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Event and Project Libraries
I have many partitions over 4 internal hard drives and 1 external hard drives, half of which are back up drives.
in each of the Event Library and the Project Library they show every one of the partitions and drives despite the fact I am only using one to hold my projects and sequences.
How do I stop it showing every redundant hard drive partition in these areas? i bought that event manager thing but didn’t help. Doesn’t even list all the partitions and drives for me to click them off and those it does list I click off but they are still there.
In addition, do I have to have the event folder and the project folder at the root of the hard drive? I like organising things in a logical way to me and I have my projects thus
hard drive > projects > fcp x projects
but I can’t get to that point to put my projects (events) into that place?
Please can someone tell me how to do that and remove all the redundant nonsense (ie hard drives that are not being used for this purpose) it is spewing into these two areas?
Cheers
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The only way to remove the drives is to unmount them at the finder level before you launch FCP.
The events and projects folders have to be at the root level.
All the best,
Tom
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“The only way to remove the drives is to unmount them at the finder level before you launch FCP. ”
but that is just stupid. obviously i’m not going to unmount a dozen drives/partitions each time i use FCPX and having them show up without even a choice to hide them from view is, er, well just stupid.
Is there any logic behind that or just a lack of thought that perhaps some people who will use it aren’t running it on a mac book pro with a single drive?
Hmmm. Dear oh dear.
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All the drives will appear in the event library and the project library.
All the best,
Tom
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Sure, I get that, but it doesn’t stop it being stupid. Or at the very least a lazy over sight. It seems a tad off it hasn’t been rectified when a big alleged boon is how streamlined and clutter free it is meant to be.
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Click the gear icon at the bottom of the Event Library, then uncheck “Group Events by Disk”. None of your hard drives will appear in the Event Library, only FCP X Events that exist on your mounted drives. If no Events exist on a particular drive, it will not appear in the Event Library.
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That’s a great start Gabriel, thanks. De clutters the event place. Shame the same can’t be done for Projects, especially as they are sequences and I tend to have a lot per project. I think that end is going to get messy.
In fact, is there any way in Projects Library of removing the thumbnails and having the project info on a single line. At the moment each project takes up 3 lines when all I need is the project (sequence) name. That way I can see up to about 20 at a time rather than 5.
What is this obsession with making everything all big and space hogging? Has it been designed with the chronically nearsighted as a big target demograph?
And still a bit annoying it doesn’t allow me to permanently hide my back up drive which has my projects on because every time i boot up the first time it has an error message telling me there are two versions of it.
Guess i’ll have to live with that but thanks for the other, a good start.
Thanks again, appreciated.
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You could stop using projects altogether and just work in compound clips. That’s what we do.
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