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Apple's penchant for libraries

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I got around to using imovie in a serious way for the first time to make a video for a training session at work. I don't think I can pass up the opportunity to have a dig at Apple's typically unintuitive controls, but when you get it, it works well (and far better than something like Windows movie maker).

Anyway. I filmed and imported approx 8GB of video onto my computer. Now having finished the imovie library is 12GB.

I understand that importing everything into a single library makes it easier to ensure all the files are always easily accessible, and not easily accidentally deletable.

On the other hand, with the originals, I am now using 20GB of storage (17%) on a 120GB SSD for a 4 minute video. I could be using 10-ish GB (allowing for clips,sounds and samples).

So - wasteful (?) disc usage vs convenience and control of content within the video editing software.

I also found out that itunes tries to create a huge local library of all my networked music unless you untick the default setting (what's the point of network storage if you cache a copy locally???rarg).

Is this just the apple way that I'm still learning to love or does it strike anyone else as awkward?
 
Are the movies converted to another format like DV?

Personally, I'd prefer to have everything cached and optimized for speed. Disk space isn't that expensive.
 
When I had to move a movie project onto a flash drive to go work on it at a different site w/ a different computer, I wished it made a library to make it easier to grab everything and resume at the new location. I eventually started making local copies manually.
 
I don't think the movies were converted. There were a few .mov and 3 big .mp4 fils.

TBH I hadn't thought of the portability aspect. I guess I could leave the library on our server when in work.

There are pros and cons to most things, I guess with just 120GB it seemed the con was larger than most of the pros.
 
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