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Manage system folders

Manage system folders - Media Composer Tutorial

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Manage system folders

- [Instructor] In addition to getting organized in your project window, you're probably also going to want to get organized on your storage drives. There's a great temptation to just stuff everything inside a folder and hope you'll find it later and that's okay if you've got two clips and a couple of graphics, but over in my desktop I've got an example folder structure here for you to take a look at that is the sort of thing you might want to create for a new project. And remember, you're doing this at the beginning of the process. So, this is in our projects folder. I've got an example folder structure. I'm just going to double-click to open this up. You can see, if I just flatten these for a second, that most of these are just empty at the moment. There's and Avid Media Files folder that we can put things into if we want to take them somewhere. Obviously, if you are going to use this media it needs to be on the root directory of your storage drive but if you want to copy, you can…

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