Edit on an External Hard Drive and Save Money

I'd really love to save you a little bit of time a little bit of money and talk to you about my workflow and maybe even your new workflow when it comes to editing on external drives and even a mistake that I have made in my post-production efforts that I don't want you to make so let's get into it [Music] there you are you're beautiful humans welcome back to this channel I am so excited to be here with you you cannot I mean sir you do not know how excited I am to be here with you now today what I want to do is share a quick tip when it comes to your external hard drives and your post-production whether you are into music audio you are into photos or whether you're into filming and very large files especially for myself where I am filming in 4k and I film a lot I mean a ton I like to get to a role I get the b-roll I get any role that I can as long as it is gluten-free but I got to get it on here now as creatives we know that harddrive space is at a premium and we also know that editing or having any information on a spinning hard drive is just a non-starter it's it's it's a non-starter if you have a spinning hard drive you don't have an SSD whether internal or external I'm sorry now what I have here are two hard drives the SanDisk Extreme SSD and this is one terabyte and another one that I have is the Samsung t5 and I'll talk about mounting this but it is mounted on my computer still plugged in it's an external drive and the thing is folks I know that some of you are like I like all my stuff internal I don't want to have dongles and things hanging off my computer and velcro to my computer hey listen I'm not worried about being pretty I'm just worried about getting the work done trying to keep as much off of your computer when it comes to all of your creative stuff is going to help keep that machine running because the more that you fill up that hard drive space the harder it is to do those memory swaps that happen when it comes with the RAM and then it swaps and then it uses some of your hard drive space and if you don't have really like a lot of hard drive space available it starts to slow the computer down so having an external drive like this keeping it separate from the computer it keeps all of that stuff freed up so that you can keep that computer is going as fast as possible while keeping all of your information on the external SSD now both the sandesh extreme and of the Samsung t5 do come with USB type-c cables but the SanDisk also comes with AC to type a and the Samsung t5 also comes with a type a USB type a cable as well and when we talk about the speed of our editing we've want things to be as fast as possible and again using this macbook knowing that I'm using Thunderbolt and so the transfer speeds are going to be pretty fast now these are not going to be as fast as your internal drives that's not gonna happen however I think they are making some external drives that are about just as fast but really the bottleneck comes into the transfer through these cables but what I want to tell you is that keeping everything separate and keeping the hard drives fresh and clean of all of the clutter and all of the the media and the data is going to be helpful so it still keeps my machine running fast so I will actually sacrifice through that bottleneck and what these are rated at is between like five 45 50 read and write speeds I mean real world here I mean you know here's the thing like you can do those speed tests and I've done them I'm not really getting exactly what the manufacturer is saying that I'm supposed to get however I'm getting fairly close to it and honestly when it comes to comparing that to a spinning Drive and like keeping things clean off of my computer I will take that in a heartbeat because it's still fast enough when we talk about real world like I said you can do speed tests all you want but it's about the real world use now when you're working with teams this is a huge benefit because if you have multiple SD cards like myself and you're shooting for a day couple of days maybe even a week at a time and you need to offload data from these cards to this and then eventually giving your information to an editor or someone else on your team I would rather hand them something like this than giving them my SD cards which I definitely need because sometimes there's still space on there that you can still film on or get some more information with but I'd rather give somebody an external drive with all of the information on it so that they can start getting into their post-production and there were floo and organizing and even starting to work on these now of course as I showed you earlier I do kind of just put these on my computer it's not about looking pretty it's just about the function of it and I recommend personally I know people use velcro strips to put on their laptops I use the command strips and the medium strips and what I really like about those is that you know how velcro like when you keep like using it over and over again and eventually like it just gets like really fuzzy and dingy and it and it doesn't hold what it's supposed to hold I mean that takes a lot of like off and on and and certainly yeah it's kind of the same concept here but what I really do like about these is that there's also they're they're easy to just pull off and you know if you just want to pull it off the drive you're not gonna leave any residue oftentimes like those velcro strips now let me bring you into my workflow and then also talk to you about a mistake that I've been making for a while that I don't want you to make so let's talk about the workflow and then I'll talk about the mistake that's also going to help you save a ton of space now we've got Final Cut open here we're gonna create a new library and we're gonna make sure that we're creating that library in the external drive so going down to the Samsung t5 and then what we're then going to do is you see we have all of that information all that media will create a name or the the library and what where that library is going to exist is on this drive because this is what we're working on this is where we want everything to be so as you'll see we've got the t5 as where we're editing and that's our storage location everything the media is in the library the motion content is in motion templates and that is in the drive of the computer and the backups are actually in the computer as well so we've got to backup on the hard drive of the computer and then what we're going to do is we're going to import this media so you see we have all of this that we're going to be importing and you'll also see that we want to leave the files in place so we want to leave all of that in place on that hard drive we don't want to put it on the internal of the computer and then we're going to bring that all in so everything is going to exist on this external drive you've got your library the original mean and then you still have a backup on your internal hard drive of your computer but it's not the original media all of that is it exists here but it's just the workflow the backup workflow if you need for some reason something crashes and you need to go to the backup that'll happen on the internal hard drive of the computer so if you need to go back to that but it'll still try to pull the information from this external drive now the biggest thing the desert here the finale when it comes to a mistake that I've been making I pride myself on labeling all of my files and I also try to save space on things that I'm not using or don't think I'll ever use but the bundle so in Final Cut Pro or any editing software the bundle in Final Cut Pro that is the largest file so it exceeds even the original media when it comes to all of the stuff that I've put on this hard drive and what happens is that bundle has all of the color correction the Luntz the music all of that rendering that's happening when you're working with it now with client files I end up keeping everything I make sure to not delete anything because if I need to go back to that like if the client reaches back out for some reason they want to pay us for some more work or to do something different or whatever at least we have everything there I just don't want to take the chance of deleting anything with the bundle however what you can do and what I used to do is just I would render everything into like a dot MOV or an mp4 depending on the platform that I'm going with and what was happening was is that I would delete the bundle afterward and then I would lose my workflow so what I want to tell you to do is in Final Cut Pro just in my own workflow what you can do is you can actually go to the bundle you can then show the package contents on that and then when you go to the package contents and for my setup it's just like the date of the media files go into that and then you find the render folder the render files folder so that's all of the LUT color correction everything that's been happening there and you can see that that folder has a lot of data like it's taking up a lot of space now what you can do is go in and right-click that put that in the trash you can delete that and then you can go back and see that you still have that bundle you still have that Final Cut Pro bundle so even if you open that up you'll see that your workflow is still there the original media is still there what's missing is the fact that it hasn't rendered and you'll see like those dots across Final Cut Pro to show you that okay I've got to render all of this stuff all over again what questions can I help you with in making a buying decision talking about your workflow how can I help you so that you can elevate and scale your creative endeavor go out there do those things that matter you keep rocking the phases I'm gonna keep creating here and out there and bringing it back to this channel and until next time I hope that you're going out there and crushing it and doing great things and I can't wait to see you right back here on the next one

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Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 26 2020