[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “It would be a very simple fix (IMHO) to add a “manual searching” function that let you point to a place for it to start searching, like you can for individual files once you are in the library.”

Single click the library, hit file > relink files. Hit the locate all button, and point it at the top most folder or directory, (or even drive), and hit Choose. Fcpx verifies, then hit Relink Files.

You don’t have to wait, just keep clicking through the interface until you get to the verify stage.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tom Sefton] “This works perfectly with r3d to .mov”

Indeed it does. It’s the only one that works, and it might have to do with the red software “Apple workflow” component, but I’m not sure.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joe Marler] “I just imported several MXF files using “leave files in place”, shut down FCPX, renamed each file, moved each file to a new subfolder, then deleted the symlinks in the library which pointed to those files, and upon re-launching FCPX it automatically relinked them instantly and re-created the symlinks to the new locations and filenames.”

Sure but that doesn’t help when you need to link to transcoded material.

It’s not about linking to the same files, it’s about linking to different files with the same characteristics (audio channels, tc, length) but different file extensions.

So if do you the same test, but transcode those files mov or mp4 first, you will not get fcpx to automatically link to anything but the original media (whether it’s renamed or not).

Or, do an even easier test, Optimize the media and try to relink the MXF file to the folder of .movs created by FCPX automatically. It won’t happen, you will only be able to relink one by one pointing fcpx at the exact file you are trying to link to. And doing that with the FCPX interface is extremely time consuming. So FCPX can’t even link to the .mov media it creates from the master MXF files, which to me, makes exactly zero sense.

I cannot distribute the 50TBs of media on our server remotely and by staying at home (of which Chicago is on lockdown until at least the end of this month, and I would imagine it will get extended since the COVID infection numbers aren’t going down), but I could do it if we could use proxy files. The ability to relink from other file formats to other file formats would be most welcome. So while, yes, inode linking can work, it only works in a very specific use case.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Joe Marler] “Relinking in FCPX is both superb and terrible. Relink of regular media files on a single drive volume is superb – in fact it’s fully automatic.”

Depends on the format. R3d to mov? No prob.

Mov to mp4? Nope. Mxf to mov? Nope. Mxf to mp4? Nope. Mp4 to mxf? Nope. Mov to mxf? Nope.

Try it. Take an mxf file, make any file format you want with matching audio, and try to relink it, automatically. It won’t happen. But if you select the file one by one, fcpx will relink. So for a project with several thousand files, linking one by one is agony and far from automatic. Since fcpx will relink one by one and not automatically, this seems like a bug.

And as far as your sym link example, that works on some storage and not others.l, and yes it seems unique to fcpx.

Premiere allows you to search by other criteria, including media start and allows you to deselect criteria like file name and extension.

Fcpx is still much faster to work in though. I share all of Tom’s gripes with premiere, except format relinking. Premiere is better at this.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tom Sefton] “how on earth do you cope with the media re-link tool in Premiere; it just doesn’t work anywhere near as well as FCP. “

The “attach proxies” function in Premiere, though, is pretty killer.

All I want for quarantine is better format relinking in fcpx.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tom Sefton] “treacle”

trea·cle
/ˈtrēk(ə)l/

noun
noun: treacle; plural noun: treacles
1.
BRITISH
a thick, sticky dark syrup made from partly refined sugar; molasses.
2.
cloying sentimentality or flattery.
“enough of this treacle—let’s get back to business”

Just adding to my son’s e-learning for the day as my new job of teacher’s intern continues….

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Oliver Peters] “Apple took Avid’s restrictive managed media approach and simply made it worse. Rant over.
“

To bring it all back full circle…..

What do we want?

An update.

When do we want it?

Now-ish!

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Eric Santiago] “[Rainer Wirth] “why do you want to upgrade to catalina?
Is there any benefit?”

Some of us have no choice due to the current Mac purchased.
“

Precisely. If you get a new Mac, you are pretty much stuck with Catalina.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Open your timeline index.

Click on the Roles tab.

Check the Appropriate Role back on, it looks like you disabled it whatever Role was assigned to those clips.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “… mathematically, the next number in this series is 21, not 20.”

When I typed it, I saw that pattern too, and I was hoping no one would point it out.

But since this was noticed, I am glad it was you that pointed it out.

Hope you are yours are all good over there in NY.