[Herman Lessey]

Jeremy,

Thanks a whole lot for the help! I figured it out. It seems I just needed some tutorials on media management. I was totally in old FCP mode… Even though it’s an Apple product, they made a totally new animal! I just needed to get my event and project files in the right place. I see that you don’t have to tool around outside FCP to handle your files. It’s all from a master Event and Project folder set up in your external drive. I appreciate all of the help!

[Herman Lessey]

Ok, I’ll check out this tutorial. Why should moving files in Finder corrupt my project? It just sounds stupid…

[Herman Lessey]

I believe I followed the way you should set up a project. I opened FCP which automatically sets up an event folder within my movie folder on my computer. Once I start uploading video, it would tell me to set up a project file by name. After the files were created, I moved them in Finder to my external drive.

The raw footage was uploaded from my camera into the “TEST” project. The Original media file has all the source video data. I can’t see why these “TEST” and “Sneaker” event files are mixed up. It looks like FCP overwrote the “TEST” event file with the “Sneaker” event file. The “TEST” file is opened in the event folder and the “Sneaker” project opens. It’s baffling to me!!

In the earlier versions of FCP, the program would alert you to save the project or warn you that you would overwrite a particular project with a particular filename. I can’t see why FCPX would lose my “TEST” event file like that. I want to think that the “TEST” project is somewhere buried but I have no idea where it could be.

I’m just frustrated…. This is the first major issue I’ve had with FCPX! I’m very disappointed!

[Herman Lessey]

“All I did was upload the media files so I could begin working on it later.”

What does this mean?

I uploaded the video files from my camera in order to set up the project. I saved it under the name and closed out of the program. I just wanted to have the source media organized to cut it up at a later date.

“Today, I opened the “TEST” project within the events folder but FCP opens with everything mixed up.”

How exactly Did you open the “TEST” project within the events folder? That doesn’t make sense.

Initially, the program opened with “Sneaker” source media in the event window. The “TEST” footage was on the timeline. I could scrub through the “TEST” footage I cut up but the event browser did not have the source media from that “TEST project available for me to use.

“FYI: I fiddled with it some more and every time I update something with the file, it changes. Now I’m in the “Sneaker” project and I made a slight change. Now every file (“TEST” and “SNEAKER”) has the changes. The older files seem to be updating every time I do something!! What?!?! HELP!”

Again, what exactly are you doing?

Sorry for being screwy. In my attempt in trying to locate the source files for “TEST”, it seems I adjusted something in the layout on FCP. Somehow I completely removed the “TEST” edited footage in the timeline. I tried closing the program out to see if it would revert back but it remains the same way I left it right before closing the program.

Here is a screenshot… This photo has “Project Library” in place of the timeline.

[Herman Lessey]

“By chance is your mask a shape layer? If that’s the case it won’t affect the fractal noise layer. Other effects can interfere as well (that’s why stacking order is important). For instance, a CC radial fast blur turned all the way up will eliminate a mask. Do you have any interfering effects on the same layer?”

If you mean if it’s a shape layer from the ellipse tool function, yes. I don’t have any effects that I know of. I created a layer solid and then added the fractal noise. Once that was done, I made a circle mask with the ellipse tool which as the fractal noise within the circle. It try to feather it but it won’t work. Actually, I’m following one of the video co-pilot tutorials. Wow, something so simple has become such an obstacle! Any help?!