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Crisis! Need assistance ASAP (Moving Events without FCPX??)
Hello all,
I’ve got a major issue on my hand. I came on board to help perform some last minute colour corrections and sound edits on a short film. The issue is that the client handed me the hard drive that has the event and project on it, however when I try to load it, FCPX hangs… It doesn’t open no matter what I do.
I discovered the problem is the hard drive is so slow, a 5400 rpm with a slim usb 2.0 connection, that nothing I can do will let it load in time. I copied the original video files off of it, and all 16gbs took 8 hours to copy. Just to make sure it wasn’t my computer, I copied those files again to a esata drive, 6 minutes flat.
Now its my understanding that you have to be within FCPX in order to ‘move’ events from one drive to another. But seeing as I can’t even do that, is there a separate work around. Every time I’ve tried to copy the event, I get a warning and it prevents the copy. I’ve tried to ‘move’ it using the finder function and it just hangs.
This is NOT a big project, its a 10 minute video, with less than 20gbs of media. I don’t know what to do. Help!
I’m really starting to panic here, the client needs these changes asap and It won’t take long to do but I can’t even open the project to get to work!
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13 Replies
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No need to use FCPX to copy or move events. It’s useful in that it will give the new copy a new event id, but in your situation you can safely copy in the finder level.
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That’s what I thought, but whenever I try and copy the Event and Project for that matter from the hard drive to a faster drive it starts then stops at 3.5 MB, again this is only a 19 GB Event… it shouldn’t be that hard…
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And this is what happens when I leave it alone…
Does this mean its corrupt?
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Sounds like you’re having issues with the particular HD. I’d do a disk repair in disk utility.
Copying over the event file is the most important part, if you have the source media the rest can be recreated.
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OutOfFocus.TV – Music videos, docs, entertainment. -
can you copy any event file? either the main one or one of the backups?
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Nope, it just ‘prepares’ but doesn’t actually copy anything over.
Also it hangs Disk Utility when I try and repair it…
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Really sounds like a corrupt HD to me. The only thing to do is to try to recover an event file from the folder. If you have disk warrior or something similar, I’d try that out. I’d also try a reboot and let disk repair work on it some more.
Trust me, the most important thing when dealing with potentially bad or corrupt hard drives is patience.
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OutOfFocus.TV – Music videos, docs, entertainment. -
Yup, disk utility just confirmed it:
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yeah grab what you can, I have had a lot of luck with disk warrior, might be worth it.
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If it is not a mechanical issue, Disk Warrior may save your bacon. It has for me more than once. Good luck.
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