FCP X BTS workflow question about performance
Hello everyone,
Hope al is well and cannot thank the forum enough for past advice. I have been extremely happy about the 10.1 update but I haven't felt like the new "libraries" structure has been helpful for my specific needs or much more realistically, I haven't found a way to utilize properly and make it work for me. The idea that a specific library for related events and projects is fantastic but my curiousity involves how accumulated events and projects effect the peformance in FCP since I can't seem to just place the events in an "archive" folder which is what I was used to and recently have been creating a multitude of libraries, each for a specific project and am sure that is not what was intended to happen with the new structure.
A little background into my issue:
About 4-5 per week I compile very short BTS videos of different photoshoots that I have been doing while working in Miami, so at first I created one Library titled "BTS" and would make a different event for each day under this library. My main concern in doing this was mainly performance as I was always used to placing unused FCP Event and Projects in an "archive folder" to make sure that FCP wasn't referencing those Events and Projects when they didn't have to and I don't necessarily want to delete these events and their respective projects/duplicates in case I want to go back and reference them again.
My first question that's been bugging me is, does keeping all these events under the same library keep their appropriate files "active" or only when that event is selected. I do these videos 4-5 times a week almost YEAR ROUND so i'm not sure what would happen when 75 events appear under the same library in regards to performance.
Recently, I started creating a new library with a new event and new project for each BTS clip. It seems as a bit overkill to have to do this for every short I am doing. Any recommendations on how to better organize my files in regards to my specific workflow that will not affect performance of FCP (i've been assuming that the "buidup" of these events/projects under a library affects the speed and efficiency of FCP)...
Thanks again everyone, hope i'm not the only one curious about the change in FCP performance the new library structure brings in regards to performance/efficiency...
Anthony
Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Macbook Pro, 13" Mid 2012