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Drag and drop vs. Importing
Hello CC members,
I’m working on a project that is going to rely heavily on pdf documents. I have hundreds to import into the system. My question is this, Should i be using the import function rather then dragging and dropping the pdf’s into my browser or is it a mute point? I started out importing pdf’s a group at a time because I’m trying to keep things organized in a certain way and i can’t really import all the pdf’s at the same time… so i started to drag the pdf’s into my browser group by group. Is there any kind of draw back to dragging and dropping pdf’s documents into the browser. Thank you in advance.
Matthew Troyansky
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13 Replies
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You can do it either way, just be sure to put the PDF’s onto your media drive before you import.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Matthew Troyansky] “or is it a mute point?”
That should actually be “moot” point Matthew.
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Thank You Walter, What happens if i have the documents on my desktop and i drag and drop them into my project which is saved on my media drive? Will it just mean that i wont be able to use the pdf’s unless i’m using the desktop they came from? Thanks again.
Matthew Troyansky
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[Matthew Troyansky] “Thank You Walter, What happens if i have the documents on my desktop and i drag and drop them into my project which is saved on my media drive?”
FCP doesn’t move any media. So if you erase those documents off your desktop, they’re gone.
Also, you don’t want FCP pulling anything from your System Drive, which the Desktop is a part of.
So your workflow should be: Copy all PDFs to your Capture Scratch first. Then Import all PDFs into FCP.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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You can always create a new folder on your scratch disk and place the pdfs in the folder. In FCP, use import folder.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Thank you very much Walter and Steve. I appreciate all your help.
Matthew Troyansky
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Just as a side issue regarding the subject line, when I need to import stuff into FCP I normally drag from finder. The reason is that in finder I can press the space bar on an item to preview it first. This is especially helpful when searching our sound effects server. I haven’t seen this functionality within the FCP ‘import media’ browser.
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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That should actually be “moot” point Matthew.
I like that someone else out there does this.
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I look at it much differently. I put my project and all psds, pdfs, etc. on my system drive in the my folder with all my other projects. These are all things that are going to be rendered in the end, and as such DO end up on the media drive, as rendered elements. Larger files like AE renders end up on my media drive because they are going to be used and accessed as is.
Everybody’s different. I’ve tried it so many different ways and keep coming back to this one. The main thing that has changed is the speed of the system, and it’s almost negated worrying about all these little idiosyncrasies. Almost.
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Better yet, just drag the folder into the browser, creating a bin automatically.
A small trick, since many of us fill the entire screen(s) with FCP and it’s bins and therefore hide FCP to navigate the finder…
Navigate to the folder in the finder. Then cmd+tab back to fcp. Press cmd+tab to bring back the finder on top of FCP. Drag from there right into FCP.
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