Final Cut Pro Automatic Asset Management

[Shane Ross]

Nope…you gotta import the footage manually. I don’t know of an NLE that does this. If something on the root level of a folder changes…like adding footage….you need to add the footage to FCP. It won’t do it automatically.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brian Douglass] “Is there anyway to sync my imported folders so that if I import or change the folder in the finder (or on the network) that the bins in Final Cut are updated? “

That’d be nice. Smart Bins.

Send feedback to Apple about it. I’d love this feature.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

[Will Griffith]

You may want to take a look at this…
https://mxf4mac.com/mxf4qtimport

Allows you to import MXF and edit immediately…even if the
files are not done copying, or in your case being updated
regularly.

Not much use if you can’t work with MXF files though.
(P2 files, XDCAM, etc)

[Andy Mees]

what you’re describing is a “watch folder” ie a folder linked to a bin that automatically imports media dropped into that folder. you can set this up with a little applescript / appleevents and xml

in many ways, this is what the recently released Loader app from Digital Heaven offers … you should check that out cos its a real gem.

if thats not quite what you’re after and you have any coding chops then you’ll find that most of the grunt work has already been done for you and is freely available from Apple’s dev site as part of the sample code in the MovieAssembler app
https://developer.apple.com/samplecode/MovieAssembler/index.html

Once configured properly, MovieAssembler monitors a watch folder for newly copied media files, using ID tag(s) stored as metadata to specify if and where a particular media file should be inserted into a selected sequence. All of these operations, while performed in Final Cut Pro, are initiated and configured from the MovieAssembler application.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andy Mees] “in many ways, this is what the recently released Loader app from Digital Heaven offers … you should check that out cos its a real gem. “

Not really the way he wants it though. Don’t you still have to drag files to Loader and then it sorts it by file type to folders in the Finder? Maybe I am misunderstanding it, but loader won’t update a current bin in your project, it sends stuff to a new bin and keeps files on your finder organized. Right? Cool application, just not what a Smart Bin would do.

Brian wants the bin to update with a new movie without touching a thing, kind of like a Smart Playlist in iTunes (for lack of a better term). But it would have to involve some sort of XML as of right now, or FCP would have to change the way it works.

Look what I found from a year or so ago, some familiar faces and familiar answers 🙂 Funny.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/955711

Jeremy

[Martin Baker]

As Jeremy says, Loader won’t add files automatically.

What Brian wants isn’t possible at the moment with FCP because you can’t use XML to add new items to an existing bin in the project. That’s why Loader creates a new bin for every import.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Andy Mees]

Heee … indeedy, nothing new under the sun, eh? Question is why hasn’t it happened yet? Is this where I get to say “Apple are you listening?” (in caps of course if I was going for the full effect)

[Paul Dickin]

[Andy Mees] “Question is why hasn’t it happened yet? Is this where I get to say “Apple are you listening?”
Hi
Cut them some slack… 😉
Look at the difference of Log & Capture – with its integration of metadata directly into the transferred QuickTimes – and the old 1997-revised2002 Log & Capture (and the rest of FCP).

Log & Transfer is Cocoa code, I’m told.
The ton of old stuff is Carbon, am I’m sure Apple has been rewriting it as fast as their code wizards can – and all the new stuff in the iPhone’s QuickTime X is probably now mapped out, for inclusion in FCP.
Then there’s Snow Leopard’s new features, and 64-bit to add to the equation…

Of course the $64,000 question is whether this mountain of new code will even be far enough along the line for Apple to preview it at NAB 2009….

Personally I think its probably best done well, and all the new in-depth features integrated, rather than rushed.
In my opinion.

All this is supposition, but there are enough people around here who just might be Apple alpha testers, and whose demeanour seems far from worried and fearful of the future – NDA or not! 🙂