[Howard Neuthaler]

Thanks for your reply. The tripod has a fluid head and pan handle. Maybe the shakiness is just a product of the speed of the motion and the focal distance….

[Howard Neuthaler]

Yikes, I don’t use Premier…. Thanks anyway!

[Howard Neuthaler]

Thanks for your reply. My lens does not have IS.

[Howard Neuthaler]

OK, problem solved. It seemed to have been a permissions issue – I think CCC had somehow changed the permissions of the drive.

[Howard Neuthaler]

Well the solution I thought was great has now screwed me up entirely. FCPX now will not recognize the drive on which I have all of my events and projects, apparently because of the duplicates of those within my new backup folder. So I deleted the backup folder and all of its contents, emptied the trash, restarted, etc., and FCPX still does not recognize the drive. Can anyone help?!?!?! Thanks in advance.

[Howard Neuthaler]

Brian,

Thanks for this great information. I use Event Manager X, which moves projects and events between their regular folders and “Not In Use” folders in order to “declutter” the FCPX interface so it doesn’t load every project and event ever created. The downside of this is that it causes automated backup processes that backup these folders to copy large amounts of data whenever a project or event switches to or from a “Not In Use” folder.

To remedy this, based on your suggestion, I now have Carbon Copy Cloner do a nightly backup of my “Final Cut Events”, “Final Cut Events Not In Use”, “Final Cut Projects”, and “Final Cut Projects Not In Use” folders, excluding the subfolders you mention, to a new “Final Cut Files for Backup” folder. I backup this new folder, rather than the Projects, Events, and Not In Use folders, to my Time Machine volume and “the cloud”. (I keep my original media separately, and do not copy it into the FCPX event folders, so I do not have to backup any original media within those folders.)

Thanks again,
Howard