fcpx can’t find usb3 disk

[Jeremy Garchow]

What format is the drive? It should be OS Extended. You can check this in Disk Utility.

If OS Extended, check your Borwser prefs in fcpx and make sure that “sort by hard drive” is on. I can’t remember the exact term, but the controls are right below the browser in the left corner.

Also, your events and projects need to be in a folders marked “Final Cut Events” and “Final Cut Projects” on the root level of the external drive.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andy Branner] “THAT is something you NEVER want to do, unless of course you’re totally into unreadable, corrupt events. In which case: go for it!”

Copying with the Finder is OK as long as you know the process.

It really depends on what you need to do.

The folders do need to go in a specific place in order for FCPX to “see” the Events and Projects, so once that structure is learned, using the finder is OK.

You should also hide the Events and Projects on the original drive so that there aren’t any conflicts.

By the way, the name of the option is “Group Events by Disk”. Here’s a screen grab:

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Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

I use the Finder a lot. It works for me. It is the only ay to hide certain elements without buying other software.

Using the Finder is just fine, just know the rules.

[Jeremy Garchow]

If I have 20 versions of an edit, and I want to hide 18 of those, what else can I use if I don’t have Event Manager X?

If I don’t have FCPX on a computer, and I need to move media to another Volume, what else can I use?

If you know the rules, it’s very easy.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andy Branner] “Yes. None of which you bothered to mention, you simply suggested “sure… go ahead”. “

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/344/24793

[Jeremy Garchow]

Also, for Björn-

I didn’t say you have to use the Finder, I said you could use the Finder.

FCPX has great ways of dealing with media management, but it can sometimes make unnecessary copies of media, and that might be messy depending on your Project/media, and it can also leave behind media that you thought you had with you. It is really dependent on how you started your media organization in the first place.

If you use the Finder, you can select which pieces and parts you want to copy over, exactly.

This may be advantageous to you, or it may not. I am unfamiliar with your Project and end goals. What works for me may not be best practice or you.

I don’t see anything mentioned here to be an either/or debate, but you should certainly be aware that there are multiple ways to go about what you need to do.

Jeremy

[Björn Obenius]

OK,
I won’t argue about this because I don’t have enough experience with fcpx yet. I only know that I have copied in Finder earlier and that has worked well.
So the problem probably is the formatting. I’ll try that. Thanks for your input!
Björn

vidiot

[Steve Connor]

If you have a camera rushes folder, something like an AVCHD folder or similar on the root of your Hard Drive it can show up as a camera instead of being a drive. Might be worth checking for this.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Steve Connor]

[Andy Branner] “[Jeremy Garchow] “it can also leave behind media that you thought you had with you.”

Nonsense. Not if you actually know what you’re doing.
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Any chance you can leave the aggressive posting and challenging people over on the FCPX or Not Forum Andy? It doesn’t sit quite so well over here.

Using the finder to move projects and Events is a perfectly acceptable procedure if as Jeremy says If you are confident to do so, there is NO more or less risk of corruption than with Event Manager X.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[John Fishback]

I use event Manager X, but have used the Finder without issue since 10.0.6. I’ve archived this way and have had no problems going back working with those archives.

John

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