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[David Eaks]

I agree with Jeremy and Steve. Using the Finder is perfectly fine, that’s basically all Event Manager X is doing right? Moving Event and Project folders at the finder level, but it gives you a simple interface and some extra options. I use Event Manager X for the convenience it provides but it’s no different than moving folders manually.

For FCPX to “see” a Project or Event, it’s folder must be within a folder at the root level of your drive called “Final Cut Projects” or “Final Cut Events” respectively. FCPX will automatically create these folders. Event Manager X just makes new folders called, for example “Final Cut Projects – Hidden” and moves projects/events between them for you. Pretty simple. As Jeremy said, once you understand the structure it is OK. With this knowledge Projects and Events can be moved no problem.

Of course this doesn’t cover the issue of moving an edit to a different computer and whether or not ALL of your media is contained within the Event folder (mine never is). Assuming all of the media is contained in a folder you made and organized in Finder (eg a “client folder” with video/audio/images/graphics etc. subfolders where you store everything for the edit), just take that too. Sometimes I’ll move simple jobs to my second edit system to get them out of the way while they export/compress/upload/burn, leaving the main system available to do other work. It’s simply- plug in an external drive via eSATA, copy 3 folders to their respective locations, eject and mount on secondary system, everything works.

But then this doesn’t cover whether or not the secondary system has those opening title and lower third templates custom built in Motion or if NEAT Video and SliceX with Mocha are installed etc. etc. My point is that what can be very simple can also be complex in other situations. Again, as Jeremy said, once you understand the structure it’s pretty simple. Granted FCPX has some great built in ways of doing things, when I want to move an edit I know right where all my stuff is, drag and drop in Finder is quick and easy and I’m on my way. Event, Project, client folder and any necessary templates or plugins. No problems. (Usually I forget the title templates, if any, and copy it over the local network

Like Steve said, if there is a camera card backup at the root level of your drive, FCPX might mistake the drive as a camera. To avoid this it is a best practice to backup cards into their own individual folders, preferably with the folder name identifying the camera and the shots it took.

I also agree that you should leave the combative attitude, degrading tone and “my word is the law” demeanor behind, Andy. It’s even a bit much over in the “FCPX or not debate” forum, IMO.

[Loren Risker]

Logical reasons to use the finder instead of FCPX:

1) FCPX is broken due to any reason that it breaks, so you want a clean start.
2) You’ve overloaded your computer with too many events and FCPX is SLOOOOOOOW.
3) You just don’t want to open FCPX because you don’t want it to take all of your connected hard drives and not allow you to eject them during a lengthy move process (I usually have 2-4 external hard drives attached to my desktop).
4) You’re work on 2 computers in 2 locations and use drop box to transfer just the event file and project file.

I’ve been manually moving my projects around since 10.0.0 – no corruption yet.

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[Dave Gage]

[Loren Risker] “I’ve been manually moving my projects around since 10.0.0 – no corruption yet.”

Same here. The only time I had corruption was back in 10.0.2 or 10.0.3. I tried consolidating and/or moving within FCPX (don’t remember the details), just to try it out, and it screwed up a test Event. For full disclosure, I don’t have clients, I just do my own work, so my needs are far less complex then most that frequent the Cow. If I did work for others, I might consider using Event Manager, but the way I do it manually in the Finder is very easy and I always know precisely where my files are (and why).

Dave