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why does “reveal in finder” show the shortcut?
I don’t understand the function of the reveal in finder function in FCPX showing a shortcut. Why would you ever want to see the shortcut. The reason I need to see it finder is to manipulate THAT file…not a reference of it.
Any good explanation?
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That’s they way fcpx handles media when it’s not copying to the event folder. It creates a shortcut. So to fcpx that shortcut is the media. It’s only to the os that the true location of the media is known.
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OK…too much to ask for a hard link…like a shortcut called:
“Reveal in finder…actually” 🙂
being sarcastic…I guess it’s asking too much for the company who makes the app to talk to the OS made by the same company?
I’m not a programmer…but this seems like a no-brainer.
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Wasn’t making excuses just telling you why. If you want reveal in finder to reveal the media let fcpx copy the media to the events folder.
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haha…sorry, I’m just feeling punchy tonight…new things scare me 🙂
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It’s kind of known bug at Apple. Or better the missing “Open in Editor” is the known bug. So eventually one of the next versions will fix that.
And yes, I do hate this behavior as well.
Andreas
Spherico
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“Reveal in Finder” works that way throughout the operating system. It is not specific to FCP X or any other program. It is following the path to the file step by step. If the file is in the event it goes directly to it. If it is not it goes to the first step (the event) which then shows the alias to the file. Right click on the alias and hit “show original” to see the original file, “open” to open in the default program for that file type or “open with” to choose a program to open it with. You can also do a “quicklook” which I find very handy in a lot of instances.
NT
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For what it’s worth, when you’ve got the shortcut under your cursor, double-clicking still opens the original file.
The way FCPX works nowadays, you’re probably going to need to save a copy of whatever you’re working on and re-import the new version, but opening the shortcut works just like opening the original.
What’s the problem?
We still need an “open in editor” workflow to allow us to alter files that are already in our projects, and have the changes trickle through the edits.
I was very happily able to do that with psd files on 10.0.2, but they screwed up the psd process and I now keep a layered copy for editing and a flat copy for importing.
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