Understanding libraries and events
Organization is the key to exceptional video post-production, and Final Cut Pro contains a unique set of tools to ensure that media remains well organized. Traditionally, this organization is known as logging. As you saw in Chapter 1, all media is stored within a Final Cut Pro library. A town’s public library contains many books, magazines, DVDs, and other items. The town library categorizes everything into different sections inside the building – for instance, fiction, non-fiction, sports, and so on. Final Cut Pro uses a similar method of categorization to store all of its contents. It uses events, Favorites, Keyword Collections, and Smart Collections, to which you give appropriate names to gain quick access to the contents when you are editing. The Final Cut Pro library also contains thumbnails representing Final Cut Pro’s projects.
As you saw in Chapter 1, you have the choice of where you create a library. The industry standard...
