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Trying to consolidate work done on Duplicate Events
I have my Events duplicated on my main edit machine and on an external that I edit with my laptop. I did a bunch of logging work on my laptop, marking clips and making keyword collections and whatnot. I want to bring all of that work over to my main machine, but I don’t want to move or copy any media, because it’s already duplicated and there. What I tried doing was copying over the currentversion.fcpevent file and overwriting it on my main machine. That worked insofar as it brought over all of the logging work, but now all of the Media is saying “Missing File” and when I try select the files and do a Relink, it won’t let me, because it’s not registering them as missing in the Relink dialogue.
What is the cleanest/easiest way to shuffle this kind of work back and forth?
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export event as xml did not work ?
Patrice Freymond
Editor Certified Trainer FCP7/X
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Is your media external or managed in the libraries?
If managed, open the library on your external hard drive and consolidate the media out of the library (select the library in the Browser and choose File > Consolidate Library Files) and choose a destination. Then follow the next steps
If media is already external:
Mount the external drive on your main machine and open the library. Then open the library on your main machine.
Drag the Event(s) from the external library to the main machine library. It will ask if you want to include Proxy or optimized media. You probably don’t. Quit FCPX and eject the external hard drive.
Open FCPX. If things are offline, relink the media on your main machine and then chose to Merge the Events (shift click the Events and chose File > Merge Events).
You can try this is a test first, or duplicate your Library so you have a backup in case something happens that you don’t want to happen.
Jeremy
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It’s not allowing me to relink files that are offline. When I select the files and choose Relink Media, no files show up in the list dialogue that pops up, and it doesn’t give me the ability to click on anything. I know all the files are offline because in the viewer there is a big red Missing File image.
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and when I imported the Event XML, all of those files have the same “Missing Files” warning, and won’t allow me to relink as well.
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Is your media external (outside of the library) or managed (inside of the library)?
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Both Events are managed, all of the media is inside the Folder Structure that FCPX builds. One is an exact duplicate of the event, on an external drive, just with “_EXTERAL” appended on the end of them name.
The work that I’m trying to export is from the “_EXTERNAL” event, and when imported into my “INTERNAL” drive, all of the media is missing. I’ve also trying choosing Consolidate Event, and it says all the media is there, there is no need to consolidate, but yet the files remain missing.
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I’m also just now trying to edit a Multicam Clip from my External Drive, onto a Sequence that is home on my Internal drive. I get a warning that says I’m editing between Libraries and it’s going to copy the file. I say OK, and that clip says ‘File Missing’ in the browser, even though I just watched it, but it’s playing back from my External Drive.
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What version of fcpx? Are you on Pre 10.1?
If so, my instructions won’t work.
What is your source footage?
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I’m on 10.1
My source footage is 5D footage, with Optimized and Proxy media created.
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Is the original media managed as well?
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