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Keywords/Events
Hi
I’m editing my first video in FCPX.
I’ve imported my DSLR and converted into proxies – of which there are 4 cards – so I have 4 events.
I’ve logged all my shots with keywords but, I now have the keywords for each event and I’d like to combine them into a ‘master’ keyword collection – for instance, of all the shots of ‘food’ from all 4 cards.I tried doing a smart collection find – however the find was limited to 1 event – not all of the 4 events.
So I tried dragging the other keyword collections into the smart collection but this doesn’t work.So now I have created a new Event and have dragged the keyword clips into this event and this combines all my keywords properly – However now I notice at finder level it has copied all these keyworded clips into this event!
Should I have changed the prefs – ie ‘copy files to Final Cut Events folder’ off before I did this? Or am I doing something fundamentally wrong like I should of imported all the media to one event to start with?
Cheers,
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8 Replies
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[jon smitherton] “I should of imported all the media to one event to start with?”
That’s what I do.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Yeah I generally put all media related to a single project into one event. And in your case I’d either discard the individual card hierarchy entirely, or I’d create a keyword for each card to being with. Then further sort by actual content once I’d had a chance to go through stuff.
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This might prove helpful too when dragging content into FCP X.
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T. Payton
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Thanks guys I get the idea…just think of Events as Projects not Reels…would you put the tape number in the ‘Notes’ as not to use precious keyword shortcuts?
Thanks,
Jon. -
You can use the ‘Merge Events’ function to combine Events.
[jon smitherton] “would you put the tape number in the ‘Notes’ as not to use precious keyword shortcuts?”
Why not use the reel field?
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Ah just found the reel field…Thanks Jeremy
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I’m working on a longer-term project, a documentary. I am still trying to find a backup solution that works.
I create a new event for each day that I shoot. I now have 50 events. The trouble is, sometimes I will log and apply keywords to multiple events… and there’s no easy way to backup the “work” I do (that doesn’t also copy the optimized media I may or may not have created.
I came across this thread because I am wondering what would happen if I created one big “master” event. That way at least I could work on and then backup the “CurrentVersion.fcpevent” file in one swoop.
What are the drawbacks I’m not thinking of?
Keep in mind that I will be dealing with hundreds of hours of footage.
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I did that once for two events with around 5000 clips combined. Merging to a single event took more than two hours of FCPX seemingly doing nothing (almost zero CPU activity and very light disk IO). Be aware of that and don’t quit in panic 🙂
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