[Jeff Kirkland]

My desktop is currently on Mojave because I had issues with a couple of apps on Catalina but they’ve since been resolved so I’ll upgrade sometime soon, and everything else I own is on Catalina.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d suggest open the project in their computer and use media management to transfer the files to your hard drive. There can be so many linked files in different places that this is the only way to guarantee you have everything you need.

If you’re determined to use the finder then the project file will be “somefilename.fcpproject” and that plus any externally managed media is what you want to copy.

The files just named with a series of numbers sounds to me like you’re looking at the cache files and there’s little point copying those outside of fcp’s media management because you can’t reconnect to them manually.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

Your post was correct. You create a library for your project. Then you create events for Ariel footage, b-roll, whatever else. You can then use keywords to create other virtual folders via metadata. So if you have arial footage and b-roll of the same thing, they will end up in the same virtual folder without compromising how you organised the actual imported footage.

Hope that makes sense. Just got up and haven’t had that morning coffee yet

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I do this regularly for a couple of clients.

Assuming you added timecode as a generator or plugin to the timeline rather than just burning it in on the render, if you make a compound clip of the timeline and work with that, the original timeline’s timecode will continue to apply no matter how you cut it up, so you can always see on the screen that you’ve got the right segment in the right place.

From there, I just scrub the compound clip in the Browser, select the timecode as per the client’s instructions and edit it into a new timeline.

Once the edit is done you can either break the compound clip apart on the new timeline and delete the timecode or just enter the compound and temporarily disable it if you think you might need it to check things again.

Hope that made sense. It’s way early in the morning and I haven’t had my coffee yet.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I think it might be possible between FCPX and Avid at least, using Shot Notes X app. There was a Macbreak Studio episode on round-tripping metadata between FCPX and Avid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoaNnu_ytM&feature=emb_logo

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

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[Jeff Kirkland]

Haven’t used it in a while but as far as I’m aware, no – everything gets copied intto it’s library.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I use iShowU for screen recording but I’d think even the screen recorder built into macOS would do the job.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

I missed the CD part. I’ve always used Toast for audio CDs and never had an issue but I haven’t upgraded in a few years so maybe the newer version introduced some bugs?

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

How complicated a DVD do you need to make?

For just load and play, I tend to use FCPX or Motion to make the DVD. For actual authoring, including scripting for interactive menus etc, I haven’t found anything that’s still being supported that’s better than DVD Architect. It’s a Windows program but it’s cheap and works perfectly under an emulator on the Mac.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

[Jeff Kirkland]

As others have pointed out, you’ve sort of backed yourself into a corner with FCPX by approaching things the way you have. The number one bit of advice for anyone new to the app is to be careful about following non-fcpx tutorials. A lot of approaches, like that one, depend on tracks, which fcpx doesn’t have.

The FCPX equivalent of that tutorial would be to scrub through your clips in the browser window, mark in/out points and make favourites. Then just show favourites in the browser and you’re in pretty much the same place and ready to start editing.

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Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland