Mario Feil’s approach is as simple as it is brilliant, here’s the short version of how he does it:
When you are done editing your project (using the converted H.264 as ProResLT or other formats), you can delete or move your converted ProResLT files (or whatever other format you are using for editing) and re-open the Final Cut Pro project. Of course, the application won’t find these files as a consequence and ask you to reconnect the media.
When you reconnect, you simply refer to the NATIVE files instead of the converted files – both should have the same names and lengths, their only difference should be the codec within the .mov-wrapper.
Et voilá!
Final Cut Pro will automatically connect everything with the native files and you can re-render all effects right onto them, guaranteeing you the best possible quality from your DSLR footage while saving you possibly hundreds of gigabytes of converted data.
Should you ever need to change something about the edit later on, it should be quite easy to re-convert all the native footage into an editable format again and reconnect the other way round.
Please do check out Mario Feil’s new blog for details on how to do it, it will save you several harddrives if done right. I have just saved 400 GB from a recent project – it’s just incredible.
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