Bret Williams
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That would be my first suggestion.
I’d also get a $15 USB 3 hub on Amazon so you don’t have to reach around back to plug in portable drives, iPhones, thumb drives, etc. Also a cheap usb3 to esata adapter plus a FW800 adapter. That’s my only annoyance with the 2 TB ports- when a client brings a FW800 drive I have to unplug the BMD Ultrastudio express. But it’s not that bad. I have 1 TB driving the Pegasus, and the second computer monitor is daisy chained to that.
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Wouldn’t a better solution be to get an actual video monitoring device? The HDMI is just an extended desktop that FCP has the ability to utilize. It still isn’t something you’d use for color critical situations. The gamma is a bit off in my experience as well.
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You know, I recently did a random test of the process before writing a post, and found the same thing. I was having to relink EVERYTHING. Something has changed. The files in my case were a mixture of external and internal (but to a backup they’re all external – either in a folder or in the “corrupt”(in your case) package).
It is supposed to consolidate package files into the new library when opened, via hard links so it doesn’t take up any extra space. The previous few tests I did with the release of 10.1 were perfect. I think something may have broken at some point. At least for some situations. Or my system.
Currently I’m looking at a deeper test and when I try to restore a healthy project I’m working on, with a mixture of internal and external files, absolutely nothing is relinked from a backup from yesterday minus two or 3 mp3 sfx files. Many of the project files are simply prores files rendered out from Motion or AE that are external. Nothing was even optimized or proxied. To relink the external files are easy enough, but so many are internal and are still living in the package, and Apple doesn’t give you access to relink to the old package/library without a workaround.
Bottom line, this will save your butt in an emergency, but it’s broken. At least compared to how it worked a year ago. Or something is screwed up with my system. Only difference from a year ago being a clean install of Yosemite.
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I just had to do something similar with a paint brush motion path and the sketched paint stroke. In that case I used match move behavior and applied it to the brush with the geometry option.
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And quit orphaning audio. 🙂 I’ve yet to need to do that.
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Not bad at all. My duh.
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Nope. There is no save dialog. The timeline/project lives within the event. Russ’ point below is a good one. If you possibly right clicked on a clip and chose “open in timeline” then you could edit your video INSIDE a clip. Every media clip in FCP X is actually it’s own little sequence. And that’s what the open in timeline command is referring to. The main purpose is to adjust audio or add effects to a clip before you add it to your edit. Apple really should rename that function to “edit clip contents” or something better.
All you really need to do is play / scrub each of your clips and see if the edit is within one. Then it’s just a matter of copy and paste to get your edit out of the clip.
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Sorry I’m not in front of a system for specifics, but yes. However renders might go in the library mo matter what. But if you’re running out of drive space from renders you can delete those. You could also simply move the library itself to another drive.
But yes you can consolidate your media to another drive, you can leave media in place when you import. Capture scratch settings was a bit of a different beast as they were program sprlecific. Which was quite the error prone concept. If you didn’t manually pay attention you could capture and or render your files to another project or drive than intended.
In X, you can’t access media from another library like media in another project in 7. Media must be in the library you’re working in. Even if it’s just an alias to external media. And there are quite a number of safeguards to keep another library from accidentally mismanaging your library. Like when you consolidate footage INTO your library, it copies because another library could be accessing that same externL media. But when you consolidate media OUT of your library it moves the files because no other library could have had access to the media within your library. Nothings perfect of course. Someone can always wreak havoc in the finder.
I don’t have the links in front of me but they’re some great links to articles about the 10.1.x media management posted here daily. Maybe someone can share those. Xs media management requires less knowledge to use on a basic level as it will take care of itself. But as you’ve found when you need to get into some more advanced features, just like In legacy, you have to know your stuff.
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If you go to the library inspector all should be clear. But essentially, pick a drive to start putting your optimized/proxies and renders etc on. If your adding more video assets, they be optimized to that folder. And when importing media you can of course choose to just “leave in place” so if you aren’t optimizing or making proxies, the media lives in whatever drive you import it from. Only aliases are created in the library drive. If you want to move media to a different drive you can use the consolidate function.
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Are you sure you didn’t create the project timeline in another library? Open all your recent libraries and highlight each one. Scroll to the top where the projects are shown and check them out. Also restore older backups and see if you find your project. You can’t “edit in an event without creating a project” as you worried in the original post. Dragging media to the empty timeline would create a project. Project exist in events. There is no such thing as an event timeline. A common way to work is to create a library for each video. Usually with just one event since keywording only works across a single event. The projects live in the event. Generally a project for each version or a project for each variant of the video. But everyone works differently and you’re free to organize however you like. A library per client, per year, per subject, whatever works. For me, I do all that at the finder level. I have a folder for each client and a separate library for each video/job Indonfor them. Consolidating media for a completed job is much cleaner, simpler and contained this way.
I’m thinking your issue is user error if you’re not finding the sequence in the backups because if your library had somehow been corrupted, those backups would still be fine. Since they’re empty too, I think your timeline is just somewhere else.
Perhaps someone else has some insight?