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792Final Cut Pro User Guide
Create a new library in Final Cut Pro
You can create new, empty libraries, or you can create libraries from existing events.
1. If the Final Cut Pro Libraries sidebar isn’t already shown, do one of the following:
• Click the Libraries button in the top-left corner of the Final Cut Pro window.
• Choose Window > Go To > Libraries (or press Command-1).
2. Do one of the following:
• Create an empty library: Choose File > New > Library, navigate to a location on your
Mac or storage device where you want to save the library, enter a name, and click
Save.
Note:
You can’t store your Final Cut Pro library on a storage device that’s used for
Time Machine backups.
• Create a library from existing events: Select one or more events in an existing library,
then choose File > Copy Events to Library > New Library, navigate to a location on
your Mac or storage device where you want to save the library, enter a name, and
click Save.
The new library appears in the Libraries sidebar.
Note:
With Final Cut Pro 10.4, you can save a library to a SAN (such as an Xsan storage
volume) or an NFS or SMB file system volume and use it as if it were on a local storage
device. A network SMB volume must originate from either a macOS server or a Linux server
that has Samba 4.3.4 or later and is configured with modules for Apple compatibility.
See the Apple Support article Use shared storage with Final Cut Pro.
Open and close libraries in Final Cut Pro
You can open and close libraries in the Libraries sidebar as needed, so that you never have
too many libraries open at once.
Make sure to close a library before disconnecting an external storage device the library is
stored on.
1. If the Final Cut Pro Libraries sidebar isn’t already shown, do one of the following:
• Click the Libraries button in the top-left corner of the Final Cut Pro window.
• Choose Window > Go To > Libraries (or press Command-1).