Duplicate project

[Jeremy Garchow]

What steps are you taking to duplicate?

[Joost Boekhoven]

Hello Jeremy,

In the project library I choose duplicate project, and then I choose Duplicate project only, without render files. When necessary I select a new destination.

Regards,

Joost

[Jeremy Garchow]

Great. If all files are linked, I don’t think there’s any reason to try and relink again.

When you look at the Project in the destination drive, is your original hard drive still plugged in?

Jeremy

[Joost Boekhoven]

Yes, it is.

In the meantime I discovered that after another cold start of the computer, the next day, the clips returned! In complex clips with detached audio, sound and images were no longer synched, but they were there.
Now I don’t dare to switch the computer off any more…

Joost

[Don Smith]

Joost, Try this: With the project CLOSED but selected, go to the info window and at the bottom there you’ll see the option to ‘point’ the project to the right Event. Makes sure the Project is pointing to the right Event before you go crazy and start relinking files that might cross Events.

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[Joost Boekhoven]

Hello Don,

Thanks for your reaction.
Do you mean the button Modify Event References?
I tried that twice just now, with two different Events on top of the list, but the missing clips did not turn up. Missing according to FCX, that is, because since the second restart of the computer I can’t see anything missing.
Still it makes me nervous that I don’t know why a number of clips disappeared after the first restart; it may happen again and not be solved so easily.

Joost Boekhoven
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[Don Smith]

If you see two events attached to your project then FCPX will check the one at the top. Possibly it’ll check the next one down if clips are missing but I don’t know that as a fact. I do know it will help to put the desired Event at the top of that list. Just drag.

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[Joost Boekhoven]

Hello Don,

I’ve done that. There is a whole series of events connected to my project and one by one I dragged a number of them to the top. What I see then is that FCX spontaneously highlights all events in that little window, one at the time, sometimes two at the time, as if it checks them one by one, then the highlighting stops.
In the info window on the right nothing changes; still there is the indication that one clip is missing.

When I open the Modify Event References window again, I see that the event that I dragged to the top a moment before, has gotten a lower position again; a new one has spontaneously risen to the top. It is another one every time.

It’s an interesting phenomenon, but I don’t understand it and it doesn’t work the way I expected…

How can I find out which clip is missing? Relink Files is grayed out. FCX is very busy with something; it uses more than 100% of the CPU, even though it’s not rendering anything.
Mysteries, mysteries.

Hope you can bring some light in the darkness!

Thanks,

Joost

[Don Smith]

When was the last time you trashed your FCPX preferences?

I do it about once a month. I use the very nice and very free Preference Manager.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/download.html

Trash your FCPX preferences and then let me know if there’s a change.

Don Smith
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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joost Boekhoven] “How can I find out which clip is missing?”

If a clip is missing in the Event, it will have a little yellow warning triangle on it.

If you want to do this from a Project, select the offline clip in the timeline.

Click on it, and open the “info” tab of the inspector.

Click the gear in the right hand corner of the inspector window and choose “show file status”. This will show you the original location of the file and what Event it’s coming from. Find that file and drag it back in to the Event.

[Joost Boekhoven] “FCX is very busy with something; it uses more than 100% of the CPU, even though it’s not rendering anything.”

A background processing/analysis action might be turned on.

Click the “Progress Wheel” in the center of the interface next to the timecode display.

That will bing up the Background Tasks HUD and it should show you what is being processed. You can turn it off from there by hitting the ‘x’.

I would also take the advice and trash your preferences. Then reset your prefs the way you’d like them with background options on or off as you see fit.

Jeremy