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Published inMar 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804614921
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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Where Final Cut Pro libraries are stored

The storage structure that Final Cut Pro uses revolves around a library. To use an analogy, a town’s public library contains many books and magazines, DVDs, and other things. The town’s library categorizes everything into different sections – for instance, fiction, non-fiction, and sports. Final Cut Pro uses a similar method of categorization to store all of its contents. It uses terms such as events, keywords, and smart folders, which you can give appropriate names so that you have quick access to the contents when you are editing.

A library is a database of all the information required for an edit. It is known as a bundle, which gives you a hint as to its purpose. Libraries contain the media or links to any media stored outside the library. They also store all the metadata and render files, including the projects themselves.

While you are editing, Final Cut Pro libraries keep track of the process of your editing...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

Author (1)

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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