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How to remove a video effect
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Your target drive must be formatted hfs+ (Mac os extended)
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Yep, that was it. Reformatted it, and now I see it and can Move the Event to it. Awesome!
Okay, at this point, the whole Event is moved there and everything appears to be working correctly.
I’m no longer Copying the original media over to the Events folder, since the Raw Media is on the same external drive as the Events now, and that would just be a redundant waste of space.
Only thing I’m still not 100% on us pointing all those earlier clips in my timeline (that I brought copies of into my Events) to the original media? What I mean is, I have a number of clips on my timeline, before we started chatting, that are referencing a copied file in Events. I think I’d like to delete the copies and have them only reference the Optimized Media I’m creating off each new Import. Is there a clip-by-clip way to do that? Or can it only be done globally, from a Project level? If the later, than I have no idea how to do that.
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If there’s an article on this you know about, or a YouTube video that shows someone doing it, you could link that too and it may be easier than trying to explain it all. Thanks!—
Dennis Widmyer
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What I would do is eject the orig drive, then either single clip the project and choose the inspector and modify event references. Or simply drag all the media from the new drive on to the event to relink.
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Sorry, single click, not single clip.
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Hey Jeremy,
I don’t think I’m being clear. Right now, I have a timeline with about 41 clips on it. They all reference the correct Events folder. So that’s not what I’m asking to do.
The problem is that, within that Events folder, I have three folders:
1. Original Media (which is mostly aliases at this point… which is what I want across the board)
2. Proxy Media (because a few days ago I was trying this out, so this folder has a handful of clips in it too)
3. Optimized Media (also has clips in it)So this is a mess. I have transcoded files in three formats, spread out across three folders.
I want them all to be either just be Optimized or referencing the Original Media as an alias.
In order to do this, it seems I have to go to Window > Show Project Library. Then some new item appears in my timeline, which shows my clips in the Project and the attached harddrive. (note: my Project is local, in my Macbook Pro, whereas my Events folder is now on the one external drive, thanks to you! 🙂
When I single clip the Project here, and go to the Inspector and click ‘Modify Event References’ it brings up this window that just tells me where my clips are and shows me the external harddrive. This function doesn’t seem to go much further than this though. Again, I think this is a function for controlling where your project references its Events.
But I’m trying to almost do, like an ‘online.’ I want to control individual clips and where they reference, from within the project.
Is that even possible with FCPX?
Thanks.
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Dennis Widmyer
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It’s me that’s not being clear! 🙂
Ok, to make it easy:
Trash what you don’t want (but keep your camera wherever they are stored).
Link to anything you do once those clips go offline through the various methods we discussed.
Either modify event references, or drag the aliases on the event to relink.
Jeremy
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Okay, doing a test right now.
– I went into my Events Browser (my bin of clips being used in this Event).
– I right clicked a file I wasn’t using in my sequence, but one I had imported and transcoded into the project, and then Revealed the File in Finder.
– Once there, I saw that I had 3 duplicates of this file. One in ‘Optimized Media’ one in ‘Proxy Media’ and a copy of it ‘Original Media.’
– I deleted all three of these. (again, I originally began importing files into this Events folder with all options selected and quickly ran out of harddrive space. So I’m trying to clean up the space now and only import Optimized Media and leave copies of files out of the Events folder)
– Now the file is showing up as a red thumbnail in my browser, with a yellow exclamation mark. In other words, “Media Offline.” (see screenshot 2)Now, using the methods you suggested, I opened up the Project Library Window. As far as I know, this is the only way to get the ‘Modify Event References’ option to appear in the Inspector. But here’s where I hit a dead-end: I click the ‘Modify Event References’ option and just a bland pop-up comes up, telling me how many files are linked to this project… Yet it doesn’t give me any specific options from that point on. In doesn’t let me *modify” anything. (screenshot 1)
I included two screenshots to this post so you can see what I’m seeing.
Screenshot 1: https://f1.creativecow.net/2862/final-cut-x-screenshot
Screenshot 2: https://f1.creativecow.net/2863/media-offline-fileHow do I either:
1. Relink this media that is now offline to a new source file?
2. Or, simply re-import it as ‘Optimized’ media and then link to that source file?Thanks!
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Dennis Widmyer
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[Dennis Widmyer] “- I deleted all three of these. (again, I originally began importing files into this Events folder with all options selected and quickly ran out of harddrive space. So I’m trying to clean up the space now and only import Optimized Media and leave copies of files out of the Events folder)”
Why didn’t you just delete the transcoded media file keeping the “original media” alias folder?
[Dennis Widmyer] “But here’s where I hit a dead-end: I click the ‘Modify Event References’ option and just a bland pop-up comes up, telling me how many files are linked to this project… “
Well, you just deleted all the files out of the event, so there’s nothing to link to.
[Dennis Widmyer] “1. Relink this media that is now offline to a new source file?”
Like I mentioned, you drag the clips (which will be your original media) from the finder on to your Event and it will relink.
[Dennis Widmyer] “2. Or, simply re-import it as ‘Optimized’ media and then link to that source file?”
You reimport it with the optimized media box clicked. The clips that are in the “original media” folder will remain aliases if you keep the option to “Copy files to Final Cut Events folder” off.
Jeremy
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Thanks again for all your help on this, Jeremy. You’ve been extremely available and quick with your replies and I appreciate that.
I think I got it all figured out now.
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Dennis Widmyer
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[Dennis Widmyer] “I think I got it all figured out now.”
Cool, glad to help.
Jeremy
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