Projects not scrubbing in the event

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bret Williams] “Correct. I don’t see how this differers from past function. Does it?”

I was hoping that the Library could function like the Events of yesterday without having to add yet another object in the UI.

[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “So you can’t have an Eventless library with clips in it.

A Library HAS to have an Event”

yep. I explain it in a rambling way towards the end of my little blog post…

blog-whoring link

🙂

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[Mathieu Ghekiere]

This whole new Library model is good but it will take some getting used to and we will have to think about how to organize updated older projects.

I’m looking at the new Ripple Training tutorials and there is a lot of good (and important!) information there.
Must-see for current FCPX users. They have even put out the first 3 movies out for free just because it’s so vital for excisting users.

But I’m wondering: you used to be able to put projects in a hierarchical folder structure.
Is something like this still possible?
Could you make a folder structure in the Event like you can do now (wherein you can put keyword collections) and put projects in there somewhere so you can have some kind of organization for people with a LOT of projects tied to a certain Event?

On an off topic note I have the feeling that we didn’t got the huge feature update a lot of us hoped for but let’s hope with the new foundations that the development team can focus on providing a lot of new features on a quick schedule again.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I’m looking at the new Ripple Training tutorials and there is a lot of good (and important!) information there. “

I noticed they have some excerpts out for free. They look very helpful and dive in to a lot more of the editing features than even the Apple website.

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “But I’m wondering: you used to be able to put projects in a hierarchical folder structure.
Is something like this still possible?”

From what I gathered here, you can still see Projects in the Finder, but you have to unpack the Library to get there. I don’t know if modifying the Package Contents with the Finder as you could the Project Library would screw anything up.

[Charlie Austin]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “But I’m wondering: you used to be able to put projects in a hierarchical folder structure.
Is something like this still possible?
Could you make a folder structure in the Event like you can do now (wherein you can put keyword collections) and put projects in there somewhere so you can have some kind of organization for people with a LOT of projects tied to a certain Event?”

Absolutely, just use Keyword Collections, check this out…

https://fcpxpert.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/new-window.png

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “From what I gathered here, you can still see Projects in the Finder, but you have to unpack the Library to get there. I don’t know if modifying the Package Contents with the Finder as you could the Project Library would screw anything up.
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You can, but I’d suggest extreme caution… As before, shuffling things at the Finder level can have unexpected consequences. I’d imagine more so now that everythings in a package

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Hi Charlie,

I don’t know what I’m supposed to see on your picture (I can view the picture but I think I’m missing something?)
But are you saying you can put Projects into Keyword collections now?
If so that would pretty much solve my question about organizing them.

Jeremy I meant seeing them organized in FCPX, I wouldn’t recommend opening packages either.

It seems with this new management that FCPX demands you to even work more from FCPX itself and with the package and the Hard Links system (see Ripple Training) shuts off more and more transparency in the Finder.

[Bret Williams]

They’re definitely trying to discourage messing around in the finder by making the library a launchable document. Already my current project looks more akin to a FCP 7 project. I have my project folder with all my photoshop files, AE files, audio files, and now, a nice singular little library file. So for the first time ever, it’s all in one place. Even in legacy there were render files and capture scratch files living somewhere else. You could put them anywhere but you’d have to remember to change the settings next project! They’ve really solved quite a few of those problems. I can now grab one folder and drop it on an external and know it’s all there. And by putting auto saves on the boot drive, I could also operate like legacy by having my small files on the boot drive, and the library on the external for safety.

[Bret Williams]

Here’s how I’ve got my current project setup. Previously the keyword collections in the “sequences” event were folders in the project library. Then I have another event for “Media” with keyword collections in it essentially working normally, kinda like bins. And the library file is akin to a legacy project. But it’s a system that could work many different ways for many different situations.

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Thanks Brett.

Having a library with the same name as you previous Event and then have the Event itself be renamed to Media and having another with sequences would seem like a great manner of organizing for the kind of work we do.