Importing files. So we're going to continue a little bit with where we were heading before in the previous tutorial, and then we're going to talk about the actual files, off a hard drive for instance. So first of all, one of the things you'll be dealing with, with some file based cameras with hard drives or flash media, is that you'll be sometimes having spanned clips, meaning a movie or a video file, actually is on multiple different drives or internal storage. So you may have it just going over several different pieces of memory. What that really means is that instead of copying those files off separately onto your hard drive, and then importing them, it really makes the most sense to hook up that camera to Final Cut Pro, import it as a movie file, which then gets stored as an entire clip. So the camera that I've got hooked up right now, actually does that, I can have two memory sticks in at the same time, and so a movie can technically go and span each of those at the same time, if it's long enough. So I need to really hook that up, you can also, if you want, create an archive of that straight off the bat. So an archive is pretty cool, what this allows us to do, is several things. First of all, if you're in a situation where you need to capture a lot of stuff off your media, and you don't want to take the time to really do all other ingestion process, meaning, you don't want to convert it, transcode it, do all this stuff, create proxy files, then you may consider just creating archive of it, which then pulls it on to the drive, without doing any of that stuff. It's really the quickest way, then you can open up that archive, and do all those things later, as if you had the camera attached. So for instance let's make a selection of some of these files here. We can then say Create an Archive, it will ask us where we want to store it, any one of our hard drives here, and we give it a name, say OK. Then it will do it's thing, you can actually, at this point, close it, but it will now show up here, under the Camera Archives, you can see our three primary drives here, and so it's slowly doing that, we can actually close this at this point, and it'll do it in the background as well, which is kind of nice. So it'll take those as fast as the camera can push them off, and Final Cut can create archives of them, without necessarily having to do everything else. Now that's a very useful tool, once you're done, you could open that archive, and it'll be as if you hooked up the camera. Let's actually close this for the moment, you'll see nothing shows up, and in fact, nothing should at this point. We can also now come in and create with more files off, off our hard drive. So a couple of things, when we're doing this, we need to choose which Event it goes into, or Create a New Event. So Event, that's really just a database of all of our different media, so our media all lives now in these Events. You can have a lot of media in each Event, you can have a single piece of media in each Event, just depends on your organizational needs. So we can create a new one, it'll allow us to put it in any one of our drives that is accepted by Final Cut Pro, and it'll go all into the same place which is fine in most cases. Now if you want to organize this differently, we can actually say, don't copy files to Final Cut Events Folder. Import Folders as Keyword Collections, well that's different, but we can turn this off, so it'll actually leave it in the original place. So we can say add to this, and it'll just go in there, in name only, and it'll stay where it was originally. We're going to talk about all these things when we get to the Preferences, but this allows us to make the Settings for what happens once it gets imported. So the transcoding, the Video Settings, the Audio Settings, these are all the Analysis Tools and basically the Keywording type things. So we'll talk about a lot of this stuff coming up. So we can choose any of these files, let's choose a file here, we can see a preview just in the Finder, which is kind of nice. We can actually push Spacebar if you actually want to see that play, and that allows us to play it in the Finder. We can say, add to an existing Event, or let's create a new one, we actually could copy it, it's a pretty small file, and we'll call this, whatever media, whatever project we want to. Jumping, because that's what they're doing. Okay, so any of these files and then right now we're just going to do the top two and nothing else. Okay, so that's as easy as it is. Now keep in mind with this, that with all of these different files we're bringing in, they go into these Events, and the Events, are a lot of times project based, and so we're going to really be exploring over the course over this whole title, all of these different elements, and how they play with everything else. So for instance, we come in here, and we can now see our Project Libraries, these are all the projects we're working on. We can also see our Event Library, and this is organized by hard drive. So server, the HT2, the iPad 2, just whatever I've got it called here, and then each of these come into different events. The Events are the ones with the stars on them, and we'll be talking more about these as we go throughout this course as well, because this is a really critical part to understanding how to use Final Cut Pro X, and it just becomes a really critical element. So right now, as we import things in, start to look around, see where things are organized. In some ways, we have so much less control than in previous versions of Final Cut, but the simplicity, I think is a real strength to this, because not only can we put media where we want to, and import without copying it, but we know exactly where all the media is, and it allows us to put it on other drives, and it makes it really simple to know where everything is. So in some ways a really strong system, in some ways, a very limiting system. Both things happening at the same time. Okay that's it for this, let's move on now.
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