Final cut pro 10.1 events

I have FCP 10.1.1 but have a project that was left on an external hard drive and not upgraded to 10.1 library system. I've read about migrating, but haven't found a solution to bringing this event and the source files to this version of FCP. Help! Here is a screenshot of the folder that I need to open in FCP 10.1.1:

So long as your drive still has the usual two root folders (Final Cut Events and Final Cut Projects) use the file option to upgrade these. If those root folders no longer exist, just create them, an copy the project folder structure and even folder structure back into them.
and select the drive that these folders exist on ....
Cheers,
Bammers

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If you imported your media with transcoding or copy options, then you can recover those files from the Final Cut Events > EventName > Original Media folder (as long as they are not aliases to the originals.) If you archived originals on Import you can retreive your media from the archive (looks like a film "can") by right-clicking and selecting Show Package Contents (you should see basically the same layout as is on your memory card in your camera.) Just go in and drag them out, then trash the archive. Other than that, the data saved in the Final Cut Projects folder is pretty useless for any other app.

In Final Cut Pro I was trying to move an Event Library from one hard drive to another as explained in the Help section. After doing so, I received a message that my event is already open with the same identifier as the new one I just creat

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What exactly are you doing and what version are you using with OS X 10.8?

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In Event Library: how to know if a video was used in the timeline of Final Cut Pro X?
An example: In Premiere Pro, the whole video is added to the timeline identified as used in their video library. Facilitating our work on a big project, not to repeat videos. You can do this in FCPX?

The way it works in FCP:
Working from the Timeline Index, you can see lists of all clips in the sequence and their location in the timeline.
You can also do a search (kevn) to narrow the results.
Russ
hth.
Russ

(final cut pro x 10.0.9 )After numerous troubleshooting tips, I am still getting the dreadful your disk have ran out of space, your events have moved or permissions have changed. This happened after I moved some files to another drive. They won't relink?

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(final cut pro x 10.0.9 )After numerous troubleshooting tips, I am still getting the dreadful your disk have ran out of space, your events have moved or permissions have changed. This happened after I moved some files to another drive. They won't relink eventhough the files are there.

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When I try to Show Events Library in Final Cut Pro, it crashes each time. Please tell me how do I work around this problem?

Try creating a new (temporary) folder and putting all your events in there - then launch FCP X.
If you can open the Browser, then it's possible one or more of the clips in one of your events is corrupt. Close the app and move the events back into their original places one by one (re-starting FCP X each time). This will help you find the event which has the corrupt file in it.
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Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs when FCP X (or any of the Apple Professional Applications) are working normally. Then when either of the applications are acting strangely, Trash the Preferences, then Restore from your backups (just a mouse-click).
If you trash the prefs and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then your backups are up to date.
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I know this has been talked about in one way or another but I still am just not understanding. Any help I can recieve will be much appriciated. Just purchased Final cut pro x and I have an external hard drive that I have some events on. FCPX will recognize the external hard drive but says there are no events in the external hard drive. I checked 2 other external hard drives as well and all three FCPX will not read the events that are in the hard drive.
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Brian, I notice that I have to have whatever drives connected before openeing FCPX; so sometimes when you plug in a USB3 drive or a Thunderbolt drive on the fly, even if though it mounts, it won't be recognized until you re-launch FCPX.
Beyond that, it's important to make certain that you name the two folders in the attached drive exactly: Final Cut Events, and Final Cut Projects, and they should be on the root directory of the connected drive(s). On all of my systems, if you have multiple drives connected with identical projects, FCPX actually picks one and warns you that there are two different identical projects and tells you which one it opened.
If you take the time to provide Tom with what he's asked, he is extremely helpful and will likely identify the issue.

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how do i get final cut pro x to recognize my time capsule in event library?

Yeah I'm getting the same issue. I purchased a new Mac Mini yesterday purely to use the new FCPX, and now on day 1 I'm already running into problems... please don't make me switch to Premiere.
Set up the computer with external yesterday, never set anything to Time Machine. Here's a screenshot of the drive, formatted on Mac OS Extended (Journaled):
And here's a screenshot of FCPX not recognizing the drive:
Apple please respond to this post, would really appreciate some help here troubleshooting.

I have a fairly new iMac wI now have iMovie events and Final Cut pro events that are duplicates. Does that mean that all my video is copied onto my hard dive twice?

