saving FCP project self contained

[David Roth weiss]

[alex stevenson] “I want to export the project , in it’s entirety, with the all the different video and audio tracks, so that I can work on it later on, from a different computer.”

The proper professional terminology that we all use and understand is “archiving the project” to a hard drive. Saving and exporting are entirely different and hence the confusion all around.

The best way to achieve your goal is to the “copy” function of the FCP Media Manager. It copies all or some files (determined by the user) from a project into a directory on a hard drive, and creates a new project file that it also copies to that location on the hard drive. You should read about it in the FCP manual, then return here for additional assistance if you need it.

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[Walter Biscardi]

This is easily done with the Media Manager Tool.

Open your final timeline.

Now go File > Media Manager

In the window that pops up, choose the Copy option which will copy all your media to a new drive.

You can decided to “Delete all unused media.” If you choose this option then Media Manager will ignore all media that is not being used in that final timeline.

Then at the bottom of that window there is the “Browse” button. Click that and select a destination for all the media to be copied to.

Now start the Media Manager process and you’ll be prompted for a new Project Name.

Enter the name and all your media is now copied and you can open your timeline for editing later.

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[Alex Stevenson]

Thanks you thank you thank you,

I have it worked out.

All for a bit of terminology “archiving!” I’man archivist now!

thanks again

Alex

[Steve Traut]

Let me throw one more wrinkle into this thread… Motion project files being used in the FCP project that is being archived.

I’ve found that it won’t copy any of the Motion assets being used by the project, just the .motn file by itself.

So the question is… is there any good (read as automated) way to do this? Or do you have to manually go through every Motion file, open (with the old/original assets online), Save as, and choose collect assets, and click save?

It just feels like someone had to have come up with a solution by now… but I can’t find it if they did.

We are using FCP7 on Leopard.

Thanks for any help or suggestions!
-Steve

[Stephen Cornish]

I have done this but it is now exporting my favorite filter effects and says they do not exist, how can I export these as well? I am already losing my hair, now I am tearing it out as well!