Free Space on Your Hard Drive [+Secret Tips to Delete Final Cut Pro X Render Files]

hey dose penthouses will hit I'm here in the tutorial we're having a look at how we clear space when you're working with Final Cut Pro 10 so basically Final Cut Pro 10 as you're working with it increasing multiple libraries and projects will eventually take up more and more space on your hard drive through the render files that it creates and also through some other media that you're capturing as you're working in Final Cut Pro 10 now whether you are brand new to Final Cut Pro 10 you've been using Final Cut Pro 10 for a while there'll be some nice tips and tricks in here for how you can manage that space on your hard drive so first of all we're going to be having a look at how we use the built-in tools in Final Cut Pro 10 to manage those libraries we're also going to have a look at how we go into the libraries and figure out I can see where Final Cut Pro is store anything so where those render files are going where the original media is going I think that's really important when you're thinking about how you're managing your drive space with Final Cut Pro 10 and kind of dealing with the large files that you get when you work with video and then in the second part this tutorial we're going to be having a look at arctic whiteness is Final Cut library manager which allows you to manage multiple libraries so managing the libraries in Final Cut Pro 10 is it good if you've got only a handful of projects but as you scale up and you're working on more and more projects then being able to view all those projects and get an overview of where the render files are where the analysis files are and how much space is being taken up might individual projects it can save you a lot of time if you can manage that from outside of Final Cut Pro 10 now if you've got to the point where Final Cut Pro where even open because your hard drive is so full then we're also going to have a look at how you clear library files without even opening up Final Cut Pro 10 or needing to use hunting whiteness is Final Cut library manager so without further ado let's dive in and have a look at how we clear space in Final Cut Pro 10 and free up all that hard drive space that you need so you can edit smoothly and get working on your projects so let's dive into Final Cut Pro and look at how we can manage our libraries in Final Cut Pro so we're gonna look at three things here one is how we can manage this manually within Final Cut Pro how we can kind of delete render files and stuff like that and that space taken up on our hard drive the second one is we're gonna actually have a look at how we could delete stuff from within the Final Cut Pro library itself so how we can go to the finder actually look at the file where our files and delete stuff manually there which is really useful if your hard drive is completely full up and you can't even open up any software or anything like that so that will be a useful tip for those that have really filled up their their hard drive and we're going to have a look at arctic whiteness is Final Cut Pro library manager which is really useful when you end up with a lot of library so you're working on a lot of different projects but first of all well dive into the first two completely free methods of doing this which are to do it firstly in Final Cut Pro and then to have a look at how you do it in the finder so first of all when we have Final Cut Pro open in our interface up at the top left will see our library so those are these four little squares with stars in them and these can contain any number of edits and four different pieces of work that we're creating so here I have an edit for a client I'm doing and a couple of video tutorials that I'm working on and basically in these libraries if we highlight them one at a time you can see across in the inspector and I can see how big they are so this is 3.6 gigabytes my exporting transparency is just under one gigabyte so 896 megabytes and my triple-a solid foundations video is eleven point three gigabytes so a bit bigger it's a bit of a longer edit it contains two or three different edits and so the render files and all that kind of stuff takes up a bit more space on the hard drive now one thing to do and when you're working in Final Cut Pro first of all is to keep libraries closed where you can so try and only have one or two or three libraries open at any one time and that will mean that when you open up Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro will open a bit quicker and also won't open any any projects up or any libraries up that you don't want it to open so we can right click on a library here and close it and we can always reopen it so basically if we go to file open library we can see that library that we just closed we can open it up so basically by default on your hard drive libraries that you create are stored in the movies folder so this is if you're working on a map where you don't have an external hard drive plugged in and you're storing stuff locally on your computer Final Cut Pro will kind of point you towards your movies folder when you correct those libraries and the first kind of default library that it creates will actually be called untitled and it will drop it into the the movies folder so you should see a link to that when you kind of navigate your your finder so you can see down the bottom here the daisy-chain shows me that it's in macintosh HD users and Housel and movies so we'll come back into Final Cut Pro and