know it all ever lol Subscribed Thank you
Well, that's what RU-vid is for! To help hold the knowledge for you. You can always come back to the channel to get what you need. Thanks for watching!
Great content on this video! I wish it was here a couple years ago when I started using FCPX because man I had a lot to learn right out of the gate!! I saved this one for a reminder when I run into these issues from time to time!! Great job brother!
Thanks a lot: since last night I know about the Cache Files . Being influenced by Larry Jordan I then was left with but one question: how fast should this external hard disk be? You answered this question for me: NOT fast. Thanks again Matthew.
And hard drive speed always depends on what footage you're working with. If you're in a 1080 workflow, it's not always necessary to have 1500 MB/s hard drives - sometimes you can get by with something slower that's not quite as expensive. But again, it never hurts to "future proof" your workflow in case you make the jump to 4K.
Outstanding video! On the final issue I originally tried to keep media in place but I’d run into problems with FCP losing the links and screwing up my edits. So I just went back to copying it into the library. I’ll have to look for your links on how to better use the external locals and look at that again.
Copying into the library is a great option...IF you understand what it's doing. If you do, it can work great. My good buddy who edits high level stuff for live touring keeps all the media inside the library so he doesn't ever have to deal with re-linking.
@@matthewTobrien HI, do you mean you have all your media on your internal drive? i thought the best way to keep all your media together is to keep all your media in the library. where are you putting your media? this is a huge thing for me. how do I find where I put my media?
actually, you say, "i want to keep my files in finder" which I'm guessing you mean on your internal mac hard drive? and you'd rather reference that than put it on your external
Keeping your files in Finder can mean on your internal drive OR external drive. The basic point is that I prefer to store my media OUTSIDE of my Final Cut Pro Library. Sometimes that’s on an external drive, sometimes internal. I just did a livestream today about my workflow for capturing footage to my drive and importing it into Final Cut Pro. ru-vid.comX4qkhxvNu-Q?feature=share
@@matthewTobrien ok, i just looked that up. i ended up saving all my media (~896gb), would you recommend I move it outside of the library at this point?
Excellent! Saving space and understanding how to control the size of your FCP libraries is critical to an efficient workflow. Congrats on the new M1 MacBook!
