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FCPX “insistes” on copying clips to main drive
This is a great forum… I have learned many-a-trick so far. Thanks everyone.
In experimenting, I moved my project’s clip material manually to an external drive. Edited material on the time line and in my Event Library were marked “offline,” as expected. The only way I could figure out to “re-link” the material was to re-import the clips from my external drive, which I did with the option to Copy Files to Final Cut Event Folder turned off.
Everything relinked fine, BUT FCPX keeps wanting to copy the material to the Final Cut Event Folder (even though there are aliases that point to the proper place where the clips are located on the external drive). I quickly turn off the copying in the background activity monitor, which is what I have had to do every time I restart the project.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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In the Event Library select the hard drive you want to use. Create New Event. That will be where your media goes.
Also
Select Import Files
You’ll have the option to Add to existing Event (media goes to the Event and the drive it sits on or
Create New Event and you can see that you can select the hard drive location for the Event where the media goes.You can place the Event on any hard drive your system sees and the media will also go to that hard drive.
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Thanks, Craig. I’ll try it tomorrow and let you know.
Also, Craig, thanks for your great tip re marking ranges as “favorites”; I was going crazy trying to deal with disappearing in/out points. Also, after creating favorites, looking at the clips in list view allows you to open favorites in a tab on a given clip, making it east to give names to those favorites, or allow you to cut then into the timeline with ease. This makes choosing shots very convenient (like the grease pencil on the workprint in the old film days).
(FCPX has some amazingly powerful tool and interface hooks)
Thanks.
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