[Robin S. kurz]

Great post! Always interesting to see how others go about solving certain problems. 🙂 Thanks for taking the time!

[Robin S. kurz]

Well, then your FCP library clearly isn’t on that disk!

[Robin S. kurz]

[Tim Dutton] ” I think the one point that Robin didn’t get is that the proxy files don’t stay connected when any part of the file path changes name”

Probably because I can’t concur. Simply copying the library works just fine here. Especially if you copy it from within FCP, which you should anyway, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Morten Slemdal] “and set the store it on an external drive. Is that the best way”

It doesn’t matter whether you import them into Aperture first and then from the photos browser or into FCP first and then Aperture. If you do the latter, then your import settings decide on whether they’re copied to your FCP library or not.

[Robin S. kurz]

Any images you import from the photo browser are (fortunately) copied to your library.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “What NLE were you using in 1989?”

Erm… Avid? Or even go a few years later, circa 1991. Same thing. Name me any NLE that didn’t follow the same paradigm.

[Bret Williams] “What made you laugh about the Media100 demo?”

The clip starts at the exact point. The utterly convoluted and (by X standards) ridiculous timeline tango you had (and have) to go through for a simple edit change. For anyone to say that that was (and IS with various other NLEs today) somehow a “better” way of working compared to the magnetic timeline makes me laugh. Heartily, yes.

And why would anyone think that? At best only because of habit, nothing else. The whole “How dare you to tell me to change what I’m used to and had a hard enough time grasping to begin with!” thing.

[Robin S. kurz]

For me, the magnetic timeline works is the way it should have worked since 1989 when I started. Looking back at what it used to be like is mind-boggling to think I actually worked that way for so long and many NLEs *still* work that way! Stumbled across this a while back and it just made me laugh…

https://youtu.be/fk–SppBJhY?t=6m11s

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[Robin S. kurz]

Tell me about it. In fact exactly THAT (imho utterly ridiculous habit) is what ticked off loads of people around me about the magnetic timeline. Or should I say, they were miffed that X was showing them what a stupid idea it was and now they finally had to come up with a decent and intelligent workflow. Yeah. Stupid magnetic timeline! Ruining a perfectly lazy workflow! 😀

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “where they had organized all the media into timelines instead of bins.”

:-)))) Oh wow.

[Bret Williams] “Working from timelines is a hassle in X “

Which is why no one in their right mind would ever get the bizarre idea of even trying it. Not exactly sure how that could somehow be laid out as a fault of FCP. That’s like someone lamenting about “Driving a car without tires is a huge pain!” 😀

[Bret Williams] “But I can’t drag all the clips into a keyword collection either!”

Simply make a new library and drag whatever project you want over. Et violá, all the appertaining footage is in the event. (even all the keywords would copy over… if you had any)

[Robin S. kurz]

Camera icon = not fully imported i.e. aborted import
No icon = fully imported.

And the white bar will tell you if any PART of a clip was imported, it doesn’t necessarily mean the entire clip was imported. But then that’s not actually useful when coming from disk, only when from camera or SD, since in that case you don’t have a filmstrip view but rather only LIST (meaning no easy or immediate overview). So I prefer to use the icons in the event instead.