Hello,
in order to explain the situation is good to explain my workflow.
I usually share my clips(events) with my partner or simply use them on different workstations (like Imac, Mbpro).
The footage is not stored always on the same physical drive. All of us are in different places so we use to copy the events on external disks, mount them on different workstations, etc.
The best solution was disk images where events were stored. They are very easy to handle and very flexible: no matter where they are phisically located, if you open that sparseimage, you have that drive mounted with all the required events and clip available.
Projects could include clips from different events on different disk images, all was pretty simple.
I know that this approach is a common one: many many editors/videographer do the same.
Now we have libraries... it seems quite similar on the sheet, except for projects. This is where all the portability seems to fail for me. Because projects library needs to have all the clips "inside" that library!!!
Yes, probably the disk space is not wasted... but I wonder what happens if I have to move that library on different drives...
In a number of blogs is clearly stated that "it's fundamental to keep media away from libaries"... that's a complication for my workflow. I need to
1 create sparseimage to store files media
2 create libraries to import media (leaving the source in the created sparseimage)
3 create projects on libraries (in this way the project will include only links and not the clips)
I think this has generated more steps than before.
I don't understand why Final cut does not let the user decide to include links or not in the projects.