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  • Consolidate Project to new drive not working right

    Posted by Elahn Zetlin on December 4, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    I wish to copy a project from one drive to another to be able to edit on a second computer.
    I select the project and go to consolidate project media.
    I select project and used clips as I just want to copy what media that has been used, not everything else.
    On the new drive I see that it has created a folder of reference clips, not actual media clips. As well they are of everything, not just the used media clips.

    Any thoughts?

    Bret Williams replied 12 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Bret Williams

    December 4, 2013 at 4:57 pm

    I think you meant you duplicated a project. That’s what makes a copy to another location. In any case, afterwards, open the new event and select all and choose file>organize event files.That will replace the aliases with copies of the originals.

  • Jeremy Garchow

    December 4, 2013 at 4:59 pm

    Yes. Don’t use Consolidate. It does not mean what you think it means and it’s confusing.

    What you want is to select the Project, Duplicate it, and choose “Duplicate + Used Clips” and select the destination drive.

    Once it is done copying (which should be very quick) use the “Organize” command on the Event.

    This will bring a hard copy of the material in to the Event.

    Jeremy

  • Jeremy Garchow

    December 4, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    Oops. Bret beat me to it.

  • Bret Williams

    December 4, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    Yep. What do I win?

  • Jeremy Garchow

    December 4, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    [Bret Williams] “Yep. What do I win?”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPyuZ6ZTqmo

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  • Bret Williams

    December 4, 2013 at 6:30 pm

    Ah, ummmm, errr, well…. Thanks?

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