FCPX UI goes ‘screwy’

[Jason Jenkins]

[Lawrence Eaton] “My one (and only gripe) about FCPX compared to Legacy is the ability to ‘wrap’ up a project and move it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to archive it. NOW, saying that and realizing that FCPX is built around the core of a dB the relative ease of moving projects+events is not the same. Probably why a good many people have had initial ‘issues’ with FCPX. So, the move project option or the duplicate project option is satisfactory as it is. It is purely a matter of getting my mind around the dB side of things and how that works.”

Lawrence,

You should check out this article on using disk images with FCPX: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_managing_disk_image_martin.html
It’s an easy way to control which events FCPX sees when it launches and it is super easy to move, duplicate and archive the disk images.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Lawrence Eaton] “My one (and only gripe) about FCPX compared to Legacy is the ability to ‘wrap’ up a project and move it lock, stock and two smoking barrels to archive it. NOW, saying that and realizing that FCPX is built around the core of a dB the relative ease of moving projects+events is not the same. Probably why a good many people have had initial ‘issues’ with FCPX. So, the move project option or the duplicate project option is satisfactory as it is. It is purely a matter of getting my mind around the dB side of things and how that works.”

Actually, X makes this pretty easy depending on how you choose to bring in and organize your media.

If you bring everything in to the event, you simply take the folder in the FCP Events folder and drag it to your archive medium of choice. “Consolidating” or “Organzing” your media before you do this will help ensure it stays organized and will bring everything to one drive or one Event.

On the project side, any folder you make in the project browser will also show up in the Finder. Before archive, you can choose to delete render files if you want (as well as the event) to keep things more slim, but you don’t necessarily have to.

Then simply use the Finder to drag the appropriate Project folders to the archive medium
of choice.

When it comes time to restore, simply move the Event folder to the drive it needs to go to, as well as the Project folder. If you aren’t using a SAN this will be in the Final Cut Pro Events and Final Cut Pro Projects folders on the root level of your chosen media drive.

If you are using a SAN, you can move it anywhere and then add that folder as a SAN location. Right now, you can only have one SAN location open at a time. You can put multiple Events/projects in a SAN location.

In my opinion, once you understand how it works, it’s actually very easy, especially of you bring everything in to the Event at first. FCPX has decently easy tools to help you organize that media if it’s not in the Event. FCPX does take the approach that you want to save everything in the event. Projects have an option to save only the “used” media. In FCP7, I archive absolutely everything anyway so FCPX works the same way for me.

But what do I know, FCPX is for amateurs! 🙂

The disk image method linked to is interesting. If that works for you, cool. It is not listed in the manual, however. No
offense to anyone here or there, but I wouldn’t personally recommend it as proper media handling, but thats not to say it doesnt work.

As far as your screen captures, what program do you use to capture them initially?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sorry, on an iPhone. Some of that came out sort of jumbled.