[Dustin Bowser]

I have 30 Events, all related to the same project — each one is a shoot day of a feature, and needs to be kept separate as such, but all need to be available during the edit. Some of these events are consolidated all together, some refer to linked media.

Some projects have links to clips that came off of an External Drive, and they are retaining their links to the External drive, though the media is available within the Event on the Internal Drive and I can’t get it to relink.

All I’m trying to do is have a copy of my project on a main Edit Bay, and a copy of some events on an External drive, and be able to swap the work of the logging in the Browser, and also editing and Selects in Projects to pass back and forth, but obviously have the Media that it’s referencing is local to the machine it’s a part of. In my attempt to do this, now I have duplicates of stuff here, and things referencing stuff there, and it’s all just a giant mess thanks to FCPX’s very confusing and frustrating media management and relinking system.

All of the footage is 5D. I need the original media because I need the raw files from the camera, I need Optimized media because H264s obviously don’t play down well, so the ProRes Optimized files are my High Quality Media, and the Proxy media is for editing, because much of this is multi cam, so without proxies it’s not possible to edit smoothly.

How can I clean this all up? This is such a mess and such a waste of time, so frustrating.

[Dustin Bowser]

Also what’s interesting, some of the clips that are offline, if I go to the info Tab in the inspector, it says that the Original, Optimized, and Proxy media are all available, and if I click the Reveal in Finder button, it will pull up the clip in the finder, but in FCPX it’s giving me a red “Missing Files’ Image, but it doesn’t say Missing File or Missing Proxy, it’s just the Red Image.

Also in case it’s of relevance, a lot of the clips have CoreMelt Lock & Load applied to them. I’ve tried both having the plugin installed, and uninstalling it to see if that was the issue, but it isn’t acting right either way.

[Dustin Bowser]

This whole project is a complete mess now, with certain things linked every which way. What would be the best way to completely start over, leaving the Events just as they are, but linking to the Original Media in a NOT managed FOOTAGE folder, and have the Optimized Media and Proxy Media inside the managed folder, and then have all of the projects relink freshly back to these events?

There are many events, and many projects, so I’m hoping there is a way to kind of do this in one foul swoop rather than project by project.

I’m just looking for a way to get freshly back to a place where I can work. I’ve wasted two whole days on this media management insanity, and with a quickly approaching deadline this is making me more frustrated with this program than ever.

[Dustin Bowser]

The Library is 1.6 TB. I can drag files back and forth between the drives in the finder if that’s what you mean.

[Dustin Bowser]

It seems that every project in this library is showing up with media offline, and just beach balls when I try to load it.

It’ is many projects.

Is there any way to just have all of the databases rebuilt for the events and the projects that things will relink within the library. What’s crazy is that all of the media is packaged up nicely in the library with it, so why I’m having this issue I don’t understand..

[Dustin Bowser]

What can I do to get past the “Loading Project into Timeline Dialogue”? I can’t even get into my project.

[Dustin Bowser]

Regarding the offline media — When I attempt to relink files, in the Relink dialogue, I don’t know how I’m supposed to connect back up to the media inside the Library. The Finder dialogue that comes up doesn’t allow me to go inside the Library itself, so it just says it can’t find the media, even thought I know it’s in the there.

I also can’t find in 10.1 where the “Modify Event Reference” dialogue is, which used to be in the Inspector in the Project View, so I can attempt that as well.

I’m excited to actually start editing one of these days, after the several days of wasted media management time…

[Dustin Bowser]

If I have done editing of the footage in various “projects” (Sequences), and it relates to my INTERNAL Event, then when I drag in a duplicate copy from the EXTERNAL drive, is it not going to lose the link to the footage in the sequence, and give me a “Missing Event” warning?

Also, is there not a way to just replace a file and have the metadata update? I’d like to avoid having to make copies of these events each time I’m trying to merge them together. Doesn’t that just risk a whole bunch of stuff constantly going offline and having to re-connect?

I’m having a hard time understanding how this isn’t more straightforward. I can’t imagine someone who isn’t actually computer savvy figuring this out at all.

[Dustin Bowser]

Yeah, I’d like to use External Media ideally, because all of my footage is also in a giant Folder called “Footage” that maintains the original folder structure off of the 5D.

I’d like to keep it separate, because there is something I don’t trust about letting FCPX have every piece of the footage bundled up in it’s little proprietary structure.
But because of this, I have my footage duplicated unnecessarily. I ended up using “Managed Media” after I was tired of being exasperated so many times when copying an Event over to my External Drive, being out and about and trying to pull it up only to see that many things are offline, audio and whatnot….so I just started having it copy over everything so that it would be bundled up.

Currently, my project is one giant mess of certain events managed, certain not, certain consolidated, etc…..

What would be the best way to clean this all up and get to some kind of simplified linking that opens up that wasted drive space, and is an easy way to work with a Main Machine and an edit laptop as a satellite helper with only parts of the project at any one time.

[Dustin Bowser]

I saved an Event XML of the “_EXTERNAL” Event, and tried to open it and point it to my Internal Library. It came in with all missing files.

The thing about sharing the Library is, the Project is actually huge, and many Events within the Library. I’m splitting off PER Event to work on sections on my laptop, hoping to then re-merge the work back into my master Project/Library.

I’ve still yet to figure out a smooth way to work this way..