Is it possible to merge two FCP projects?

[Jeremy Garchow]

YOur assistant should export XMLs of the bins and then you should transfer the media to your drive via sneaker net, transfer that footage to your main hard drive, import the XMl and reconnect the media.

Jeremy

[Jim Krause]

Thank you very much for the quick response. Since I have his project file, I suppose I can export the XML myself (from his project file) and import it into my own project? I’ll give this a try.

thanks again!

– Jim

Jim Krause
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[Colin Wiencek]

You can also copy and paste Sequences from file to file, to the same effect.
-Colin

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jim Krause] “Is it possible to merge two FCP projects?”

Yep, this is incredibly easy.

Just have your assistant sneakernet his project and media to your system.

Move the media from his drive directly into the Capture Scratch of your project.

Open his project while yours is still open.

Drag the bins from his project into yours or simply drag the media clips from his project into bins you have already created.

Close his project, eject and disconnect his hard drive array.

You might have to quit FCP to eject his drive correctly.

Re-start FCP. His newly moved media might come up as Offline, simply reconnect the media and you’re good to go.

No XML, No Export, nothing, simply drag and drop. We do this all the time.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Jeremy Garchow]

Yep. If you have his project file, simply open it up and drag the bins you need into your project file.

[Jim Krause]

Thank you very much. This is kinda sorta what I’ve been doing. I was concerned if this is safe practice, since I’ve been creating many mutlicam clips- which create clips *inside* of the existing clip’s bin. And these bins are what the PA has been adding to and modifying. I’m going to create a separate bin for multicam clips- so they don’t interfere with the bins he is modifying and I am re-importing.

Thanks for your help, and everyone’s too
Creative Cow ROCKS, and also goes moo

(You can tell I’ve been at this too long)

– Jim

Jim Krause
tabletop productions https://www.ttop.com
(812) 332-1005

[Carsten Orlt]

Just a little warning 🙂
always copy the new clips to your project and not your sequences to his!!
because otherwise you loose your master-affiliate links which means there is no link between your clips in the browser and your seq.
e.g. you wouldn’t be able to use ‘show clip in browser’ from your seq
or
changing the name of a clip wouldn’t change the name in your seq
etc…

Carsten

[Ben Scott]

is it not good to ask to create master clips when copying pasting 2nd sequences across, then all the browser clips come across properly?

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben scott] “is it not good to ask to create master clips when copying pasting 2nd sequences across, then all the browser clips come across properly?”

There’s no need to if you have logged all the clips. All the clips retain their original names when they come across so there’s no problem.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Chris Mastropaolo]

Walter,
When you say drag and drop, do you mean to drag the whole project and all of it’s contents into the capture scratch folder, or do you copy each folder’s content (example, capture scratch, waveform cache, autosave vault, etc.) into each corresponding folder of the main project?
Thanks, Chris