Unreliable final cut pro X !

[Richard Herd]

Are you using compound clips and adding them to the project file?

[Youceff Kabal]

Hey i’m having the same issue. I just spent the last two hours slicing up these videos and now everything is lost. I suspect it’s because i chose to open the videos in the timeline using the right click menu instead of dragging them to the exact project I was working on but it still should’ve saved my progress within that new project, at least I hope so. Any idea as to how to recover the project?

[Christopher Kechichian]

hey richard, no i’m not using compound clips, i am importing my footage into the event library, and from there i choose what i want to put on my timeline.

[Christopher Kechichian]

Youcef, it seems we had the same issue except that i import them to the event library then to the timeline. I have version 10.0.2 i’m gonna check if there’s a newer version that hopefully will fix this issue. About the project I couldn’t find it anywhere and I repeated all the work with a big smile on my face because i have to.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Christopher Kechichian] “Youcef, it seems we had the same issue except that i import them to the event library then to the timeline. I have version 10.0.2 i’m gonna check if there’s a newer version that hopefully will fix this issue. About the project I couldn’t find it anywhere and I repeated all the work with a big smile on my face because i have to.”

This might be the problem.

If you guys aren’t working from a Project, but rather “Open in Timeline” then you are simply modifying clips in the event rather than a project.

I would try and find the original clip you are working on use the same open in timeline command, and select all and copy the contents

Then create a new Project in the project library and paste in the Project.

Jeremy

[Mark Morache]

I haven’t experienced the greyed out undo yet.

I make a point of stepping out of my project every hour or so, and duplicating my sequence without making a copy of the render files. I can always re-render, but if my edits disappear, I’m sunk. It doesn’t take very long, and it doesn’t take much drive space.

I imagine someone could write an automator script to create copies of the CurrentVersion.fcpproject file every ten minutes, so worst case scenerio an old project could be re-opened.

Not having a “vault” like FCP7, is one of the largest issues of this software. I don’t like playing Russian Roulette.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[John Godwin]

I used Liquid for several years, back when it was designed to compete with Avid, before they bought it (and still think it was far, far ahead of it’s time). It had autosave, with the option to save a duplicate project sans media. It took a little while (a couple of software versions) but after they got the bugs out it became completely reliable, solid as a rock. I expect FCPX to do the same, hopefully soon.

You know, I have to assume that writing top quality bug free software must be a little harder than people assume. Otherwise it would all be, well, top quality and bug free.

Best,
John

[Craig Seeman]

Just thought I’d interject, I believe FCP5 or maybe it was FCP4 also had an autosave bug that would result in an eventual loss of all edits beyond the last autosave when it failed. Make sure you’re on 10.0.2. BTW I’m not sure if being on 10.6.8 vs 10.7.2 makes a difference but I’m not secure about 10.7.2 myself.

[Timothy Mather]

Hey all

I’m having a very similar realization about autosave…lost an entire project. Event is still intact, metadata and all, and project is just as empty and pristine as the moment I created the project…minus the 15 hours of cuts and effects work. So to be clear, the event and project exist, just no edits.

Out of curiousity, if autosave is not working, then what is the solution? Just keep closing and reopening FCP until the undo button isn’t greyed out? Then keep working from there?

Yours in total frustration

T

[Steve Connor]

[Timothy Mather] “Out of curiousity, if autosave is not working, then what is the solution? Just keep closing and reopening FCP until the undo button isn’t greyed out? Then keep working from there?
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I’ve simply replaced my routine of doing a manual save in FCP7 every hour with checking the undo button every hour in FCPX while editing to make sure autosave is working.

Think of it as a “save”

“FCPX Agitator”