Hedge has released Arctic, a library manager for Final Cut Pro users based on the program Final Cut Library Manager by Arctic Whiteness. With Arctic, we can manage our Final Cut Pro projects and free up hard drive space quickly. Let’s take a look!
Hedge, the software company behind solutions like OffShoot and DropOff, has released Arctic, an evolution of the original Final Cut Library Manager (FCLM). FCLM was released in 2014 by Vincent Zorzi and Timothy Arms as a solution to their own needs to deal with FCP’s management of storing media and generated files outside of libraries. Ten years later, Hedge’s agreement with Vincent and Timothy has made possible the launch of Artic, a completely new app that picks up the torch from the original FCLM.
Arctic: an easy way to manage Final Cut Pro files
The name ‘Arctic’ is a homage to Vincent and Timothy’s company, Arctic Whiteness. Although the interface looks like the original FCLM, Arctic eliminates some crashes inside the program that were annoying users and adds new settings and improvements.
With Arctic, we can locate media, assets, and caches and clean up everything we don’t need. Arctic tells us which drives we need to connect to work in an old edit to consolidate a project on a single location or prepare a travel library. The search engine allows us to search event names, project names, notes, comments, media keywords, media file names, and their personalized names in Final Cut Pro.
Arctic helps us stay organized and free up disk space. If you are an FCPX user, you know how fast hard drives get eaten up by projects and generated assets. With Arctic, we can delete render files, caches, and optimized media in a single click, slimming down libraries to keep them at a decent size and avoid moving them to another hard drive. The cool part is that we can do all this outside FCP and without getting lost with Finder.
Another feature in Arctic is the ability to create project templates from existing libraries and the settings we choose in Final Cut Pro. Finally, Arctic’s Quicklook feature gives us quick access to files exported in Final Cut Pro, and we can share a link via email or visit the webpage where we published it.
Per Tim and Vincent’s suggestion, FCLM adopts Hedge’s license model of a fully functional perpetual license. Each new license includes a year of updates and support, so all required updates for macOS and Final Cut Pro versions released within a year after purchasing are included. To get access to another year of updates, you’ll be able to extend your license for a small fee. It’s our goal to bring that fee to near-zero; the more people extending their license, the cheaper it becomes for everyone.
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Price and availability
Arctic is now available on Hedge’s website at $49 for new licenses and $19 for owners of Final Cut Library Manager (they receive a 60% discount coupon via e-mail). Users who purchased their FCLM license less than a year ago will get a 100% discount coupon. Both discounts are valid until the end of May.
The Arctic license is perpetual, works on macOS, and includes a year of updates and support.
What do you think about Arctic by Hedge? How do you organize your Final Cut Pro libraries? Let us know in the comments below!
