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00:00Hey guys, Dion from Dion Video Productions here, and today I'll be doing another Final Cut Pro X tutorial. Let's get started.
00:06Alright guys, in this video, I'm going to be showing you how to basically run Final Cut Pro X off of an external hard drive.
00:12Let's get right on into this. First of all, why would you want to do this?
00:15Well, as you can see, currently in frame, we have both of my laptops. We have the one on the right, which is a normal 13-inch MacBook Pro,
00:21and on the right, we have the Retina model. Now, the Retina model is obviously the better of the two,
00:25and it is the computer that I like to use for editing, of course, because we have the nicer display, the better graphics cards,
00:30the better processor, more RAM, blah, blah, blah. But the one drawback to these Retina models is storage, right?
00:37They run on SSDs, which is great, because you have very fast read and write speeds, including for editing.
00:42However, the problem is they are a little bit limited in space, especially when compared to conventional hard drives,
00:47like the normal 13-inch MacBook Pro would run on.
00:49So, the base Retina laptop MacBook Pro only comes with 128 gigabytes of solid-state storage.
00:55This here is the upgraded model, but even 256 gigabytes for me is not enough to have, you know, the files I want on there
01:01and still have enough room to comfortably edit with.
01:05So, I basically tried to look up on YouTube some ways to fix this, and if it was even possible to run Final Cut Pro X,
01:10or basically all your Final Cut Pro X files off an external hard drive, this is possible.
01:14However, all the videos I found on YouTube were for older versions of Final Cut Pro X,
01:18so this video really applies to the people who are on the latest version of Final Cut.
01:22So, before we get into how we actually do this, as you can see currently in the middle of my screen,
01:27I have the hard drive that I'll be using for this.
01:29Now, as you can see in the shot right here, I have purchased a lot of hard drives in my time,
01:33because I like to keep all my files, my video files, backups, blah, blah, blah.
01:38I just kind of want to have backups of everything.
01:40So, I bought this hard drive particularly for this function.
01:44Now, two main reasons. First of all is that it runs on USB 3.
01:48Now, if you have one of the newer Macs, so the newer Retina MacBook Pros or the newer iMacs,
01:52they will have USB 3 built-in.
01:54Basically, what that means is, compared to, say, USB 2, which is the normal standard,
01:58you have faster read and write speeds.
02:00And, of course, when you're moving big files like videos for editing, this is a nice feature to have, right?
02:05Because you are, of course, downgrading a little bit in read and write speeds when going from an SSD to an external hard drive.
02:10But that's a small price to pay, I think, for all the extended storage.
02:13Now, the second reason why I bought this hard drive is because of the physical build quality.
02:16Now, this is built from metal, and the chances are you're going to be having this with you all the time,
02:20because you'll be pretty reliant on it, right, if you have all your Final Cut Pro stuff on there.
02:24So, this is a nice metal design, which not only looks nice with the computer,
02:28but is also a little more durable over time as well.
02:30And this comes in multiple storage configurations.
02:32Right here, I have the 1TB model, which, for me personally, will be fine for quite a while
02:38before I would have to, say, start clearing out files.
02:40So, let's go ahead and get on into this.
02:42So, basically, what I've decided to do was to start the process from step A.
02:46So, we're going to just start all the way from the beginning and go to the end live here.
02:49So, let's go ahead and switch to the computer, and let's get started.
02:51All right, guys. So, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and plug the hard drive into the computer.
02:55And right after this, we're going to go ahead and restore it.
02:58Now, why do this? Well, I always recommend doing this when buying a new hard drive.
03:01But this particular hard drive actually came with some pre-installed software, which we do not need.
03:05That's only taking up useless space.
03:06So, we're going to go ahead and launch Disk Utility.
03:09This can be found under your Spotlight.
03:11This comes standard on all Macs, and this is basically what we'll be using to completely erase the drive here.
03:16So, we're going to go ahead and select the hard drive.
03:18We're going to go under Erase, and make sure Mac OS X Extended Journal is selected.
03:23Now, this is the first option, and therefore should be automatically selected.
03:26However, you do want to make sure this is selected, because this is what we're looking for for this.
