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Creating libraries and events - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Creating libraries and events

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- In the next few sections of this course, we're going to start by building a library and importing clips into an event from scratch, followed by different organization methods. So that we're all on the same page, If you were working in an earlier project, where we created a project and got to see a little bit of final cut, you're going to have a default library that you started with. And we just want to give that a close. So you can select that library by clicking on it. And then from the file menu, just give that a close by going to Close Library Trailer. We now have nothing inside a final cut with a clear option to open a library. But if we want to start with a new library, let's head to the file menu. So we can go to file, new, library. By default, it's going to store within our movies folder. That's where all libraries are created unless we change those locations. And this is the second library we're working with. I'm going to call this My Second Library. Why don't we choose save. We get a bunch of things by default. We've seen in an earlier movie that we have a smart collections folder which is going to auto place things that we bring inside based on what it is, like if it's video or audio. And then certain things that we do in final cut like create projects or mark things as favorites. It's going to place clips and projects in those locations. Now just underneath this Smart Collections folder is your final cut event. And events are where we bring clips and assets into final cut. In fact, when we start to import in a few movies this is where everything is going to go. Now you can have multiple events for a library as we've learned in an earlier movie. But for this lesson, we're just going to work within one event to bring in all of our assets. Okay, now that we've covered over the basics of how to create a library and that event from scratch, let's move to the next movie where we're going to look at how we can keep our files clean on our operating system.

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