[John Flores]

Funny, a lot of the software that I use these days does autosaves, so much so that when I use a program that still requires me to save I have to remind myself to do so.

Google Docs has excellent autosave and history features. It saves whenever you make changes, and you can quickly go through the history, review and older version, and restore if you want to.

I’d be happy if FCPX evolved to do the same.

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[John Flores]

The R4 with 4x 2TB drives is working fine for me, even the 5400RPM WD Green drives I’m using. I’m also editing 1080p AVCHD on a MBP (2011 2.2 quad core i7). Speed is fine except for rendering. I’m maxed out on RAM (8Mb) so my only option may be to create a rendering farm…

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[John Flores]

Question about you transfer of 1.6tb of clips and such – did you do within FCPX or in Finder?

I just upgraded my Promise R4 Thunderbolt RAID from 1TB drives to 2TB drives. As part of that, I backed up the old data 2 ways:

1 – Making copies within FCPX
2 – Making copies within Finder

Method 1 resulted in the (fcp1) issue – because I had Events used in more than one Project. Since the transfer, I’ve used the copies that I created via the Finder and placed them in the rebuilt RAID with the same volume name, and the seem to work fine. Mind you, I haven’t dug into all of the Events and Projects to see if the links and references are still intact, but at least I’m not dealing with (fcp1) issues.

I also read somewhere that if want to take a drive “offline” so that FCPX doesn’t see the Projects or Events on that drive (i.e., a backup drive), simply rename the “Final Cut Events” and “Final Cut Projects”. This leads me to believe that FCPX final management is relatively dumb, i.e., all metadata (keywords, favorites, etc…) are stored in the CurrentVersion.fcpevent stored in each Event folder, not in some other database hidden/stored somewhere else on the system.

I also just tried reverting to a prior version of a project by pulling the older “CurrentVersion.fcpproject” from Time Machine. That seems to work fine as well.

So my current theory is that you’ll be ok as long as you keep volume names, folder names and paths consistent, you can move stuff around in the Finder and be ok. What you can’t do without risk in the Finder is things like renaming folders, changing the paths between folders and events, etc…

Let me know how things work out Greg. Sounds like an interesting project.

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