Final Cut Events on second drive

Hi,
I don't want the Final Cut Events folder to my main drive. Is it possible to have it on a second?
Olof

You can put them anywhere you want or move them around see http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/faq/

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I had a re-start this morning and the event I was working on lost its purple box and its white star. Can't find the project, can't find the event.
Even more troubling, the Final Cut Events and Library folders on my external hard drive is also gone. Really need some help here. Any ideas?

It almost looks like all of the original media is gone.

No audio for some files in the Final Cut Event/Original Media folder

Hi, recently, I noticed that some of the video files stored into the Final Cut Event/"Event"/Original Media folder had no audio. They do have audio when I read them into FCP X but not when I open them as ordinary files in the Finder. It worries me as it makes these files unusable in any other application, unless I "share" them from FCP X. It's no big deal but it's more work and on the principle, it's criminal: why FCP X would strip the audio off an original? Video and photo applications now work on the non-destructive principle!
I usually shoot videos with a DSLR (Canon 550D/T2i) and a GoPro 3. It seems that the files impacted are the ones shot with the Canon and optimized for FCP X. The GoPro files are fine, optimized or not.
Is there any solution to this problem or will I have to export the files from FCP X?

Thank you very much for the info.
I removed the Media Cache and Media Cache File folders. Didn't seem to make any difference. Also, there's no audio if I try to play it in Organizer.
I have a question regaring "import". What exactly does that mean?
Since all my MTS files are on hard drive already, what I did was:
1) Open a new project in PE9.
2) In the "Organize" tab, click "Get Media"
3) Choose "Get Videos/Photos/Audio from: Files and Folders".
4) In the pop-up window, navigate to my folder and choose the existing MTS file.
Was that called "import"?
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FCP X will always recognize both internal drives in my MacPro, named Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD2. About one third of the time it will see that both are present, but for Macintosh HD2 it will say there are no Events or Projects or anything else there for FCP X to read. After rebooting anywhere between 1 and 5 times it will recognize the Final Cut Events folder that is actually there and let me get on with my work. I have never changed anything about the folder manually or outside of FCP X, and it's not like it never recognizes the folder. It is only about a third of the time that it will not recognize it.
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Is there any way to point FCP X to the events folder on a specific drive that it thinks is not there so I don't have to keep quitting FCP X and rebooting?
Is this a bug that others have had and Apple will address or is it something about my hard drive?
It only happens to one drive, the other internal drive is fine, and all external drives and drobos have been perfect. Could it be that the drive in question is only 5400 rpm?

If Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects folders are on your internal drive, make sure they are in the Movies folder. This is where they are installed by default when on the system drive it seems. If on an external or non-system drive put them at the top level of the drive.
Then (IMPORTANT), if you have them on more than one drives at the same time, Final Cut Pro X can get confused IF you have the same event names and project names in these two folders on both drives. It's probably best to put them only on one drive to troubleshoot your problems. Then, once that is resolved, you could have the Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects folders at the top level of two drives but with differning events and projects within them. It should have nothing to do with a drive being a 5400 rpm. The timeouts for reading drives for an application are much slower than the rotational speed of the drive. IMHO. Best wishes.
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Final cut events has the date 24 jan 1984

On one of my external Drobo drives that i back up events and projects, my final cut events, projects folder has the date 24 jan 1984 and its greyed out - i seen to be able to copy to it but cant seems to open it…any ideas? FCPX 10.0.9

This has been reported several times in iPhoto '11 version 9.1.2 - it appears to be a bug - the only reported workaround that has been posted is to correct the dates on the photos and create a new event with them - try flagging all of the photos in the bad event after the dates are correct and then create a new event from the flagged photos
You can search the forums to see the other discussions
I would expect a correction in a future upgrade
do report to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
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I am in the process of trying to clean up one space. While doing this I noticed the I have a Final Cut Project and Final Cut event of the same name as you can see below in the screen shot below. Is the event part of the project. The project was created prior to my upgrade to Yosemite.
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Hi. Please take a look at this Apple support doc. – particularly the two sections, "is media duplicated…" and "Can I delete…"
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But then I clicked the Movies tab in finder and realized that my "Final Cut Events" and "Final Cut Projects" are missing! The backups folder is still intact, as well as my libraries, but those folder are missing. I've searched thoroughly around my MacBook and cannot locate them.
So I guess I'm wondering: is there away to recreate these folders? I can still access events and projects from within Final Cut Pro but the only way to get to the events or projects is by right-clicking on a library in the Movies tab and selecting the "Show Package Contents" option.
This is my first post on the forum because I am literally puzzled and have spent many hours searching for a solution to no avail. Any and all help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

