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Relinking in X
I just dodged a serious bullet, I think.
When I opened up my project all my clips showed missing. This is an audio only project. When I went to relink I got the message that my audio source and channel counts were different. Of course nothing had changed since the day before regarding the audio clips. Because nothing has changed I’m confused by the message. Does audio source and channel counts mean something different than what I think they mean? The way I’ve chosen to organize is to leave my original media on an external drive and create aliases for the Final Cut Events Folder. Would that have anything to do with the message?
So the happy ending is that when I checked my Final Cut Events folder all the aliases were gone, BUT Time Machine had backed them up so I was able to reload them and everything linked.
But what about this re-linking stuff. Is it that FCPX would not recreate the aliases as part of the relinking?
thanks for any thoughts
mark
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In this situation, instead of using FCPX to relink, I would have just dragged the original files from finder to the event. I’m also curious as to why all your aliases would be missing – I think that’s something worth investigating. I prefer to store a copy of the source in my event folder so I have never encountered that.
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Well I suspect the aliases went missing because I forced quit in the middle of an inadvertent operation that I didn’t know the outcome of. The beach ball was spinning and the signs said danger.
So just to be clear – your solution would have been to drag the original files to the event icon within FCPX. And that would have relinked all the projects (timelines) as well?
Excuse me if I’m restating the obvious but X is a new animal with new terminology. Your working methodology is to have two copies of each file; one in your event folder and one elsewhere?
thanks
mark
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If all works as intended, dragging source clips into an event will repair all the clip connections, including in projects.
And yes you’re correct, I keep two copies of the original media. If I run out of space, I can safely delete the media in the event folder from the finder and always restore via the method above.
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You can drag them in (or reimport) and rebuild the alias files.
When you drag you should see a little “bent arrow” icon of you are going to simply alias the media.
If you hold option, the icon will change to a “plus sign”.
I wi confirm this as I’m away from fcpx at the exact moment.
You don’t have to copy the media into the Event if you don’t have to.
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I can’t show this with screengrabs as the cursor gets blocked out.
Simply drag your file from the finder on to the Event, and if there’s a curved arrow, the FCPX will rebuild the alias an relink the file
If you hold option, there’s a green dot with a plus sign (the same icon used to when you copy files in the Finder by option dragging) and that will copy the media in to the Event.
Hope that helps.
Jeremy
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Yes, thank you Loren and Jeremy. All of these insights and methodologies are very helpful.
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