Doug Eli
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renaming doesn’t change the dates. I just want the dates that FCPX shows to reflect the date of the footage for many reasons. I’m not sure why I have to defend that…
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I’ve been using FCP since v2 or 3, did try Premier for a time before, but hated it.
These tapes were all created back in the 70s and 80s. We recently began creating a digital archive and want to make that as accurate as possible. I’ve adjusted the dates on the original files to reflect the date the tape was produced. That when when imported into FCP it uses the correct date for the event.
May not be how most do it, but for our video needs as well as library archives (we have an official archivist and they have some specific needs) it works.
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The file creation date is not something you can edit in metadata. Same for Aperture and photos.
I prefer to be semantic about things…they should have real meaning. Whats the point of a data that is not what in incites. Date naming is a workaround (and is a good idea regardless) but when other aspects of the software provide conflicting information it leads to confusion and less meaningful data. Going back to by science background…garbage in, garbage out. Make sure your input is accurate and meaningful, even if it is a bit more work.
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I like accurate dates. Helps Keep all the file and event info meaningful. While I dOnt use sort by date much I do want it tO be accurate when I do.
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The organization i work fnor started in 1976 and produced a lot of promo videos and teaching videos. The founded passed away in the last year and it was sort of a big deal as he was highly regarded by his peers. So we want to offer some of his old teaching videos to people as well ad use bits from the early prOmos in our new materials to show how it all began.
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I used terminal. Works but is one at a time.
Btw…was changing date not name.
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both would be good but having the event date show the date it was shot is most important.
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The only reason to do this would be to keep them together. I see a few issues with that. One is data failure. Lose one drive, loose it all (however we all backup to at least 2 other drives….right?). The bigger concern is performance. The source media is on the same physical disk as the rendered media. That means slower performance. It has to read and write to the same disk to perform the task. Two drives means each can read/write much faster.
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I tested this. Set up an event on one drive, project on another. Quit FCPX, unmounted the event drive, fired up FCPX again, opened the project and got nice Red offline clips.
I then tried to move the event to a different drive, then delete the original. Again, FCPX ‘lost’ the media. When you move an event FCPX does not track this so projects are not aware that you moved it. Seems like a big deal to me. Where you put things is where they must stay. Moving is not an option (though there are some awkward workarounds). Similarly you cannot find out where the missing media is. There are no indications of what volume you need to find. Reconecting media is also not an option.
Right now the media management is very basic and sensitive to any changes that I would think are fairly common. I’d like to see it behave more like Aperture. Offline files are easy to look up the location of the source media, you can move media and it tracks where you put it.
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5 emails, 2 calls…no response. Are they even around?