Another FCPX Feature Request

[Jeremy Garchow]

You can drag a folder from the Finder to the Event icon in FCPX.

You should get a little bent arrow when doing so, otherwise, you will get a green plus sign.

A bent arrow will reference any connected media, a green arrow will copy media in to the Event.

Holding option should override copy or reference, changing the icon in the process.

You wouldn’t want to do this on a while volume, however, as then every importable file would import in to your event.

You would want to do this if your files are organized in the volume by specific Event(s).

I agree that this process could be better, but it can also do what you need as long as you know what to do.

Sometimes dragging and dropping is the easiest way to relink, you just have to know the caveats.

Jeremy

[Lance Bachelder]

This doesn’t address the issue at all. In your method you still need to drag a specific folder to the Event. Will this method search sub-folders that may be in the folder? FCPX creates a folder called Original Media inside every event folder and sadly cannot find this on it’s own.

Regardless of how well your method works for you, FCPX re-link still needs to be able to index a complete volume including folders and subfolders and find and re-link files wherever they may live.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Jeremy Garchow]

I don’t know how you organize your footage.

Let’s say it’s in a folder called “footage” and in that folder is a bunch of sub folders.

You can take the “footage” folder, drag it to the appropriate Event icon, and choose, with the option key, to re-alias the media, or reimport the media in to the Event. Either way, the footage will relink.

I understand you are pissed, but you don’t seem to be trying to use FCPX for the way it works, you instead are trying to force it to work like FCP7 and failing.

[John Davidson]

Lance, if you do a search for the first file in the list of files your reconnecting/relinking and type it in I think in the spotlight column at the top right (I think) and relink that one file, all files within the list reconnect assuming they’re ‘near’ the file you link to. Right?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Lance Bachelder]

Yes it will re-link all files within a folder – but you must point to that folder. You can’t just point to a drive and let it search all ht e folders etc like 7 or Vegas can.

I know there are some workarounds but this is still not acceptable – relink function should be able to drill down as necessary to find all missing files in my opinion.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Lance Bachelder]

Like I’ve said – all my current headaches are this feature film that was handed to me from another Editor who used FCPX and built a complete mess – all I’d like to do is get a clean timeline as ONE Event or Project that leaves all the 50+ Events behind so I can hit space-bar and wait up to 6 seconds to begin playing.

Copied and pasted final timeline into new comp in a new Event – of course all media offline when you re-launch via Event Mgr. This is fine but re-linking is a disaster – even when FCPX found several hundred files when I clicked re-link and came back 3 hours later it was only 23 files in! Sucks…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Erik Lindahl]

IMO OSX and FCPX with it should have more of an “understanding” of all the files in the system. Spotlight indexes everything so a FCPX project should instantly be able to find a clip based on name and meta-data. At the rare occasion of duplicate clips it could ask what file to use.

I’m quite amazed this hasn’t happened. It was one of the first things I thought would happen with the introduction of Spotlight almost 10 years ago.

Adobe products are equally “stupid” in this regard.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Lance.

It’s like you aren’t even hearing me. Here are the spelled out steps.

If your final timeline is a compound, copy and past it in to a new Project, or add the compound to a new Project and break it apart.

Open the Project Library and choose the final timeline.

Select it and choose to Duplicate Project (command-d)

Choose a location (perhaps a new hard drive) from the drop down menu

Then choose the third option “Duplicate Project + Used Clips”

Use the “All used clips” option.

Type in a new name for the Event.

Here’s a picture

Now hit OK:

This will create a new Event and new Project with only the clips you used in the final timeline at the destination of your choosing.

Now, select that new Event in the browser.

Choose File > Organize Event Files.

You’ll get something that looks like this:

Watch the background processes and you will see the files being copied over. Once they are done, you can quit FCPX, eject the original drive, and open a cleaned Event and Project.

jeremy

[John Davidson]

Let’s hope something like that gets incorporated into 10.9 “Sex Panther”.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Erik Lindahl] “IMO OSX and FCPX with it should have more of an “understanding” of all the files in the system. Spotlight indexes everything so a FCPX project should instantly be able to find a clip based on name and meta-data. At the rare occasion of duplicate clips it could ask what file to use. “

Andreas Kiel has utility that will help in this regard:

https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/

Then click on the “myFiles” option.