FCPX 10 Organization Translator

Every library has to have at least one event. In this case it sounds as if you need one library and it's one event. Your video gets imported into the event. You can leave it in place when you import if you wish. The project is where you edit you material; it's the edited sequence that you're creating.

What version are you using? Your OS shows Mountain Lion.

Yes, the nomenclature is different and requires some getting used to.

The biggest difference between FCP X and most other editing applications is that FCP X is a clip besed editor – not track-based.

Sequences are assembled from clips on the primary storyline in a project. Rather than organizing material by different video and audio tracks, FCP X, uses connected clips. All clips connect to the primary storyline – regardless of the number of layers of clips.

I think of projects as sets of instructions. The project files are stored in event folders. Events also include media – either actual or linked to external files. Events are stored in Libraries.

Russ

Clips go on tracks, though technically there are no tracks in FCP.

An event is a folder inside a library.

A library is a bundle that contents all the information related to a production, all the events, and all projects, and all the metadata added to clips and other elements. The library may also contain the media used in the production, though it doesn't have it.

What do you mean by movie? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie. It was broken down into multiple libraries. The contents of the libraries eventually came together in a single library. A wedding production might deliver multiple movies, but it's usually in a single library.

Swallowing and accepting the Apple "Way Of Re-Imagining Video Editing" is not an easy leap. But you have no choice if you want to use FCPX. If you can find a copy, get Tom's old FCPX book. It's hopelessly out of date because Apple keeps updating FCPX but the fundamentals are all there and working through Tom's training course is valuable experience toward understanding the system. You can do it on your own, of course, and there are thousands of free youtube and vimeo FCPX resources. Tom's book you can take to the gym.

I believe it was unnecessary for Apple to reinvent the editing paradigm so completely but, now that I've been using FCPX for a few years, going back into a more conventional track-based editor like Premiere is difficult. So I do't do that.

TTwo directors, one editor, working while they shot, organized by assistants, it was more convenient to work on different sections in different libraries, also separate libraries with clips that had to go to VXF, as well as transfer libraries to move pieces around.

Weddings have multiple deliverables, the full ceremony, and separate videos for different aspects of the preparations, ceremony, and celebrations. The prices being paid for event videos these days you'd better be prepared to produce the Hollywood blockbuster with all effects and full grading together with different version cuts.

FCP help is available online and includes a glossary.