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Importing and creating proxies for 360 clips

Importing and creating proxies for 360 clips

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Importing and creating proxies for 360 clips

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- Final Cut Pro X allows us to create proxy or approximation files, right on import. This can be extremely beneficial in a 360 work flow where we have massive files and lots of footage to edit. By taking advantage of Final Cut Pro X's proxy work flow we can connect to our proxies as we edit our footage down and then reconnect to our originals when the process is done. Let's see how this works. So I've launched Final Cut and I actually have no libraries opened right now. If there's and existing untitled library you can just right-click it and press 'close'. We're just going to create a library from scratch that can hold our 360 material in and then create some proxies of that. So I'm going to go to the 'file' menu choose 'new' and get a library up here. I'll call this, "360 In FCPX" and I'm going to save this to the desktop and to a new folder, that I will call "FCPX" and create that right there on the desktop. Great, so now that we have a library we get an 'events' and all of our…

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