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How would you do this?
I have a few hours of archive footage from an FCP7 project, and I want to use some of the old footage in my current FCX project.
It lives on a separate drive.
I’ve already created an event on my older drive with the footage on it. It’s quite easy to sort and find the clips I want now.
Here’s my thing…
While I’m doing my first pass, I will have the archive drive connected, so I can easily pull some clips.
However, I want to keep my final project on one drive, so the clips I pull from the archive drive I want to end up copying onto my current drive so I can disconnect the archive drive and still have my footage online.
I don’t want to copy them one at a time as I select them. (I don’t want to slow down my editing,) I want to copy them after I’ve done my first pass, then disconnect the old drive.
What’s the best way to do this?
I understand that if I have the same clips on both drives I can easily modify the Event References order in the project properties, but first I need to get just the clips I’m using onto the second drive.
It’s sort of a pain revealing them in the finder one at a time, then copying them.
I suppose after my first pass, I could use the timeline index to look for all of the clips in my timeline that are from the archive drive, then copy and paste them into a new project (aka timeline) then “move” that project to the new drive along with the referenced media. Then it should make copies of the media from the archive drive onto the my current project drive.
I want to be careful here. I’ve tried moving projects from one drive to another, and I’ve run into trouble. I generally keep my media in folders, and leave them there when I import the clips into FCX, so I end up with links in my “Original Media” folder. I prefer this for now, especially if much of this media is in use by a FCP7 project.
My trouble has been that when I move a project, I’ve had FCX start duplicating the clips in the event.
After my first pass can I simply “copy” the project to my current drive? Ideally, it would leave the current media where it is, and only duplicate the footage from the other drive. I don’t trust FCX not to duplicate all of my current footage.
The fun begins.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Use the “consolidate” function. It specifically brings media from separate drives to one selected drive.
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Have you used the consolidate function Jeremy?
If I select “Copy Used Clips only” it seems like it should do what I want it to do. I’m still afraid of copying over all of the media I already have on the drive.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
Yes, I’ve used it.
Try it one file first if you’re nervous, and watch the BG processes as it’ll show you what it’s doing.
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Yeah, just what I was afraid of.
I added one clip to a timeline with 72 other used clips. The one clip was from the archive drive, and the 72 other clips were already in my event.
When I consolidated the project, FCX created a new event, put aliases for the 73 clips in the “original media” folder for the new project, then started to replace all of the aliases by copying the media. I let it get 4% done before I stopped it.
By the way, it wouldn’t let me stop the process, or quit the program until the process stopped, or delete the event until the background process stopped.
I changed the clip references to the original media, crashed out of it, moved the event folder with the new clips to hide it and reopened FCX. Everything was back to where it was before I tried consolidating.
Does this match your experience? Might I have done something differently from you?
I believe that what I’m trying to do is not abnormal. Nor should it be especially difficult to execute, although I can’t think of how I would do this in FCP7.
I think I may need to create a copy of my timeline, with only the media from the archive drive, then consolidate THAT, then try to change the references in my original timeline to the newly copied media. Either way it’s a bit of a mess.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
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