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archive two projects cut from the same events.
I have edited two projects, with footage sourced from the same events. Both projects use some of the same footage, and some unique footage. Now I want to duplicate both projects, using “+ used clips only” onto an external drive for archiving, but I don’t want to end up with multiple copies of the same footage on the drive. I tried duplicating both projects separately, then merging the EVENTS folders, trashing the doubled up clips, then relinking the lost footage from the project whose event I trashed to the event from the other project, but I keep getting an error message saying “Incompatible file : The original file and new file have different audio source and channel counts.” This is despite the fact that the deleted file, and the one I’m trying to replace it with both seem to be exactly the same, and I would have thought, were just copies of the original file FCPX transcoded when I imported it. Is there a simpler way to do what I’m trying to do, or any way at all? Generally I love FCPX, but this one little issue has been bothering me for days. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks very much.
Sam
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3 Replies
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Create a disk image and copy the 1 Event and both Project folders into it. Archive the disk image.
One file to store all data and nothing is duplicated.
Happy Editing
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Except of course backing up lots of unnecessary footage of course.
I can think of a simple way to achieve this. Copy the contents of project B into project A. Duplicate project A+used media only in new event. Now you have an event with the combined media and no duplicates. Then duplicate this new project but don’t create a new event. Now you have 2 new projects, each with both sequences on same timeline. Now, on one delete the other additional timeline, and on the other delete the other.
Make sense? Should work flawlessly.
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Brett, that makes sense. I’ll give it a shot, thanks.
Sam
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