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782Final Cut Pro User Guide
Note: If you have created or customized any Final Cut Pro effects, transitions, titles, or
generators in Motion, set the storage location for your Motion content to In Library before
starting any copy or move operations between libraries or storage devices. Otherwise,
the Motion content is not included in those operations. See Manage Motion content in
Final Cut Pro. Regardless, you must manually track and move any third-party (FxPlug)
content, because it is not managed within the Final Cut Pro library.
Back up projects and libraries in Final Cut Pro
Backing up your work and your media consistently is an essential part of your workflow.
Some people back up daily or weekly; others back up when a project is complete. To
protect your media, it’s recommended that you back up to a storage device or partition
different from the one where you store the media files used with Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro provides both automatic and manual tools that let you:
• Back up projects, events, and libraries manually. See Transfer a Final Cut Pro library to
another Mac and Copy or move items between libraries in Final Cut Pro.
• Enable automatic backups of the database portion of Final Cut Pro libraries. See
Restore a Final Cut Pro library and Set storage locations in Final Cut Pro.
• Back up projects by duplicating them as snapshots. See Duplicate projects and clips in
Final Cut Pro.
• Collect the source media files for a library, an event, or a project in one location. You
can also collect Motion content for a library in the library file or the Motion Templates
folder. See
Consolidate projects and libraries in Final Cut Pro.
Note: If you have created or customized any Final Cut Pro effects, transitions, titles, or
generators in Motion, set the storage location for your Motion content to In Library before
starting any copy or move operations between libraries or storage devices. Otherwise,
the Motion content is not included in those operations. See Manage Motion content in
Final Cut Pro. Regardless, you must manually track and move any third-party (FxPlug)
content, because it is not managed within the Final Cut Pro library.
Create optimized and proxy files in Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro can play back many media formats. For a complete list, see Media formats
supported in Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro also provides options for transcoding your media
(converting it to a different format or changing its settings) to make it suitable for editing.
• Create optimized media: This option transcodes video to the Apple ProRes 422 format,
which provides better performance during editing, faster render times, and better
color quality for compositing. If the original camera format can be edited with good
performance, this option is dimmed.
• Create proxy media: This option creates video proxy files. Video is transcoded to either
the Apple ProRes 422 Proxy or H.264 format. You can create proxy media in a variety of
frame sizes from 12.5 percent to 100 percent of the original. Proxy files increase editing
performance and take up considerably less storage space than optimized files.
Note:
For better import and playback performance, Final Cut Pro automatically
transcodes all MP3 audio files to MOV audio files. When transcoding files, Final Cut Pro
always retains the original media for future use.