External Hard Drive stuff

[dylanpipe]

On my MBP I have only like 88 GB free of memory and Im going to be filming here real soon. So I am in need of a external so I can move all of my FCPX crap onto an external. But I've been reading and it seems like a pain in the ass to move footage and project&events seamlessly. First of all I have about 280GB of footage( raw and edits) on my hard drive. So a 1 TB hard drive would be ample room correct? Any brands to especially avoid? So, how exactly would I move basically everything already on FCPX onto a hard drive.



And, if I wanted to keep my hard drive semi empty and this year put all my footage on the external also and edited off that, is that easy?

 

[Exact]

Simple. LaCie 1TB USB3/Thunderbolt drive works very well for me. 95MB/s in USB3 mode, 115MB/s in Thunderbolt mode using Blackmagic Speedtest.

In terms of moving the FCP stuff, that's simple as well! Make sure FCPX is NOT running then simply move the Final Cut Events and Final Cut project folders to the new drive and delete them from your system drive.

If you want to verify that the new folders are good before deleting the old ones, rename the old ones (add another character like '_' in front of the folder names) and run FCPX. It should see the folders on the external drive no problem - then you can delete the old ones from your system drive.

I've done this many times.