[Dave Smith]

So i think this problem i had was because the library for my archive was set to keep files on the working drive… my oversight then. Could have sworn I had this set correctly but i guess not. Thanks for the help.

[Dave Smith]

Thanks for the help… maybe i can help you. The problem you’re having “On my system the move menu option is greyed out.” could be a result of trying to move the last Event out of a Library… Final Cut won’t let you do that. You have to create a second Event so that there is at least one Event left in the Library before the File > Move becomes available. =]

I’m testing my issue using File > Move instead of drag/drop like i did the first time… fingers crossed.

[Dave Smith]

Yep ok, i’ll try those suggestions. Thanks!

[Dave Smith]

I figured it out by doing nothing different that i could tell. I literally just kept going back and adjusting the orientation for each clip until i made it to the last one without any others being affected and exported immediately. Great, hopefully I can reproduce that in the future. Now to figure out why the resolution is brutal even at 4k.

[Dave Smith]

Ok this is confusing. What I have seen is the inability to use a clip from a project in one event… in another project in another event (in the same library) without ‘copying’ the clip to the new event. I think I have to re-read your post a few times to be sure I’m understanding correctly. Unless… I am correct, and you are saying that ‘copy’ process is just creating an alias to the original (in it’s original location). Hmmm, ok… that would be awesome, because it just means the only thing I have to do to solve this all is simply look at it differently / understand more clearly what is happening when it says ‘copy’. huh!! =]

[Dave Smith]

Great point…. not a fan of the bork. =]

[Dave Smith]

Seen.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Dave Smith]

Jeez… didn’t even think of that. Sometimes the brain makes things tooo complicated. =] . I’ll never really know which footage is going to be needed so it sounds like this would be the ultimate solution for all footage. And, now that I think of it… my other recent problem with audio seemingly being stripped from original footage on import would have one of the possible causes negated: the import copy process. Now I’ll have to figure out how to get all my footage out of these libraries to their own logical folder structure after the fact. Thanks man… much appreciated!

[Dave Smith]

Strangely, I’ve just found more footage from a different shoot on a different day using the same method entirely that also plays no audio, shows no audio in the Inspector (neither an speaker icon at top or an audio configuration panel at all) when the clip is selected in the timeline. BUT… when I ‘Reveal in Finder’ the ‘Final Cut Original Media’ folder and play the file in Quicktime there IS audio.

I so wish the other files I opened this thread with had audio.

Can anyone confirm/deny if the file in a libary’s ‘Final Cut Original Media’ folder are in fact exact copies of the original files? Or does clicking, for example, the ‘Remove silent audio channels’ actually remove channels (possibly in error) during import?

Also,,, it seems i can only post here by going to someone else’s reply in my email and hitting ‘reply to this message’… I can’t find a Reply button when I just log into creativecow.net directly.

[Dave Smith]

Yes, you’ve got it.

I just bought ReclaimMe Data Recovery software in hopes something is salvageable from the SD card or the raid 1 Lacie. The path the data took was…

SD card > Lacie Rugged Raid 1 USB-C drive > Import (copy) to FCPX library

After moving the data from the SD to the Lacie drive and confirmed all was good (opened the files in quicktime), I deleted/formatted the cards and put them back in the camera.

Days later I imported (copy) from the Lacie to the FCPX library. I “saw” the footage in FCP (but did not listen) and deleted the footage from the Lacie. Bad move.

With all my proxy/optimized files generated, and with the ‘originals’ in the final cut library, I thought I was safe. It appears now the FCP library ‘originals’ aren’t necessarily copies of the originals! At least thats what I think I’m seeing… unless I’m completely wrong about the actual original footage from the SD card having audio recorded. I think I would have noticed at some point long before getting to dropping clips into the timeline that everything was silent. I guess I’m blaming it potentially on the import process because that was the last thing that happened to the ‘original’ files from the Lacie.