Opening and closing FCPX Libraries for performance?

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Opening and closing FCPX Libraries for performance?

I remember when I first tried FCP many years ago, and it was fast until I'd created several projects. After a while FCP was near impossible to open because it would load EVERYthing before I could start working on any one project. It was one of the reasons I abandoned it. Now, on the M1 and watching Adobe literally smoke and burn, I'm back to trying FCPX. So far, not-ALL-good, but getting better.

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In the current FCPX eco-system, does it matter to performance if all the Libraries and projects are hanging inside FCPX? For instance, lets say I have Library1, Library2, ...etc etc etc... Library43... so on, and I'm only working on a project inside Library26 - is FCPX using resources to "manage" those other Libraries being open? Does it cause issues to open and close Libraries, or can they be thought of like a Premiere project - just open what you need?

Posted on May 29, 2022 5:46 PM

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Luis Sequeira1

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May 30, 2022 12:50 AM in response to creativeguytoronto

Libraries are separate “documents”.

If you open library 26 you may have a thousand more but if they are not open FCP is not doing anything with them, and they are not using memory or anything (other than space on disk).

I think that the problem you remember was probably due to having multiple libraries open or, perhaps, by putting a lot of things into a single humongous library.

I have hundreds of libraries, usually pretty small. Old stuff need not even be online, it can be saved to slower hard drives for archiving. My editing drive is a 1TB external SSD, and when I am done I copy stuff away and make space for the next one. Extremely smooth and fast.

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May 30, 2022 6:17 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks Luis. I figured but wanted to confirm.

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