03:29So, let's go ahead and name this something here, because this hard drive will be particular to my Final Cut Pro X library.
03:36We'll call it Retina Final Cut Pro Hard Drive.
03:40We'll just call it that.
03:41Something pretty obvious here.
03:42And we're going to go ahead and hit Erase.
03:44This should not take long.
03:45It should take a few seconds only.
03:47All right.
03:48So, as you can see, it is now finished, and it is already renamed under Retina Final Cut Pro X Hard Drive.
03:52So, this is, of course, a very obvious and good name to use.
03:54So, all right, guys.
03:55So, after we've completely erased the drive here, we're going to go ahead and launch Final Cut Pro X.
04:00So, as I said before, this will work with the latest version, 10.1.4, and, of course, a few older versions as well.
04:05But make sure you're in roughly that version for this to properly work.
04:08So, when we launch Final Cut Pro X, it will, of course, launch into the local library here.
04:14To double-check this, you can go under Finder, hit Movies, and make sure the library name matches the one that's shown under your libraries list.
04:20In this case, I've just named it Retina Solid State Drive, just to make it a little bit more obvious where this library is located.
04:26We're going to go ahead and, of course, change that.
04:28So, I've already emptied out my library.
04:29Of course, make sure you save everything you want before you do this.
04:32So, the next step, we're going to go under File, and we're going to hit Library Properties.
04:37Now, this will open up a little window here, which will allow us to modify the storage locations.
04:41Of course, we're going to change that to the external hard drive.
04:45So, we're going to go ahead and choose, and we're going to select the hard drive.
04:48Hit Choose, and we're going to do the exact same with Media, Cache, and, of course, Backups.
04:53Now, backups here, these are not necessary.
04:55However, I always recommend doing them because it's just good to have as well.
05:00So, I'm going to go ahead and hit Choose, and we're going to hit OK.
05:03As you can see, everything is now stored on the external drive.
05:07Now, what we're going to do is we're going to actually create the new library.
05:10So, what we're going to do, we're going to go back under Files, and we're going to hit Open Library, Others.
05:17As you can see, the only one that it knows, of course, is the local one.
05:20We're going to go ahead and hit New, and we're going to make a new library.
05:23So, let's call this, for example, External Final Cut Pro X.
05:29We'll just name it that, just to give it a little obvious name.
05:31So, we're going to go ahead and hit Save.
05:33As you can see, under Libraries, we now have two libraries.
05:35We have the Onboard Retina, basically your solid state library, and we have the External library.
05:41Now, you can, of course, delete your Onboard library.
05:43I will keep it, though, just because it is good to have.
05:46Say, I don't have my external drive with me.
05:48I could still be able to edit on my local drive.
05:50But this way, I can quickly switch between the two.
05:53So, let's go ahead and double check and make sure this works here.
05:55So, what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and import a file here.
05:58So, I have a simple video here laid out on my desktop, basically just my outro video.
06:04We're going to go ahead and import that.
06:06And we're going to make sure we create the event under the name External Final Cut Pro X.
06:11So, let's name this one for now and make sure your files are copied as well.
06:15And then, we're going to go ahead and import.
06:17And as you can see, under my external hard drive, we now have this clip.
06:20This basically means that we're completely editing and working off of the external drive.
06:24So, if we go back into Finder here and double check that everything's worked,
06:27if we click on our Final Cut Pro X drive, as you can see, we should have folders similar to this.
06:31So, we have your media folder, or sorry, your library folder right here.
06:34And we have your original media, which you can actually check here, which will have the outro.
06:38This is what we just imported.
06:40And as you can see, everything is saved and done right on the external hard drive.
06:44So, this basically is how you set up an external hard drive for Final Cut Pro X.
06:47So, from now on, every file that you import or every edit that you make will be saved on the external hard drive.
06:54Alright guys, thank you very much for watching this video.
06:56I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope this helped you out.
06:58If you have any more further questions, be sure to let me know in the comments
07:00and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
07:02At the end of this video, I have a few more tutorials that you may find interesting.
07:05And without further ado, thank you very much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video.
07:08Bye bye.