How do you rename an event?

[Jerry Hofmann]

If you click twice on the name (not the icon) you can rename it. I’m unclear on what the ramifications (if any) are by doing so, but don’t immediately see a problem with this.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

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[Alex Baird]

Thanks for the info. However when I double click on the name of the event I get no edit ability.
Any Ideas?
-Alex-

[Brad Jordan]

Click once to select the Event and then click once over the name. It will enable the name edit. If you change it, it immediately changes the event folder name in Finder. I checked it. Looks like it keeps everything updated. You have me curious on what if I change imported clip names.

[Alex Baird]

Hmm…It must be something I am doing. I cannot get the name to edit after clicking on it twice. I have tried one click, wait, another click..no dice. I have tried two quick clicks. Right mouse click does bring up the context sensitive menu. Can’t seem to find a keyboard combo for edit name either.

Try a reboot and see what is up.
-Alex-

[Andrew Corneles]

Just wait a few months, Apple is not stupid, they’ll add that functionality back in – besides, this is a new start. Can’t live in
the past.

sorry 😉

[Alex Baird]

Likely to be so.

I wonder if background tasks/rendering prevents renaming.

I guess that renaming in finder is not recommended

-Alex-

[Geoff Dills]

Works fine for me…very similar to the way you rename files in finder, click once, wait a beat, click again and it is highlighted, ready to edit.

Best,
Geoff

[Jerry Hofmann]

That’s the behavior I’m seeing here too…

I have seen mice cause problems with this though.. If I have a fresh battery in my wireless, it sure seems to act better.

Jerry

Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann

Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup

8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.

[Jonathan Dortch]

You can also push Enter to rename an Event like renaming in After Effects. It will change the name of the folder on your hard drive as well.

I did encounter a bug where I couldn’t change the name of a folder in the Projects browser. All the double clicking and pushing Enter in the world did nothing. I quit out and changed the folder directly in the Finder and FCPX reflected that change.

JONATHAN DORTCH
BLACK WOLF CREATIVE

[Nevin Styre]

I had a similar problem, couldn’t rename a project in the project manager. then adding folders would do nothing, I kept trying & eventually after quitting and restarting FCPX I could rename it, there was also 10 new folders I had created that weren’t showing up before I restated.