Having media on different drive to event file

[Bill Davis]

Don,

I generally agree with your thinking on this with one exception.

In the past, I thought of original assets as the equivalent of tapes and copies.

That’s changed to this extent.

Now that I’m working with source CLONES – which is to say Disk Images or Sparse Disks – that paradigm has changed – each clone (no matter where it’s stored) once launched will trigger FCP-X to use the available data to repopulate an Event and it’s attendant Projects.

This has been transformative for my field footage backup and access processes.

It just doesn’t matter as much WHERE X finds a needed asset – what matters is only that it can see the source ID that it’s looking for somewhere attached to your system.

I think I mentioned the project I’m currently editing. I’ve got a timeline that references footage from 3 different drives. If the clips on Drive 3 were to be damaged and go offline. I could launch a clone of that disk image from a totally different drive and X would link right up and go about it’s business happily.

This is WAY different from Legacy where finder location was the key to re’linking.

With X finder location is largely unimportant (unless you’ve messed with something fundamental to the X database like futzing with Project or Event locations in the Movies root folder.

FWIW

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[Bret Williams]

I was recently blown away by how little FCP even cares about the particular event even. As long as the files are the same, they can be scattered across unreleated events. Example given –

A producer is roughing stuff at home on X. She has a bunch of events. Kinda like one event per bin. (But hey, shift-f is a lot handier that way!) Anyway, the media is all over too. Some optimized, some linked to folders, etc. She had previously given me much of it, but she’s been adding. So there’s no sync or matching events. Wasn’t a problem.

She brought in the new projects and new media. Aside from having to hunt some down she forgot, I just copied the media to my raid, and dragged in the folders as keyword collections to the one single event I was working with. But I did bring in her projects obviously. Each one of course said all the event was missing. But that’s really not an issue if you have the media. No need to relink project files or anything. The project files are linked to the event. I just go to the project settings and modify event references. It instantly tells me that the files are available when I redirect to my event. I point a project there and instantly it’s up and running. No individual file relinking.

I was worried because I kept reading about people keeping duplicate events and all that. FCP X projects don’t care where the files are. The event keeps track of the media. The project just looks for the event. It’ll gladly relink to the files in another event, but you just have to tell it to.

[Bill Davis]

[Bret Williams] ” The event keeps track of the media. The project just looks for the event. It’ll gladly relink to the files in another event, but you just have to tell it to.”

Which is totally consistent with that idea I keep harping on about metadata flow.

If an event is happy, then any project linked to that event is also happy – since the metadata flows through the event and downstream into any and all connected projects.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Don Smith] “Someone here suggested that render files are moved to the Event when you organize the Event. I don’t believe that’s true. Render files live in the Project folder.”

There are both Event render files and Project render files.

Obviously, they pertain to whether or not the rendering happened in the Project or the Event. There can be both.

[Don Smith]

Jeremy..

RE: “There are both Event render files and Project render files.”

This is a good example of why I love this forum. I learned something new. Thank you.

I can see how there would be Event render files because you can edit within the Event folder in addition to editing in the Project.

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