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video clips on different hard drives
Hi and help!
I am working on a family history DVD. I have footage on 4 different external hard drives. Is there a way to copy and paste the video clips to one external hard drive? I thought i could, but get the clips off line when i disconnect the original ex. drive.
Also,, does it slow down the process to have 4 drives?
I have the new FCS and also experienced long render times. I thought it was because I am doing this on a PowerBook G4. Thanks for the tips on another thread.
If i need to have all 4 drives, can i just go to Lacie and buy power cords for 2(they are lost)??
Thanks
Barbara -
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If you copy all the media files to one drive and do NOT change the file names in any way, You can reconnect the media after its been moved. When final cut sees the media off line and asks you, select reconnect. Generally when you click the search option in the reconnect files box, it will bring you to one of the files highlighted. Click choose. Most of the time it will grab all the offline files from that location and drop them down to the files located box below. Double check the files to connect box above and make sure there are no leftover files. If there are, click the search button again.
NOTE make sure that if the search single location box is checked that the location it is searching is the the drive you put all your media on, or just uncheck the box. It would also be a good idea to make a backup copy of your project file and keep all your original media on there original drives (disconnected from the computer)so that all can go back to the it was if something goes wrong.
Media manager can do some useful things as well, but I generally just use it to archive. Read about media manager in the FCP manual.
Shiloh
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[Barbara Johnson] “Is there a way to copy and paste the video clips to one external hard drive?”
Barbara,
Sure, you could can move the files manually in thge Browser and hope for the best, however, the proper way to do this job is to use Media Manager to copy the project with a new name and copy all the files to a single directory on a new hard drive. When you do the job properly with Media Manager the FCP database is updated automatically and no relinking is necessary. This is also safe, as your original project and media files are untouched. Once you test to insure the new project works properly and contains all your media then you can safely delete the old media off the old drives, or just take those drives offline and store as a backup.
David
“No job is worth doing more than once…”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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