What happened to Copy Project and Referenced Events in 10.1?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Dustin Bowser] “Yes, duping every clip in the event is exactly what I’m looking for. That is my point. “

So, even if your Project has one clip in it from an Event, and that Event has 100s of clips, you want FCPX to copy those 100s of clips all for that one clip in the Project?

Have you tried an XML export yet? It will get you want you want. Just import it in to a new Library. If you import to an existing Library, it will get messy. You will then have to reconnect media to the media on your external drive.

[Dustin Bowser] “For instance — Each Event right now has a keyword collection called ‘Synced’ to indicated the clips that are synced multicam. As it is now, broken into Events, if I click that keyword collection I see only the synced clips for that shoot, which is what I want.

If I’m adding ‘synced’ to every synced clip, when I click the ‘synced’ keyword collection, I’m going to be seeing every synced clip from the whole shoot. Not what I want. I want my keywords specific to which part of the shoot its a part of. That is part of the problem with Keywords as they’re currently implemented, if you’ve used a keyword, then if you want to apply that keyword to something else they are going to live together whether you like it or not.”

The only place they live together is on the clip itself, not in each collection. You can also select multiple keywords and display all of those together.

That’s what I like about keywords, they can separate or bring together. In your case you simply add a date or another modifier like “8_14_Synced”. You can then start to add Smart collections which can bring together ALL of your synced clips in one place, or all clips that have “8_14” or you can add text modifiers to include or exclude. In my eyes, it’s much more powerful as you can sort everything in multiple ways instead of just by shoot date (there’s also a metadata field to sort by date)..

[Dustin Bowser] “What’s nice about folders is that what you put in there is what there is, and what you take out is what there is, and you get to decide what to name it and where it goes in the hierarchy.”

Sorry, I’m having trouble following that one.

[Dustin Bowser] “Keywords collect things in nice ways sometimes, but sometimes I don’t want them collected that way, as is my case with this project. Does that make sense why I would have things in Events as I do?”

I can see why you do it the way you do it. It’s how every other NLE structures things in bins. The problem for me is that it cuts off footage by Event and I find it less flexible and less powerful.

If you need to find out which Events are in your Project, single click on the Project in the Browser (or hit option-shift-f to reveal the Project in the Browser). In the “Share” tab, find the “Tags” field you type ‘Events’ and it should give you a little blue Events pill. It should look something like this:

Now choose Share > Master File, and in the export window, it will list all of the Events associated with that Project.

Jeremy