the step that we're going to have a look at here is how we delete render files from within Final Cut Pro so when we're finished with a project or maybe we're gonna come back and work on it in a couple of weeks but we need to clear up some space we can delete render files from within Final Cut Pro itself so I'm going to come to the file menu and I've got my library selected here and I'm gonna go to file and then this option + delete generated library files so this will allow us to click on it first of all and you can see here we have some options for deleting render file so we can delete our render files and we can delete either the unused render files so render files the Final Cut Pro is made but and no longer used in the edits or we can delete all render files now deleting all render files isn't going to cause any problems it's just gonna mean that sometimes you might need to re render stuff when you continue to work on it and the same for optimized media and proxy media we can always regenerate that content if we open up our edits again so any of these generated library files we can delete them it's not a problem so we can click OK and all we're losing there is time when we come to work on it so you can see the eleven point three gigabytes if I just click away from that once and then back to it is now 53 megabytes so I have all my media stored in external file so it's really only the render files that were taking up space within that library so we've cleared a lot of space there by doing that so I'm going to right click and close this library what I don't want to happen now is to jump back to the timeline for that project at that piece of work and then for things to start re-rent and that's going to start to take up more space so now with these two libraries we can see I've got 896 megabytes in this one and I've also got 8.6 megabytes here in this one so basically I can do the same for those go to file delete generated library files and then delete the render files and everything like that now one way of keeping your library size down is to tell an off background rendering so if we come to Final Cut Pro we can come to our preferences and those render files are created in the background so I was with editing in Final Cut Pro if we pause or move away from the timeline will get rendering that will happen as we kind of work and we can turn background rendering off it means that we only render when we want to so if we're experiencing slowness of playback or something like that and then we can render out our footage manually so otherwise Final Cut Pro will kind of render as soon as we pause or take a break from moving around a timeline it will do some background rendering so if we close that and we bring up a timeline here when it looks like this one is empty so we'll come back to this one I'm gonna scroll up so with this particular project you can see I've got some unrendered elements here and Final Cut Pro now is going to it's not going to render them for me so the auto rendering is turned off so if I go to modify and either render selection or render all then I can render what's on my timeline so what will happen here is I'll get a rendering now happening once I've decided to click render and you can see we've got a background render going on now but we had to turn that on for it to work so just for this demo we don't need to let it render all the way out and so we'll stop that for the moment it will keep the render files that we've already created and if we click away to smart collections here then back to our tutorial it will see that that size has gone up to 1.7 gigabytes so with that little bit of rendering because I've got some titles in here basically it's starting to render out a larger file size now we've seen how we can clean that up in Final Cut Pro but sometimes you'll want to do that in the library itself so this is the second method for clearing up your your library so if we right click on the library we can go to reveal in finder and this is really useful for finding out where your library is saved so you'll see whether it's saved in the movies folder or for me when I click here we'll see that this is actually saved if I right-click at the top here on Santa Catalina tutorials Final Cut Pro tutorials in my archive and then in this exporting transparency folder so basically you can see all the media I have is organized in there and really just a couple of screen recordings and then the exported file is included in there as well so if I right-click on this library I can go to show package contents so it looks like a file when we see the library here and if we double click on it it will open it up in Final Cut Pro but actually if we right click on it we'll see that it's this package and we can go in there and have a look so this is our event so you can see our event listed up here so 1209 2019 when I created the library and we can change these names but basically in the render files now we'll see in here this list of short kind of QuickTime movies and they don't have doc MOV at the end but basically these are our render file so you can see it's from frame 0 to frame 1020 3 and so on and so forth now these render files can be regenerated so we can actually delete these here so if I hold down command and press the backspace key it will delete those render files and now if I come back to Final Cut Pro I'm actually I just need to come down here and right-click and empty my trash and we come back to Final Cut Pro then we can see if we go to the library here that the