Welcome to the second video in this final cut pro 10 master course. And here we will be covering creating libraries, events and projects as well as importing media, categorizing them by keywords and deleting library generated files. So let's get into it. Now that we are in Final Cut, first thing we need to do is create a library, you can do that by going to File New library. What a library does is keeps all of the files that you import as well as render cache and thumbnail previews and any optimized and proxy media keeps it all in that folder. So in this case, I will go ahead and go to a hard drive.

I will make a new folder and I will call this new project January 2 and I will create that folder and I will call this January 2 just for this tutorial. So I will hit save. So if you never Navigate to your finder and go to this folder, you will see that there's a new Final Cut library named January 2. And if you right click and show package options, it will have every thing that is related to Final Cut. And once you start dropping in files, and all that sorts of stuff, everything will be stored inside of this. So that's basically what the library does.

Also, by default, it creates a new event for you. With today's date, I usually like creating my own events with title. So for this, I'm going to call it in Word media tutorial. Because we will be importing some media and I will uncheck create new project because we will do that by hand. So let's hit OK. So now you can see we have another event in here and what that does is each event has its own media and projects.

So if you're doing a film, you could separate each event into scenes, you're not mixing around all of the footage all in one place, which could be really distracting. And you'll just be wasting your time looking at the files that you don't necessarily need at that time. Let's go back to importing tutorial and I will make a new project. And I will call this new media. And you can see that if you go to custom settings, you can really choose all of the different things, but I usually use automatic settings and I drag in the clip that I will import into the project and that will choose the settings that the clip is shot in. So I will just hit OK. And now you can see that we have a new project in the event.

If it looks different for you, you might be looking at it differently. I covered this in the tutorial just before that This video. So if you just get right to it, maybe you should go back because getting used to the user interface a Final Cut could take some time if you're coming from software like Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, or anything like that. So I like working in this ListView because they get to see all this information. So now that we have a project, and we created the library where all the files are going to be stored, and we made the event, now it's time to import footage. You can do that by going to File Import Media, where you can do with this little download button here, which basically import to put it so if you click on that it will open up this media import window and you can choose a location from where to import your file.

I will be importing some files from a hard drive from a music video that I shot right here on as a corn and I'm just going to go to calling me which name of the song. And there's a bunch of different things here. And I will just choose three clips. For the sake of this tutorial, I'll just put forth and you can see you can leave files in place. So if you're working off of the same hard drive where your event is, I would suggest leaving the files in place. That way, you're not duplicating files all the time.

And in this case, you know, I would use an extra 12 gigabytes for no reason just because it would duplicate the files if I copied them to the library. So I didn't need that. If you add any tags in Finder to the files themselves, you can import keywords. I usually never do it in Finder, I do it in Final Cut itself, so I will keep those unchecked. What's really great about Final Cut is you can analyze and fix and transcode files all before importing. So you can see here, you can create optimized media as well as creating proxy media, which is smaller size files that are easier to work with if your computer isn't extremely fast.

We can't, let's say work with raw 4k files on your computer. If you're just editing off a MacBook or something, you can just hit Create proxy media and it will create smaller files that you'll be able to play back a lot faster in the Edit. And then when you're exporting, it will use the actual original media when it's exporting so that you have a high quality project. One of the great things is find people. So let's say you're shooting an interview, and there's tons of different views and things like that. You can choose find people, and it will create a smart collection after analyzing your file.

It takes some time, but it's a it's a great time saver. If you're an editor, and you're just getting footage and you weren't on set, so you don't really know which files or interviews or people talking or people in the shot. So this kind of helps organize your footage automatically. You don't really have to do anything for which is great, analyze and fix audio problems. You can do that during import as well as well. As all of these, but I usually like doing them by hand because you know, if you hit balanced color, and then turns out you don't really like the way it auto balanced it for you, you would have to go back and change it.

So usually I do it by hand to the clips themselves. And I will show you how to do that after. So I will uncheck find people because all of these shots have the guy in it. And so these are the settings I typically use when I'm importing files. And I usually check the close window starting import because I typically done importing my files after I select them by hand from here. So I'm just going to hit import selected and it will start importing the files in Okay, so all of my files are imported.

And you can see that there's no tasks left because there's a little checkmark over here. And if you click on it, it will give you all the background tasks that are being worked on for the project. So let's take one of the clips here. I will choose this one I will select a range for for the file to import it. So I kind of like this shot here with the really blurry light. So I will hit I on the keyboard to set a pin point.

