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Copy a Project and referenced media to another drive
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Lately I’ve been working with a producer in a similar fashion. We both have the same media on our systems. The producer is roughing, and I’m finishing. She just sends me XMLs of the latest sequences. I import those and since the media is already in my library, it sees it and never have to relink or do anything. If she happens to import a new shot, she’ll bring it or dropbox it. The nice thing about the XMLS is there’s no need to create a new library without media in it. The XML is super small by default because it contains no media. By exchanging XML she could work In her system with managed media and I could use external, or a mix of the two.
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I’ll look into Fcp x XML but have no experience.any gotchas. Or look out fors. It’s easy for me to bring home the p2 cards from each shoot. Do the folders have to be identically named in the finder and in fcpx?
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[Bret Williams] “the few long format gop formats it did support, didn’t get clipped to handles.”
You remember correctly. And that’s my guess why it hasn’t been (and most likely never will be) implemented. Since I’m guessing the vast majority of media nowadays will be Long GOP of sorts and FCP understands them natively (unlike 7). They are therefore “untrimmable” and that would only confuse things if the option were available (especially for novice users) and then didn’t actually work after all because of it. And even if it did, it would take an inordinate amount of time to actually do it with that kind of footage. So I see no advantage outside of maybe a few exceptions with very small projects. But if they’re small, why even bother? 🙂
[Craig Alan] “there is no great need to archive unused media.”
You can of course simply filter the event by “Unused”, select all and ⌘-DELETE. Same result, less steps.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “ou can of course simply filter the event by “Unused”, select all and ⌘-DELETE. Same result, less steps.”
Will this approach shrink the size of the library and support files, thus saving storage space?
Also will the unused filter work on unused portions of clips or only whole clips?
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[Craig Alan] “Will this approach shrink the size of the library and support files, thus saving storage space?”
If by “support files” you mean render, cache etc. files, then no, of course not. Those you can delete separately as needed. It will simply delete either the actual clip out of the library, if it’s managed, or simply it’s alias that leads to the original, if external.
[Craig Alan] “Also will the unused filter work on unused portions of clips or only whole clips?”
Any unused clip, whole or portion. If any (other) PORTION of a given clip is being used in the active project, then merely its reference in the event is deleted (which can be restored with a match frame if needed).
– RK
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Thanks. At some point I will need to clean out the raids we are using and these tips will make it asier to back up stuff worth saving.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Have you tried the Ripple “Transfer Library” system for such workflows instead of XML?
Seems to make a lot of sense.
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