leave in place import

[Bret Williams]

Leave in place and unmanaged are the same thing. Neither is bringing them into the managed library. Where did you leave them in place? You need to figure out why their path is getting lost. You’re not losing any edits but I’m sure it’s getting annoying.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Try trashing the alias files in the Event.

You have to “Show Package Contents” on the Library, then find the event folder, find the original media folder, and then trash the correct files that pertain to your media. Then reimport.

[Craig Alan]

Well on the other events within this library I have elected a different folder than the library to hold the media thus in the library there are links to this other folder. When I chose leave in place (the original card copy) in the import window, there are no links in the library thus the problem. Maybe it would work if i wasn’t using a different folder for the media for the others.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Craig Alan] “Well on the other events within this library I have elected a different folder than the library to hold the media thus in the library there are links to this other folder.”

Can you explain this a little more, please? Maybe a screen grab?

[Craig Alan]

select library>
storage location>
modify setting>
navigate to folders for media/ render/ backups.

When I then imported my copies of P2 media cards, the media was saved in the media folder and the library contained aliases linking to the media folder. So I now had imported but unmanaged media and a copy of the original P2 cards.

However, the drive began to get full.

So on I the last import, I selected “leave in place.”

No aliases were saved in either the media folder or the library. Reimport takes a split second or two.
But needs to be done at every open library.

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[Bill Davis]

So essentially “leave in place” is you telling X to create symlinks that refer to the original P2 cards. That’s the original “place” where the footage is stored. The delay you’re experiencing is your computer reading in the card directory structure when it’s mounted so that X can then “see” the locations on the P2 cards where it expects the media to be. So it makes perfect sense. It’s also frighteningly dangerous to me that you might be working with your camera masters as the only bucket containing the entire original media files. You’re one static discharge away from total disaster. If I were you. I’d run out and buy one (or better two!) cheap external hard drives, and make FCP X Camera Archives of every card you have IMMEDIATELY.
Working from just one digital file without a backup is nuts.
My 2 cents.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

No matter what, X rewraps p2 media to .mov.

I would consolidate the media out of the first library so that you have access to it in multiple libraries.

[Craig Alan]

Thanks Bill, I know all this. And have preached it a million times. I have the entire project on my pegasus raid at work. I need to review the footage at home for preproduction prep reasons. And I ran out of space. Working on a remedy. Namely a usb 3 card for the Mac Pro at home so I can take a thunderbolt/usb 3 drive back and forth on projects I need both places. Leaving a copy at one location in case of disaster.

The latest version of FC is able to read the P2 cards without transcoding first, thus being able to leave in place.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Craig Alan] “The latest version of FC is able to read the P2 cards without transcoding first, thus being able to leave in place.
“

Unless you are working with a beta version that isn’t released to the public, FCPX 10.1.3 must rewrap P2 op-atom MXF to .mov.

This means that FCPX will create a .mov version of your media somewhere. The default location is in the library on the initial import. The “leave in place” option is greyed out during p2 import.

Again, I would consolidate the media out of whatever library it’s in so that you can access it from multiple libraries.

Jeremy

[Robin S. kurz]

[Craig Alan] “The latest version of FC is able to read the P2 cards without transcoding first”

I don’t see how you could be “leaving in place” when coming from a camera, card or archive, since that option is or at least SHOULD be greyed out for imho obvious reasons. You obviously don’t want to be (and again, shouldn’t be able to) working of the card itself. And yes, Jeremy is right, that FCP will rewrap and therefore first have to copy the media somewhere either way. So a few things aren’t making sense.

And if the directory of the files isn’t in fact changing between restarts of FCP, then I don’t understand why the files should be going offline either, no.

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