[Tony Sarafoski]

Jim, it’s not the intended way apple want you to use FCPX, but I certainly feel your pain, especially when wanting to cut long winded clips. We can only hope more options are implemented in future versions, but I wouldn’t go holding my breath.

I’m guessing you come from legacy and used this workflow a lot. What Apple now want you to do is use the event browser to mark favorites or keywords, and leave the timeline (project) for the story building.

I totally understand what your trying to do, as I find myself at times using the timeline to skim, blade & then reveal that clip in my event, so that i can mark it as a favorite, or add a keyword.

it’s taken me three versions before I started forcing myself to use FCPX the intended way. Though there has been advantages, there are times I have that little gremlin saying “I want my sequences back”.

[Tony Sarafoski]

Been using X since version 10.0 and have done the following work between 10 – 10.4

• Cut this pilot in about 5hrs https://vimeo.com/39737711
• A website intro, using AF, Motion for graphics, edit was all done in X https://vimeo.com/38404194
• One of many AMEX testimonial we have been working on, all done in X + Motion 5 https://vimeo.com/43089453
• Will be editing 12 webisodes in the next few weeks,

Had 8hrs to transcode, edit, upload for proofing, make adjustments & send final master to client, this to date was my biggest challenge in X https://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/tourism-australia-reaches-three-million-facebook-fans/story-e6frfhb6-1226377548245

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[Tony Sarafoski]

Are you saying you never made a backup copy of these files on another drive before any editing took place? Rule #1 BACKUP..!

Anyway not sure this will help. You need to make sure your no longer using that drive, the best option would be to shut that computer down, connect it to another Mac (using FW800), then try using a recovery app like DATA RESCUE 3 or something similar. No guarantee it will work, but I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of options at this stage.

[Tony Sarafoski]

I agree Jeremy, X have made it such a breeze to create ProRes 422’s and proxy’s. The fact that you can switch between the two within the app is amazing. The only thing they now have to give us is the ability to transfer or copy a “proxy” event so that it makes it easy to take your projects along with you while on road. Fingers crossed this comes in the next release 🙂

[Tony Sarafoski]

Awesome… In sure you’ll have a few hair pulling moments, but try stick with it, I can garuntee you won’t look back after a few edits 😉

Good luck & let us know if you come across any problems.

[Tony Sarafoski]

ah ok I understand.

Why don’t you just let FCPX do the transcoding as Jeremy suggested?

It would eliminate that extra step and allow you to get cracking on the important part which would be keywording, adding favorites and so on. While you work on these, transcoding happens in the background.

When your ready to archive and want to reduce the size of the event, simply go to your finder, allocate the event in the Final Cut Events folder, and delete the optimised media folder which is found in the transcoded media folder.

Also you’ll need to remember that importing your files only creates a reference link, which means you’ll also need to backup the native H.264 files.

Really I’m only repeating what Jeremy has already suggested, but that’s the basic of what you want to do.

[Tony Sarafoski]

Not a problem… Is there any other reason why you use Grinder other than embedding a timecode?

[Tony Sarafoski]

Sandeep,

Here you go, I’ve recorded a video screencast. Sorry couldn’t be bothered talking so its only video.

As you’ll see I throw a few 5D Mark II H.264 clips in MPEG Streamclip, transcode to ProRes LT, bring them into X, change the clip names, delete & re-encode.

https://youtu.be/1IM5w3KaOdE

[Tony Sarafoski]

Greg,

To elaborate on Jeremy’s reply.

Manually create a Final Cut Events folder on your external drive. Then again manually create another folder within the Final Cut Events folder, and give it the same name as the even you’ll be copying the files from.

Only copy the following files/folders to the external drive.

CurrentVersion.fcpevent
Tanscoded Media (but only the proxy folder)

Now, make sure both events aren’t active at the same time. Plug in the external drive, make sure you change playback in X to proxy, and your good to go 😉

Hope that helps 😉

[Tony Sarafoski]

[Sandeep Sajeev] ” Not sure if you changed the name of the clip in the Event Library though?”

In my test no i didn’t, but theres no reason why you can’t. Changing a clip name in your event will not effect the original clip name at the finder level.

For example, your footage is from a Canon 5D Mark II and the original clip name is MV0001.MOV. Unless you manually change this at the finder level, then when you transcode it using MPEG Streamclip, this clip will remain as MV0001.MOV.

If you now import this file in an event, and in your event you change its name to something like Tony Card 1, the metadata will remember the original clips name as MV001.MOV, but in your event will carry the “renamed” name. Does that make sense?

[Sandeep Sajeev] “- Quit FCPX.
– Moved the renamed file one folder up to simulate a Delete Operation.
– Restarted FCPX.
– File still shows up as Online!”

That’s correct, even though you move the files in finder, the metadata re-adjusts itself in the background so that when you re-open X, the files remain linked. The only way to “unlink” the media is to either delete/empty trash, or move the media to another drive. Only then will the media be offline when you reopen X.

It does take a little getting use to, but once you grasp the concept, you’ll be unstoppable 😉

[Sandeep Sajeev] “- Went ahead and clicked on Relink Event Files anyway.
– Here the file shows up as missing.”

Interesting, I just tried this and got a different result?

I changed the folders name, opened X (files were still online), then opened the relink window, which didn’t show missing files?

[Sandeep Sajeev] “Not sure why it didn’t show the file as offline in the Event Library though. I could skim through it etc no problem. I did have Proxies unchecked when I set up the Event.”

Like I mentioned, even though you rename or change a folders position at the finder level, the metadata will automatically update itself so that you don’t loose connection when you open X next. Really clever if you ask me 😉

I would read over Jeremy’s post, his advice is spot on and what I would do in a situation like this.

Let us know if you need any further help.