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moving imported EX-1 media around in FCP
Hi everyone, I am new to both Apple and FCP and am turning to you experts for the right course of action.
I shot 2 different events on one 16Gb card, which were later ingested into one FCP project using the “log and transfer” feature.
It was done by another editor who did not realize there were different events that should have been kept seperate.
Since one event has nothing to do with the named FCP project, how do I move the video files from one event into a new project, without the new project always referring to the original for the files? Is it a simple drag and drop? Do I have to set a new scratch disk?
Am I making this more complicated than it is?
Thanks for any help.
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[Robert Semeniuk] “Am I making this more complicated than it is? “
Maybe a little. You can make the clips you don’t want included in the first project “offline.” Right or Control-click one of the clips in Final Cut Pro’s Browser window and choose “make offline” from the pop-up menu. You’ll be presented with a few choices: Make offline but leave the media on the hard drive or make offline and move the media to the trash or make offline and delete from the hard drive. Choose the first option.
Create a new project and navigate to your “offline” clips by using the File>Import command from the Final Cut Pro menu. If you want, you can go to that particular folder before you create a new project (not by using any particular program) and create a new folder. The shortcut for that is Cmd-Shift-N (in the Finder). You can then drag and drop your EX clips from the first folder into the new one. Then start FCP and navigate to the new folder and do the File>Import thing again.
If you want to keep your render files, Audio Waveform cache, Thumbnail cache, etc. for the new project separate from the first one then go to the FCP menu again and click on System Preferences. Choose the new folder you just created in the Finder as the new destination for everything. You are now done.
BTW, if you ever need any help on stuff that is more Sony EX-specific drop into the Sony XDCAM-CineAlta Forum here at the COW. A large chunk of us EX shooters use Final Cut Pro anyway and we’re more than happy to help out a fellow EX owner.
Welcome to Creative COW, Robert.
– Don
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Thanks for the response Don. This whole thing has been quite a learning curve for me so I appreciate the help of people like you. When I get to work today I will try the steps you’ve laid out.
My confusion rests in the premise that every FCP project requires it’s own scratch disk and media associated with it. Using media from another project, I surmised from reading about FCP, is troublesome- if you change the associated projects media it starts to affect other alias projects. Hence every project has it’s own media. True or true?
There are a few things I have to clean up and I would think if the method described is successful, then that is how I shall proceed.
Thanks,
Rob Semeniuk
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[Robert Semeniuk] “Using media from another project, I surmised from reading about FCP, is troublesome- if you change the associated projects media it starts to affect other alias projects.”
FCP is pretty good about remembering where everything associated with a specific project is stored. The trouble comes when you delete a finished project and the some of the referenced media for your new project was contained in your old project’s scratch folder.
Every time you start a new project it’s generally accepted that you should create a new scratch folder. Getting organized right off the bat makes your editing life a whole lot easier when projects get big. The main “gotcha” about FCP is that when you bounce around from project to project FCP is not “scratch folder aware” and will not change the scratch folder for a project unless you change it yourself. FCP editors have been asking for this feature for years and it’s a PITA to go to FCP’s System Settings and change all the file destinations each time you want to change projects.
– Don
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