ThinningPatience

Q: Housekeeping & Deleting Generated Files.

Hi,

 

Today marks a staggering ONE WEEK since I first started editing in FCP X. I’m very much enjoying my experience and have sound it vastly superior to Premiere Pro in every way.

 

However, I’m absolutely hammering my hard drive capacity and am having trouble understanding which generated files to delete, how frequently to delete and from where.

 

Here’s my set up:

 

I have background rendering on, but I’m not, to my knowledge, creating Proxy Media or transcoding the files (at least, they’re both de-selected upon import).

 

I am currently working in one library, in which I have, so far, 13 events (and rapidly counting), containing a project each. There’s nothing fancy going on cosmetically (i.e. no colour correction or animation). However, I am creating multicam clips in each project, since I filmed the footage using 2 cameras. Apart from that, all I really have is simple cuts and transitions, with no project exceeding 15 minutes in duration.

 

I noticed that I have been using nearly 200GB of my hard drive space per day, so I decided to do some housekeeping, deleting unused render files.

 

My questions are as follows:

 

  1. Each time I start housekeeping, will I have to delete unused render files from each Project, Event AND Library, including projects I haven’t opened for days, or is there a simple way bulk delete? I’m going to end up with around 250 projects, since they’re short music tuition videos.

 

 

  1. Although I have Proxy Media de-selected, is FCP still creating proxy media elsewhere, or is the 200GB a day entirely render-related?

 

  1. Finally, could all of this be solved by switching background rendering off?

 

Thanks in advance. I have found this forum extremely valuable.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on May 31, 2016 4:44 AM

Close

Q: Housekeeping & Deleting Generated Files.

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by ThinningPatience,

    ThinningPatience ThinningPatience May 31, 2016 4:47 AM in response to ThinningPatience
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Video
    May 31, 2016 4:47 AM in response to ThinningPatience

    I didn't mean for each question to be numbered as 1. It's a formatting error, since I pasted the question from my Notes app. Still, at least it makes them all appear of equal importance!

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H May 31, 2016 5:00 AM in response to ThinningPatience
    Level 7 (21,770 points)
    Quicktime
    May 31, 2016 5:00 AM in response to ThinningPatience

    You can delete all generated library files by selecting the library icon and them going to the File menu; it's a contextual command. You can also delete any Proxy or Optimized files at that time.

     

    You can check in the Inspector to see what media representations are available for any clip.

     

    Russ

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H May 31, 2016 5:05 AM in response to ThinningPatience
    Level 7 (21,770 points)
    Quicktime
    May 31, 2016 5:05 AM in response to ThinningPatience

    ThinningPatience wrote:

     

     

     

    I noticed that I have been using nearly 200GB of my hard drive space per day, so I decided to do some housekeeping, deleting unused render files.

     

    That does seem like a lot of render files to generate daily so I wonder…do your project settings match your clip properties?

     

    Russ