From Still to Motion: Editing DSLR Video with Final Cut Pro X

Understanding Events

The key to organizing your imported media is to utilize events. An event can hold as few or as many video, audio, and image files as you like. One way of thinking of events is as a traditional folder or a bin. Unlike previous versions of Final Cut Pro, each event in the Event Library directly maps to a folder that Final Cut Pro X creates on your disk drive.

The event folder will contain either a copy of the imported media or an alias linking to the original file. This functionality is controlled by the Organizing preference “Copy files to Final Cut Events folder.” The event folder will contain any rendered files or transcodes that you tell Final Cut Pro X to create. A database file is used to keep track of where everything ...