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Super Large Final Cut Pro Library Size

Hi!

I am new to Final Cut Pro and am using to stitch together some small home videos shot in 4K.

I have roughly 5 videos and all I have done so far is to scrub through them to select the parts I want to input. looking at the file size of the library and it is a whopping 110GB!

I was careful to leave the original files in place and selected "optimized media" when importing the videos.

If this continues I will be out of storage within the next 15mins. Looking through posts I saw that some people recommended deleting the proxy media but I don't have any to delete and following those steps did little to help.

Any help in this regards is deeply appreciated!


Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Jan 9, 2021 12:55 AM

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Posted on Jan 9, 2021 2:30 AM

Did you select the library and do File->Delete Generated LIBRARY Files?


The text on the menu and what gets deleted change depending on your selection.

If you did, then try quitting FCP and see how much space you got back.

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