Mark, thanks for lending a helping hand. Truthfully, I don't rememeber that option when I upgraded. There was nothing too important in the folders, as I store the larger projects on my Time Capsule and try to delete old events as I complete the projects. However, when I now import footage, the events are only created in the designated FC library. Those folders don't exist on my computer anymore and they are not in the trash. Is there a way to recreate the folders or did I completely ruin FC? Thanks again for your help, it means a lot.

Why does final cut x copy events even when the copy files to final cuts events folder is unchecked

When I import iMovie (v 9.04) events into Final Cut Pro X (v 10.0.2) it always copies (duplicates) the events even though the "copy files to Final Cut Events folder" import preference is unchecked. I do not want to duplicate 1 TB of data for no reason. Is this a bug or is the feature badly mislabeled? Can I impot iMovie events without duplicating them?

You shouldn't expect the FCP events folder to be twice the iMovie events folder. While the .dv files (or whatever the media are) are duplicated, the iMovie Movie Cache and iMovie Thumbnails folders are not. Instead, FCP creates a Render Files folder and a CurrentVersion.fcpevent file.
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Now I have no way of knowing if this is true, but is it possible that FCP duplicated events until it ran out of disk space? While the FCP events folders are a bit smaller than the iMovie events folders, it may not be enough to have made everything fit. And keep in mind that it takes a while for the Render Files folders to be generated. After I imported 50 events (about an hour of video each), it took a few hours for FCP to finish generating the Render Files folders. I watched the entire Final Cut Events folder grow by several GB while that was going on.
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http://youtu.be/MNCfTsxJUcw
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     On any of those 5 drives you tested Tom did you by any chance have an EXACT duplicate event folder? Because in my case FCPx will display exact copys of PROJECTS on two drives but it will NEVER display two exact copys of EVENT folders.
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Final Cut Pro X - second document cannot be opened

Help !   I have a very irritating problem I cannot get rid of.
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Error Symbol on Final Cut Event

Hi,
I have been working on my FCP project and then realized there's a error symbol sitting on my FC event.
See the attached image.
I was scared so I browsed clips in that event folder and see if there're any broken links. I didn't see anything wrong.
I played my project that's using this event. It works fine too.
Don't know if anyone know how to figure out where problems are exactly.
I worked on my video on an external hard drive. I do backup my files to another external hard drive as well.
I check the event from the other external hard drive and it has no such error symbol.
I am thinking to copy that event over to the drive where I'm actually working. See if this will solve the problems.
As I do backup, I haven't done restoring the files over for FCP projects.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Tom, Thanks for your feedback.
this thing annoy me the whole day.
i dont know what's missing.
i just copied the files over from my another external backup drive to that event folder.
i thought this would solve the problems. when i opened FCP again, the error symbol is still there.
do you have any ideas?
event is just a folder to store clips. if clips not in use are missing, this shouldn't have any error symbols.
if they are used by the project, the error symbol should appear in the project folder.

Just purchased Final cut Studio, but DVD drive wont boot the install disk

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I'm sure your drive size is a typo. You'll need a much larger drive if it's accurate.
Some install DVDs are unreadable and must be replaced.
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Ok, here is my question when using an Imac.
I, of course use the firewire port to import the video to the computer, but what type of external hard drive should I use with the program? I was told the best way to do editing with an Imac is with an external hard drive. Are there any recomendations?

See... Didn't take long...
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Apple recommends against a lot of things, so if you're into that koolaid, no worries. My experience has been good with them, however, and for editing. There's no reason why USB2.0 won't handle most editing tasks that don't involve more than a few streams.
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