Don Smith
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That’s the answer I was looking for Joh! Thank you.
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Eugeny, yes, you found the right path. Thank you. That path is different (but the same except for one fork in the road) than the path demo’ed in the Ripple Training tutorial.
I wondered, with the fork in the road called ‘Flexo’ if it was somehow a ‘flexible’ font listing making the enclosed fonts already available to Font Book. But I checked, and no. None of the FCPX fonts were listed in Font Book (I spot checked. Didn’t check every one) so I created a new FCPX Collection in Font Book and dragged over the FCPX fonts so that they are available to all apps via Font Book.
Once done I chose to list All fonts in Font Book and scanned through to see if there were now duplicates but I didn’t see any.
Thanks very much!
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Thank Ronny. I did that at your suggestion. It’s the first time I’ve ever sent feedback. The more I think about it, you’re right. It’s worthy of a feedback report.
The thing is, it seemed to be working whether I just moved the MXF files to a hard drive and imported from there or directly imported from the XDCAM disc reader. Final Cut Pro X controlled the reader just fine and the time it took was normal for the file sizes. Yet, I would get a visible clip that was less than a minute despite the file size seem way too big for such a short clip.
Thank you.
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Just yesterday FCPX was updated along with video components and MXF in all its forms is importable now.
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I’m going to fact check doing a clean install by running the process by you guys to see if I have it correct.
New 2013 Mac Pro. Time Machine with current backup.
I think the process will be to do a clean install and then restore apps, documents and settings from backup.
If I’m not right about this please tell me now.
Thank you.
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That explains it. Thank you for that. I won’t need it often and when I do I’ll just let the Mail App launch, complain about not finding its mail server, and drag the video from the Mail App new email window to a new Outlook email form. Not the end of the world and I appreciate you filling in my knowledge gap so I won’t wonder if I’m missing something.
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It wasn’t labeled Consolidate Out. It was that the Consolidate command used to have two choices to it. If you chose a location that wasn’t the Library you’re working in all media was moved to the new chosen location (a folder). Right now that command only gives you the option to Consolidate INTO the Library you are on.
For example you’re editing along and ingesting media and you realize that your media drive is practically full. You could consolidate OUT (Consolidate > Choose a location that is not the Library you are working in) to another drive and the original media along with (if you chose to include it) the Optimized media and Proxy media and free up disc space and keep editing. Your edit would continue to see its media even though it would now be located on another drive.
That remote choice is not in the Consolidate command anymore.
I once asked a friend for directions. He pointed and said “Do you see that green building there?” I said YES! He said (with faux frustration) “I was afraid of that. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH WHERE YOU WANT TO GO so GET IT COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MIND!”. Funny. But I’m reminded of that joke in this situation because now, the Consolidate menu selection doesn’t give you the option of an alternate location for your media. That can now be found in the new Inspector panel for the Library where you can Modify Settings and chose a new location for your media. But see where it says that only FUTURE media being brought it would go to the new location? I was afraid of that (said Andy). Get it completely out of your mind because it has nothing to do with where you want to go. 🙂 Andy pointed out that you go ahead and choose the new location for your media but THEN to bring existing media to the new location NOW choose Consolidate from that Inspector panel or from the File menu.
Thank you ANDY!
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I’ve long admired you for the genius you are Andy.
Weaker folk, like me, are stopped when the dialog tells you that only future imports will go to the new location. It takes a visionary like you to see beyond that and show that you can then Consolidate to the new location and have the same effect as the former Consolidate OUT.
Thank you very much for seeing further down the road.
Don Smith – NewsVideo.com
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What happens is that you can set a destination for FUTURE imports only. It does not disturb media already ingested.
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The Library wasn’t consolidated before being moved to another computer. If you right-click on your copy of the Library and select Show Package Contents > (project name) > Original Media and look at the icons and you see a hooked arrow in the lower left corner of any icon, then that is a reference file to the original media (media that’s not managed) and not the actual media. Unless you also moved the external, referenced media to the new computer then the copied Library (now away from the original computer) will be unable to re-link to media that is not there.
When you move a Library to another computer you must either Consolidate it first and then copy it to another drive or copy it first but while the copy is still connected to the first computer, consolidate the copy while it can still find the files on the first computer.
If you don’t consolidate then remember to also copy the media external to the Library to the drive that will walk out the door so that the copied Library will be able to find it later when not connected to the first computer.
If you consolidate, then before you disconnect the copy drive, show package contents of the copied Library > (project name) > Original Media and make sure no hooked-arrow icons are present. That will tell you that you have all your media inside the copied Library.
You should know that the latest Final Cut is great at relinking clips. Much improved since you only have to point to a hard drive and if that hard drive has your media anywhere then Final Cut will find it.
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