So as the title states, what do you do with footage that's already been posted? Do you keep old footage on a hard drive or just what ever you posted?
I use Final Cut Pro X on my iMac. I've been editing them, posting it and just leaving it be. I got a notification that the storage on my TB hard drive is almost full . I never realized how much space all the videos actually take so I've not begun exporting all my videos as master files and uploading to YouTube instead of doing it directly from FCP. (Exporting direct from FCP is convenient but the file size is huge!)
Now that I have the master file I can store it on my external hard drive and remove the project from my library freeing up space. If I ever need to pull clips I can simply import the master file and edit out what I need. Does this sound like a good way to do things?
What do you all do? Thanks for the advice and sharing your editing/exporting experiences!
I use Final Cut Pro X on my iMac. I've been editing them, posting it and just leaving it be. I got a notification that the storage on my TB hard drive is almost full . I never realized how much space all the videos actually take so I've not begun exporting all my videos as master files and uploading to YouTube instead of doing it directly from FCP. (Exporting direct from FCP is convenient but the file size is huge!)
Now that I have the master file I can store it on my external hard drive and remove the project from my library freeing up space. If I ever need to pull clips I can simply import the master file and edit out what I need. Does this sound like a good way to do things?
What do you all do? Thanks for the advice and sharing your editing/exporting experiences!