size has dropped right down again so those render files are basically being deleted so that's a manual way that we can delete those render files and that's really useful if your computer is completely full up and you can't even open up Final Cut Pro everything is behaving very slowly then you can go in and kind of right-click on those libraries and delete the render files those render files in your libraries if you have a look at the size of them so let's just have a look at another one in here you can see I've got render files in here if I do command and I you can see there's not many in here there's 55 megabytes but this would be where you would find those kind of bigger file sizes and this is where arctic whiteness is library manager is useful because it scans those Final Cut Pro projects and so without us having to go through all of these and figure out where I've remembered to delete render files and where I haven't remembered to delete render files I can basically go through into Arctic witnesses library manager and it will show me where I can delete things so now we'll dive in and have a look at the library manager which will show us how we delete files on mass much more easily so we're going to come to Final Cut library manager by Arctic whiteness and basically in here Arctic whiteness will scan a drive or a folder and find all the Final Cut Pro files that you have in that particular folder so you can see here there's a whole bunch of different Final Cut Pro projects where I haven't cleaned things up so I'm pointing this at my Final Cut Pro tutorials folder and just to kind of keep things simple although we can point at an entire hard drive but basically in here of the tutorials that I've created you can see that lots of these have over 10 over 50 gigabytes worth of space that I can save by deleting those render files so I've got this customizing the interface tutorial and in here you can see that if I have a look at the interface here when I've selected that folder I can select my library I can open this up and kind of have a look at what's inside there and I can also then check my render files so basically down here at the bottom it's saying from what I have checked I'm gonna clean out 62 gigabytes for a potential saving of almost 300 gigabytes and I can go through and see which files are not working anymore so I'm not working on this unboxing or the mic stand so I can clean up the render file and these blue files are the optimized media so I can clean those up as well so you can see by selecting the render files in the optimized media from those top two libraries I'm clearing over a hundred megabytes and I can really clearly see what I'm clearing here in Final Cut library manager so I finished this tutorial as well and I have finished this one too so we can clean these up so we're gonna get close to 200 gigabytes soon which is great and some of these files are quite old so I haven't looked at this file since the 2nd of August and I forgot that I hadn't cleaned up the render files on there so now I can just check this box and it's gonna delete those render files I know that if I open that project again then I can get those render files back so once I've selected a series of files that I want to clean up then I can use this button at the bottom the little brush click that and basically I'm gonna get this little message so I found a couple of library murderers telling me that I can delete 156 kilobytes of these files but at 55 of what I've selected are basically not gonna be deleted because they have this little error message there and I need to go and check those so if I hit delete completely it's now going to delete those files but it wants me to quit Final Cut Pro so I'll quit Final Cut Pro and continue cleaning so you can see far a cut line Jen's basically gone through those different libraries cleared out the render files on me when it's not sure whether it can or can't delete some of these optimized files so we can go in here and have a look at the project itself and see if we can clean that as our haps open the project up but as we go through you can see we can keep selecting those render files for the most part and clicking clean and then deleting large chunks and render files all in one go so if you're working across a lot of drives and Final Cut library major from rky this is really gonna save you a lot of time if you're working on just a few projects on Final Cut Pro 10 then basically using the internal management tools or going into the library yourself and deleting files will probably be enough for you there is also a demo version well which will do the scanning but not the cleaning so you can basically check that and see how it works before you kind of commit to buying it and deciding whether it's the kind of app you want so I hope you found that you torille use for managing project size and the library size as Final Cut Pro continues to render things as always a challenge and if you have any questions about it then please do leave a comment below also if you do delete files from your projects then do let me know in the comments how much you saved how much space you saved in gigabytes on your hard drive it'd be interesting to to see how many gigabytes we we save by kind of using these techniques so thanks for watching and I will see you on the next tutorial

Channel: Ben Halsall: Final Cut Pro X & Adobe Tutorials

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Length: 16min 21sec (981 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 01 2019