Identify and Move/Copy media from a SPECIFIC drive/location?

[David Roth weiss]

[Adam Bedard] “I now want to identify only media I used from that drive and copy it somewhere local.”

Media Manager will in fact allow you to identify media in your project and copy or move that media to a new user-specified directory on a user-selected hard drive. However, the principle method employed by Media Manager is based on user-organized media within selected bins and/or sequences chosen from the FCP browser, not by their location on a particular hard drive.

So, in your case, if you know that every piece of media in one or more bins resides on hard drive A, and you wish to move or copy everything in those bins to hard drive B, that is possible. Or, if you know that every piece of media from one or more sequences needs to wind up in a directory on drive B, that’s possible.

So, by creative organization of bins and/or sequences in the browser you can outsmart Media Manager and achieve your desired result, but simply selecting media by it’s hard drive location can’t be done.

Does this make sense?

David Roth Weiss
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[Adam Bedard]

Thanks David for the quick response. And Yes – your response does make sense. I’m sorry to hear there is not a way to have FCP make this distinction and provide management accordingly. I do typically try to organize my timelines/bins so that I can easily isolate various types of media. It will be an added challenge to do so with file location in mind as well. Especially on a tight deadline. Seems like an easy feature to add in a future release of FCP.

This is my

[David Roth weiss]

[Adam Bedard] “I do typically try to organize my timelines/bins so that I can easily isolate various types of media. It will be an added challenge to do so with file location in mind as well. Especially on a tight deadline. Seems like an easy feature to add in a future release of FCP.”

There are many ways to accomplish these types of things even now in FCP if we put our minds to it, but yes, stronger media management with all types of novel ways to move things around should not be all that complicated to add in a rewrite of FCP should be be lucky enough to get a new one. The version we’re using now is however really based on ancient technology, so from time to time we have to invent workarounds, but it’s amazing just how flexible this old dog (that would FCP, not me) can actually be.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Jeff Greenberg]

Yes, you can do this, but it’ll take a couple of steps.
We have to find it; copy it; then relink it.

Finding it
In your Browser, right click on any column other than the name column, and show SOURCE.

Now you know the name of the drive (or even the FOLDER) that your music came from.

With NOTHING selected in FCP, Edit>Find
In this project, search for all media, and Any Column (or change it to source) contains the name of the drive/folder.
FIND ALL.

You’ll now have a ‘psuedo’ bin containing everything from that specific place.
Optional – you could copy these into their own bin at this point – if you drag them into a bin, they’ll no longer be located in their original bin. If you want to copy them, make sure you hold down the OPT key while dragging them.

Copy
With these clips selected, File> Media Manager
Choose Copy, don’t delete anything, based on existing names, don’t create a project
I’d argue you should target the Media folder it’s about to create with the rest of the imported items from that project.

Relink
While you’ve identified these files (step 1), copied these files (step 2), you haven’t linked the clips to them.
Select all the clips, Make offline (leave files on disk)
Then select them, relink and “LOCATE” the new media folder.

Whew.

Best,

Jeff G

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