And I would just play it through. Let's say this is good. And I will choose oh four out. And I can just take this clip and drag it into the project. And it already makes it with the automatic settings for the same properties that this file was shot. So you can zoom in, in the timeline by hitting command plus and zoom in by hitting command minus.

You can also use the trackpad or the mouse to zoom in. If you forgot to import a file, you can also import by dragging and dropping a clip in. So I will show you how to do that right now. So let's say you don't have clip 31 which I would want to throw in here and draw Get in here, and it will just throw the clip in here. So this is just a mural footage of a taxi going by. Before I get heavily into my edit, I usually organize things by keywords.

So you can do that by hitting the key button. And you can start putting in keywords where the clip that you selected. So for here I can put in taxi because I would use that a lot. And as you can see, as soon as you assign a keyword, there's a blue line that comes up on top of the clip which shows that you have keywords applied to this clip so I can put taxi maybe people and night these seems like pretty good keywords for this clip. And for over here I can put into keywords like that's the name I can put an interior that's basically all I need for this for this shot of him trying to climb For a music video shot, maybe I'll put the keywords x terior and night. Now you can see if you go to your event, you can see all of the keywords that were applied.

So when you click on them, it will show you the clips that were assigned so you can see the assigned to clips. So you get to find them right here. Another great thing about keywords is you can apply them to certain parts. So let's go and find a part where you have a taxi drive by so there's a shot where a taxi goes by him. So I will put in and out again with I and o on the keyboard and I can put in keywords and type in taxi And you can see for taxi, just that selection shows up. So if you have really long clips, like especially for music videos, where you shoot long takes to sync the audio, it's really helpful to be organizing things for keywords.

Now, if you decide to play this file, and it ends up being too big or too large, you can work with proxies, even after importing our footage. And you can do that by right clicking, going to transcode media and there's a button to create proxy. So let's hit OK. Go into the background tasks. Open this little window so that you can see the progress. So now that 20 years went by, and you're almost dying of old age after all of your piles have been proxied. Let's take a look and see how big the files are now.

So the original file that you were tossing was number 16. And it was 4.44 gigabytes. And let's go and take a look at the new proxy. The new file is only 1.29, so about a third of the size. So because this file is a lot lighter, and it's made with a compression that's really easy for Final Cut to handle, you can easily work with this file, and it's going to be super easy. You don't even need to re import it or do anything again, all you need to do is go to View and the type of media that you're working with, you're gonna choose proxy.

So because this file file 15 was not proxied it shows up as red with mixed missing proxy, but now in 16 I'm gonna take this in Take this out, throw this file in. And you can see it's super easy to handle, you can really work smoothly with this file without any problems. If you need to be searching for any files you imported, because you have a ton of clips, you can just hit the little search button here. And you can search for files that contain any specific letters or numbers in its entire name. So after working with all this footage, and exporting your project and finishing with it, proxies, optimized media and other generated files can take up a lot of space on the computer. So what you can do is click on the library here, go to that.

Go to File, delete generated library files. And you can check delete, render files all delete optimized media and delete proxy media. And then hit OK. And now we'll empty out a lot of your data. So you can see right now we only have 1.3 gigabytes, which is that one proxy video that we have. So if you hit OK, we'll take a little bit. And once you go back and take a look at the properties, now it's only 4.6 megabytes.

So when you're working with really, really big files, you can take up 200 502 terabytes. And it's all like proxy footage, proxy files, optimized videos. So once you're done with it, you can just delete all the generated files. And if you're ever going back to the project, all you would have to do is just optimize everything. Again, if you're ever going back to it, make any changes, which could take up some time, but it's worth saving all of the space on your computer. So now you have everything ready.

So let's go and just look at the original media because we deleted all of the generated files and you're To go. If anything ever goes wrong in your project, the final cut closes, your computer shuts down and you can't open your project or library, you can always open it up from a backup, you can do that by going to File, Open Library from backup. And you can choose the date from when to restore it because we just started this project today. You can see that this is the only option that we have. But if you're working multiple days, multiple weeks or months on projects, you'll be able to restore from a lot of different points throughout the progress of your video. So that is all for setting up a project and importing media.

So now that you learn how to set up your project and import media, the next video down below is going to cover how to do some basic editing things like titles and lower thirds. Navigating the timeline, skimming versus the playhead safe zones, attend basic volume controls. So I'll see you In the next one