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FCPX – consolidate media does nothing for me
Has anyone successfully used the Consolidate project media, or organise media function and what is the difference by the way?
I’m in the process of backing up my edits and since my master project/sequence references several events, I need to consolidate the project media in order to avoid having to copy over the events that are not intended as scratch folders. It is in fact only a single file being referenced by each of the other events that I don’t want to be added during the ‘Duplicate Project’ process but I do need all of the media within the main Event to be copied.
All I get is a message saying, ‘There is nothing to consolidate. All your media is already consolidated on one disk.’ Not exactly that but close enough.
I could of course do it manually in the finder and it looks like that is the only way right now unless someone can shed some light on this little conundrum. I suspect it’s another bug that needs fixing.
Otherwise loving FCPX.
Many thanks,
Boris J.
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I would think you want organize, not consolidate.
Or you could consolidate to another drive completely.
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Sorry I didn’t make it clear that I do in fact want to consolidate to another drive, the point being that despite the project referencing 3 events, FCPX does not want to consolidate project media. It says everything is already in the single event, when it clearly isn’t.
I copied and pasted a title from another project into the current one and it is this single file that is being referenced.
So the question is why does the Consolidate project media function not copy over those two files into the main event, thus ‘Consolidating project media’?
Many thanks,
Boris J.
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Sorry to be a pain, but tell me exactly what you are trying to do.
You have three events on a current drive. You want to consolidate those three events in to one event on a new drive? Everything works except the one compound clip?
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I have a Project that I want to back up to another drive along with the associated media from the main Event.
The reason that I need to consolidate project media is that the Project also references two other clips in two other Events and obviously the intention is to just have FCPX copy those two files to the main Event to avoid having to copy the whole of the two other referenced Events. It does not do this for me and simply states that all of the media is already in one location when it clearly isn’t according to the modify references section.
Is that any clearer?
Many thanks,
Boris J.
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[Boris Jansch] “Is that any clearer?”
Yes, and thank you.
I think you need to use the move project command to the destination drive (or simply quit FCP and copy what you need over), then use consolidate on the new destination drive, and choose the one you need (copy, move, copy used only, etc).
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You seem to have experienced exactly what I came across. This feature does not appear to do what the user manual says it’s supposed to do. Here’s is a thread I started on Apple’s FCPX Discussion.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15652597#15652597
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[Kevin Patrick] “. This feature does not appear to do what the user manual says it’s supposed to do. Here’s is a thread I started on Apple’s FCPX Discussion. “
I think it does. It moved events to other disks, it also might move the media, it really depends on how you imported it in the first place.
I take it you are 1 open loop?
I think you are getting the terms confused. When you import media aliased, FCPX treats that alias as media being on the disk. This way if the original media needs to stay put, it will. When you consolidate, it will only consolidate what’s in the actual event (which in your case is the alias). If you want the hard media in the event, then you need to use the “Organize” function to bring the actual media in to the event and get rid of the alias. The transcode function would work too, also media dependent.
Consolidate will consolidate events and associated media IN THE EVENT, not the media that the event might be linked to.
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In the FCP X User Manual it states that the Consolidate function is used when your media is located on multiple hard disks. If you execute the Consolidate function you have the options to Copy or Move referenced events. After you click OK, the manual states that your Event(s) should now be on the same hard disk as the project.
That sounds to me like this function is used to move/copy referenced Events to the same location as your project. It’s in the section of the user manual about backing up your project. It states that before you backup your project you should Consolidate it’s media and then back it up.
But, when I tried it, it did not work. FCP X came back with the message that there was noting to Consolidate. I interpret that as, there is nothing to move/copy. When in fact that’s not the case. The actual media for the Event was not in the FCP X Events folder. If I then backed up my project, I would not have the media, just an Alias pointing to the media.
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[Kevin Patrick] “The actual media for the Event was not in the FCP X Events folder. If I then backed up my project, I would not have the media, just an Alias pointing to the media.”
Ok. I’ll try again. When you imported the media the first time, did you leave the option to copy media to event unchecked? What camera is the media from?
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I created a new Event.
I Imported a clip that was on an external RAID drive.
I chose to leave the clip on the RAID drive, no copy.
I chose Reveal in Finder and FCPX took me to the folder inside FCPX Events and found the Alias for the clip, as expected.
I right clicked the clip in Finder and it took me to the RAID drive where the clip was. Just to make sure the link wasn’t somehow broken.
I chose Consolidate Media and FCPX said there was nothing to Consolidate.
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