Now let's get the videos set up in Final Cut Pro, you should have downloaded the zip files by now I recommend that you copy the files to an external hard drive. If you don't have a hard drive, you can move it to your documents folder. The problem with editing your files on your documents folder is that it'll use up Computer Space real quick. Now I'll double click my external hard drive to open it and I'll create a new folder, click the actions drop down menu and select New Folder. I'll name the file FCP, x dash short videos. So everything that we work on will be saved over here, copy the zip file by dragging it over.

It's always important to organize everything in folders because you want to keep everything in one spot. Now that I copied the file to my hard drive. I'll close this Finder window over here it's time to double click the zip file to extract the video clips and the folder. The zip file should have opened up the folder by now if you're curious to see how much space you have in your hard drive, go to View show status bar. You can see how much harddrive space you have available and you can see the number of files in the current folder. Now I'm going to trash the zip files because I'm not going to do this.

If you want to empty your trash for good just right click with your mouse and empty trash. And yes, I am sure I want to empty the trash. I just want to show you all the video clips that we'll be working with over here. So let's get all this in Filmic Pro. If this is the first time opening up Monaco proton, go to your applications and drag the app to your dock. So from here on, you can just open it in your docks panel.

Once you click this icon, it'll bounce around until Final Cut Pro 10 is finally open. And you'll notice how close the Finder window if I'm not using it just because I like to have my space clean and organized. Now give us some time to open up and let's make sure your workspace is the same as mine so you can follow along with me go to Window workspace and default. You can see everything looks just like mine. If you have another library open you can close it by right clicking the library and selecting closed library. We are going to create a new library by going to File New library.

I'm going to name this first few videos. You can give it your name if you want. This is where you Pre different video projects, you can go ahead and put your last name. I want to save my library in the folder that I created and click Save. So this will create my new library and if you right click the library and select reveal and finder, you can see where the library is saved. The library file is saved here in the folder that I created.

I'll go to View show path bar and I can see the path of folders I need to select to go in there. I'll go back to Monica Pro, and in my library, I have events, Monica pro created an event for me I want to rename it by flux and this event. I'll hit enter and name this travel. This is where I'll put my travel projects. I'm going to show you another way to find where your events are stored in your drive. Just click the little smiley face icon which is in your finder and navigate to your library.

Right click and select Show package contents. Here you'll see as a travel folder that's also displaying as your events. It's time to start importing the videos. I'll go back to Final Cut Pro. Click on this import button over here. Now let's search for Calico ghost town compressed folder and select it.

Here are the settings I have on the right you'll see I want the file to be imported in the travel events all select Add to existing event and ensure that travel is selected. Under files I want to leave the files in place I'll only copy the files if I have an SD card inserted and I want the video clips out of that SD card. Other than that I don't think it's necessary to have another copy of the same files on my hard drive. It will just use up more space. I'll have these keywords selected so Final Cut Pro can categorize them you'll see the benefit of checking from folders in a bit. Let's go ahead and click Import selected.

Now that the files have been imported under my travel events folder, Final Cut Pro treats keywords based on the name of the folder. Let me go ahead and look for the Calico ghost town folder and I'll show you the categories under travel. I'm going to select here off like a pro 10 store videos. And I see the folder over here. Now you can see the category under travel a lot and I click this disclosure triangle and it makes a keyword based on the folder that I created for you. So if I have separate folders from my Disneyland trip and Calico ghost town trip, it'll put them in separate keywords and I can search by category.

Other than that, I don't think I need to go into too much detail about categories because you're probably getting anxious to edit files are imported and now we can create our first project on the next step.