[Brandon Parigo]

I work pretty much in finder. FCPX I’m sure is powerful when it comes to organization but every time I do much of it I run into problems.

I copy all files from camera into an external work HD (then back up manually to my drive rack). Once that is done I create an event within FCPX but I create the event on the work drive that houses the media. When I create a project I also create that on the same drive. Doing this allows me to just unplug the drive and move the whole project to another computer to work on. Have had no problems with this set up.

For back up purposes I do duplicate projects inside FCPX but not the media/proxies/or whatever.

I also create ‘silent’ project and event folders on those drives and I manually move project and events into those folders to stop FCPX from seeing them. I have heard that this could cause errors but nothing has popped up for me yet.

If I need to move the project/event/files to another drive I just do so in finder and then relink in FCPX. That sometimes is a pain but it has worked ever since they introduced relinking.

My way of doing it is very barbarian and untrusting of FCPX but it is what has developed naturally for me.

[Brandon Parigo]

The easiest way “live switch” your four angles would be to sync all your clips via multicam. Load it onto your timeline and then switch the angles during playback.

How you have it, the best way to keep it all organized is to highlight all the footage of a certain type (medium for example), and make that footage into it’s own storyline (command G). It won’t fall down out of it’s own storyline. Just make sure instead of cutting and deleting clips in a storyline you make your edit points then replace with gap.

[Brandon Parigo]

Maybe they thought it was redundant since you can push to compressor and then select the portion you want exported. Why have it in both programs. Just a thought.

That was also my suggestion to the original poster. Have you tried to push it to compressor and trim out the end?

[Brandon Parigo]

To apply a transition to all clips, select all the clips then double click the transition you want to apply. This method works to put transitions on all clips but it also puts them on both ends of the clip. Not sure how to put them on just one end of each clip.

I’m not sure on changing them,but I imagine it would just change them on the clip. I’ll test that next time I open up fcpx

[Brandon Parigo]

Thanks Brendan. From reading your post it seems like it might work. I’ll give it a spin next time I fire up FCPX.