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Transferring FCP X Projects
I have recently edited a project, and have copied the Events Folders, and the Project Folder to work on another computer. All this was done correctly within FCP X, as I have watched tutorials on doing this. HOWEVER—on my home computer, when I worked on this project, I created custom effects, which Motion 5 lets us do so amazingly….but those effects remain on my home computer. Does anyone know of a way to transfer those effects without having to go into the library and find the source etc. I’m just hoping Apple will make an easier way to do this….because now the project is looking for the missing effect and can’t edit until I copy this effect. Ugh!! that’s tedious!
Help if you know of a way.
Thanks!
Kim in Tulsa -
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I think the custom effects live in your user -> movies folder, so you might have to copy them separately.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor -
Thanks for the answer. I hope Apple makes a way that it will grab the effects when copying projects or events to another drive. But until then, will have to copy the effects.
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[Kim Oakley] “I hope Apple makes a way that it will grab the effects when copying projects or events to another drive. But until then, will have to copy the effects.”
If you haven’t found them, they’re all in the “Motion Templates” folder in your “Movies” folder. This isn’t new BTW… In FCP 7 (and all other NLE’s as far as I know) If you didn’t have a plug in used in a sequence installed, you’d need to install it on your current system. My solution is to use Drop Box and copy the templates folder to it every time I add something new. It’s EZ to just replace the whole folder on my other machines and everything is always there. 🙂
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Thanks Michael…yes that’s where they are. 🙂
Kim
Editor in Tulsa
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