Shane Trowbridge
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I’m not sure I understand what the organize command does. I don’t want to do anything with that until I better understand what it does. Can you explain?
Shane
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It appears to have worked!
I moved over clips from a few of the events and they all kept their keywording. It still won’t let you move over duplicate clips (or different clips that happen to have the same name) but it’s a heck of a lot easier to find the needle on the hay stack using your technique.
Thanks for your help!
Shane
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I have all of my media on an external hard drive.
The events I want to merge contain 253GB of media. I have 2TB of available space left on the drive to work with.And everything is backed up on a secondary drive in case everything gets jacked up ; )
Shane
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Jeremy I like your idea of a super event. To answer your question since this has been an ongoing project I was a little sloppy in keeping my event titles consistent with numbering and titling. It’s tripped me up a few times since I often use the different events for different projects. Though I was a bit sloppy with creating the events I was very accurate with my keywording. So I thought I would go ahead and merge the events and streamline things a bit. Plus it’s just visually easier to look at one merged event within the finder instead of a huge long list of them.
I’ve not relied on smart collections for anything so I’m not worried about that. As long as I don’t lose my keywording I’m cool.
How do I go about creating the super event and “dragging” the media over. Am I just dragging all of the transcoded clips into the folder or do I have to drag all of the other event folders and info over too. How do I do that correctly?
Shane
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Bret you make a good point. Since this has been an ongoing project I was a little sloppy in keeping my event titles consistent with numbering and titling. It’s tripped me up a few times since I often use the different events for different projects. Though I was a bit sloppy with creating the events I was very accurate with my keywording. So I thought I would go ahead and merge the events and streamline things a bit. Plus it’s just visually easier to look at one merged event within the finder instead of a huge long list of them.
Shane
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actually nevermind. I just found it in the menu.
Thanks for your help everyone!
Shane
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How do you break apart compound clips now? I don’t see that option when right clicking on the compound clip
Shane
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phew, as an industry professional I have to admit that interlaced and progressive STILL confuse me. To be honest. I don’t know what I want. I thought I wanted 1080 60i to give me the best HD quality. So I assumed I would export an mp4 (h264) 1920×1080 at 59.94.
I didn’t even know 30i was a “thing” until I noticed it in FCPX. Can I not export a final master at 59.94? Maybe you can clarify the difference between 30i and 30p??
Shane
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so you are saying 30i and 60i are the same thing? I’ve never even heard of 30i until now. So it’s 60 interlaced fields? and 30 interlaces frames? Not sure I’m totally embracing the concept.
Ultimately I’m just trying to maintain the best HD quality.
Shane
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nope, and just to be sure that I didn’t, I created a test project and jumped the 60i clip in and sure enough it made it 30i again.
Shane