SEE: How to build a budget-friendly home video setup with expensive-looking results (TechRepublic Premium)įinal Cut Pro creates proxies and optimized copies of the original media so it doesn’t bog down during the rendering of your videos.

Whew – crisis averted.īut that same problem continued rearing its ugly head, and every time I’d wind up deleting those library files – until I found a better way. So, I deleted the libraries and reclaimed hundreds of GBs of internal storage space. After all, I had renders of all my videos, and I didn’t need to keep the bits and pieces lying around. Without thinking, I deleted them, assuming I could just pick up where I left off – or, worst case, I could start anew. After a bit of digging, I discovered the problem was the Final Cut Pro X library files. Something was amiss, and I had to fix it fast otherwise, macOS would start misbehaving. ICloud Usage Policy (TechRepublic Premium) How to boost your iPhone’s battery chargeĬlean your Mac before you break down and buy a new one But why? I didn’t store a lot of media on the drive, nor did I save a ton of downloads. Five years ago when I first began this voyage, I ran into a rather strange situation: The 1TB internal drive on my MacBook Pro had filled up.

I use Final Cut Pro X daily to edit the video clips I create into consumable formats.

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