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Organizing Event Library per project..
Hello,
I am new to FCPX and my question is..
1. I created one project and created multiple Events as per my project needs. Now I am done with my project and I am starting a new project. But when I create a new project FCPX opens the old Event library anyways. I don’t want this Events associated with my new project anymore. How can I do this?
I want ro organize in a way such that a event library is associated with a project only? Can this be done?2. When sending the project to the compressor to create a the final movie file, does all the contents in the event library also get included in the final file or only the contents in the timeline gets exported?
thanks
Eins -
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Events in the event library are always available to all projects. You can manually move events to another folder to effectively take them offline and not have them show up.
You Can do it by hand but I’d recommend using the excellent app Event Manager X app to do the job. It makes it easy to move events and projects on and off line.
When you send to compressor, only your timeline is sent.
Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
video * audio * post * production
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Eins,
Your approach is a little odd, but nothing wrong with it, I suppose.
Typically, Events are the original bucket you pour your content into – and projects are sub-buckets from that.
Seems that you’re doing this a bit backwards, but there’s probably not a huge penalty in doing so because you can link multiple events to a project without penalty.
But arranging things this way DOES provide a bit of a challenge, IMO.
Metadata (including keywords, editing decisions and corrections) flow FROM import INTO events then INTO projects. There simply isn’t a very robust flow the other way. So while there’s no functional reason NOT to create multple events and link them to a single project – I’m not sure you’re gaining anything by creating mutliple events that you can’t do by creating ONE event and using multiple keywords and keyword collections to do any sorting or separating you need.
The big change in X compared to all other editors is how it uses the database and keywords rather than the finder and folders as the central organizing principle of the software.
I’d recommend you explore that. As you learn it better, think about how you might do what you want to do using keywords, rather than thinking of the Event browser as a construction of storages spaces or folders. That view might be too limiting in the long run.
Good luck.
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