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Media Management in FCPX
Hi All,
I am running FCPX on a MacPro (2×2.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon, 6Gig RAM). I have a 2 TB external drive connected to it. I want to import files and have FCPX transcode them, and store the transcodes on the external drive. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to give me this as an option. FCPX sees the external drive, because it allows me to import files from it, but it wants to store the transcodes on my internal drives (which are too small to hold all those transcoded clips as well as all the other things I have on them). Does anyone know if I can have FCPX transcode directly to the external drive? If possible, how do I tell it to do this?
I’m currently transcoding with MPEG Streamclip onto the external drive, but it would be much cleaner to have FCPX do this on import.
Thanks! -Dave
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16 Replies
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You import all media in to an Event. Create an Event on your external hard drive through FCPx, then import your media and it will go to that event/hard drive.
Jeremy
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The problem is that when I go to create a new event, FCPX does not show my external drive as an option. How do I get it to see the external drive? (Again, it sees it as a source of imported files, but doesn’t give me it as an option for creating a new event).
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So when you create a new event, you can’t put it on your external drive? Is it HFS+ formatted?
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When I go to Create New Event, there is a dropdown box to select the drive. When I open that, it shows the two internal drives but not my USB external drive. And here’s where I crash into the edge of my technical knowledge – I don’t know what HFS+ formatting is, or how to check it.
BTW – I really appreciate this help!
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Maybe X doesn’t want you to edit on a USB drive? USB is a bad idea for editing. For some reason X likes the system drive which is also a bad idea. Get yourself a firewire drive/array or an esata array or wait for the new thunderbolt drive/arrays which blow both of those out of the water.
OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz
; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A. -
USB works fine on my iMac and MacBook Pro.
Best,
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Have you ever formatted your USB drive?
Many times they come NTFS formatted for Windows. While Macs can read them, they can’t write to them without a third party utility like MacFuse.And as others have said, USB2 is not a good choice for editing even if it did work.
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Open Disk Utility click on the disk and look at “Format” down on the bottom. Should say “Mac OS Extended”. If it says MSDOS or something, that’s your problem.
Jeremy
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AHA! It’s formatted as MS-DOS (FAT32). Is it possible to reformat it as Mac OS Extended without losing all of the data on it, or do I have to start at ground zero?
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[David Bernstein] “Is it possible to reformat it as Mac OS Extended without losing all of the data on it”
Unfortunately, no. You have to move that stuff to another drive, then reformat the drive, and then copy it all back.
Jeremy
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