James Ewart
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I’m not sure it really bothers me. I like being able to keep things separate and nice and tidy. As for having an Event with all your projects in it … that would confuse me.
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“I think Jeremy mentioned this once, but it seems like Libraries are redundant. They really have no need to exist”
I think Libraries are a really useful way of keeping things organised. As Bret suggests, one library per job or client. I love that option. It suits my OCD very nicely.
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“I basically have been working with 2 events in my library. One called Media and one called Sequences. The Media event has all my keywords, which I use in some ways like bins.”
That’s kind of making it work the “old” way isn’t it? Not that there is anything wrong with that. I actually like having the projects in my Events. It makes them easier to find if they are ‘next door neighbours’.
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even with External Media it seems to give the option of copying original media if you want it to which answers the question i think.
a bit of trial and error yet I think.
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probably a mirage but following a Ripple tutorial which I am watching for the third time.
Maybe I am confused and they are talking about different Libraries on the same drive having the same clips but sharing them by hard links though some kind of wizardry.
sorry if I have confused
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Gotcha thanks.
Personally I will never (if I can avoid it) have a Project or and Event containing actual clips and sym link clips.
I think one way or the other is the way to go for simplicity.
I am finding all this a bit of a thing to get my ever demising brain cells around
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And this might be a bit of a tangent but if you copy an event to another Event in the same Library both events will contain original clips but will not take up any more space…weird.
just don’t know how you tell FCPX to copy original clips rather than sym links if the clips in the Event are already Sym links?
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Problem 2 means you must have left a whole bunch of Gap at the end of your clip. Nothing else would explain that as far as I can tell. That could be also the cause of problem 1. Did you have loads of clips in the timeline and shift delete it all leaving lots of Gap/(slug) at the end of the timeline?
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You can make an Event containing all your projects in that Library?
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Okay. Getting there.
Just wondering if you copy an Event containing just Sym Links to a new library can you ask it to copy the actual files rather than just the sym links?
or is it all dependent on how you imported the media in the first instance?