Summary

This was a particularly technical chapter that you should remember to refer back to. You should by no means try to remember all these details, as an abundance of the information is background material or historical data. The information that is important to retain includes the Users folder, where Final Cut Pro locates its files. You should know how to access the Users folder for emergency recovery of media, as well as be able to install and view the plug-ins used by Final Cut Pro. Equally important are the locations that you can choose to store Final Cut Pro’s library and, most importantly, understanding the library concept as a whole.

You need to have a broad understanding of the different file formats and how they are either best suited as camera files, editing formats, or for export. The differences between the ways that files are compressed will give you an understanding of when to use those files, and when indeed you will need to convert them for best use within...