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FCPX issue: issue merging events (duplicate media with same name)
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Organizing simply means that fcpx imports any media that is currently referenced outside of the Event. In short, it creates a hard copy in the event.
It will be good for you so that you make sure that all of your necessary media is in place before you remove the old Events.
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Pardon me for butting in but I am just exploring the ‘Consolidate Media” functionality myself and wonder whether this might be helpful in this instance?
I may be barking up the wrong tree of course but I think it might get rid of your duplicated media?
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Consolidate moves media from multiple drives to one drive.
If all the media is already on one drive, consolidate doesn’t do anything.
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So maybe we need a Consolidate Events command?
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You can easily drag Events from one hard drive to the next using FCPX.
What is a more difficult process is finding 5000 pieces of media spread across three drives and having to manually bring those pieces of media to one drive. This where Consolidate comes in handy.
If you want to move and Event to another drive, there’s the “Move Event” command, or you can drag and drop in the FCPX Event Browser.
You can then “Organize” the media to bring all the media, physically, in to the Event folder.
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Okay that’s a new one on me…so I selected my Event and hit Organise Event Files and got this:
“The selected Event refers to files outside the Event folder. To copy all external Media into the Event folder, click continue”.
Not sure I get that.
I need to do some homework!
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When you import media that is already .mov, you have an option in the preferences to copy the media to the Event. If that is deselected, the media is referenced (aliased) in the Event.
Later, if you want to make a copy of the media in the Event, choose “Organize” and it will replace the alias files with a real copy of the media.
Consolidate simply moves media from a bunch of disparate drives, to one drive. This is different from Organizing.
The manual actually explains this much better than my broken English (which is the one and only language I know how to read, write, and speak).
Jeremy
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