If I have video in imovie and final cut pro X, does that mean there are two copies of the video, one for each piece of SW? If so, how do I get rid of the imovie events and keep only the Final Cut Pro X events (video)? I don't want multiple copies of the same video stored on the hard drive.

If you import to FCP directly from the Camera or from a camera archive, you would likely import choosing Optimized Files which would go to a FCP event that is in ProRes 422 codec. This would be in addition to your iMovie Event which would import using the Apple Intermediate Codec. So you would have two copies of the same information. An AIC copy and a larger ProRes copy.
However, if you use FILE/IMPORT/iMOVIE EVENT LIBRARY, FCP will not duplicate the event files from iMovie. It will treat them as referenced files, and will point to the iMovie Event files in the reference. So there is no duplication. You will be editing Apple Intermediate Codec files in FCP.
However, FCP will create Event folders. In addition to the reference information, these will contain thumbnail files that are compatible with FCP, stabilization and analysis files that are compatible with FCP, as well as any intermediate render files that are associated with the Event.
So in this case, there is no duplication of the large event files, but there is some duplication of the small thumbnail files.
I have several terabytes of iMovie Events, which are now all available in FCP. Believe me, I would know if they were duplicated because all my disks would be full.

Can/ how do I link two or more "projects" - not events or clips - "projects" together in final cut pro 10?

Can/ how do I link two or more "projects" - not events or clips - "projects" together in final cut pro 10?

Thanks Tom -
I created two "sequences". They are currently listed individually in the "project library". Now I want to take sequence "B" and attatch it in it's entirety to the end of sequence "A" - forming one long sequence.
I have tried to drag sequence "B" and drop it into "A's" timeline. I have tried to creat a compound clip. I'm either missing something - or - you can create a compound "clip" or a compound "event" - but perhaps you cannot link to "projects" together.
Does this help descibe my problem?
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I imported my iMovie Event Library into Final Cut Pro. I woud like to convert one of the events in the library now in Final Cut Pro to a quicktime movie. How do I do so?

skalin wrote:
I do have one more question.
The way I am "exporting" a project from Final Cut Pro to a Quicktime movie is File->Share->Master File. Is that the best way to create a QT Movie from a project?
This is a good way to export. Note that when exporting as a Master File you can choose which codec to use.
For keeping the maximum quality in case you ever need to reimport and reedit, use ProRes 422 - but note this creates huge files that most people cannot play unless they have the "ProRes" codecs (which are installed with FCP X's additional download).
For a smaller file which you can share with anyone else, use H264.
Am I correct that the QT movie file created is not "linked" in any way to the Final Cut Pro Project (i.e., if you delete the Project) nothing will happen to the QT movie?
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Final cut pro x corruption after combining events

Hi,
I installed the trial of Final Cut Pro X 2 days ago to determine if it will work properly for me. It seems that I am getting sporadic corruption when merging events, which may turn out to be a show stopper.
I am doing small merges - 2-3 events with 2-3 short clips. In general it has been fine, except yesterday I got 2 clips correped during a merge, a crash of the app which corrupted a day, and just today 5 clips from a single merge got corrupted.
Note I using the FCPX event libray and dragging/dropping to move clips around.
Any ideas of why this may be happening and whether this is a known issue?
iMac 2.8 dual core, 4G, plenty if disk (260G free)
all of the latest OS patches as well as the latest FCPX.
Nothing else significant has been running concurrently.
If there are any missing details, please do let me know.
Thanks,
Gary

Hey Andy,
Thanks for the response. To start I am a complete newbie to FCPX and have had very limited exp in iMovie. The importing was terribly slow for iMovie and I never got around to actually editing. I have a pretty lenghty response below so as to provide details.
Workflow:
1) I had done an import of files from an archives as well as my iMovie directory (as I had some clips which were missed from my orginal import into iMovie). For iMovie, I had really just been building an collection of videos which were very disorganized. I had lots of events which were date1_1, date1_2, date1_3, date_2, date_3... So checking out FCPX, I figured I would group clips mostly by an event of MONTH YR, except where there was an actual event such as a birthday.
This really cleaned up my events. As a next step, I plan to further review and break out additional events.
2) workflow going forward (current plan anyhow) - please do let me know if you have a different recommendation
now - import new footage -> either put it into the generic MONTH YR event, or put into a new appropriately labeled grouping -> some time in the future actually do something with all of this video I have taken.
On a side note, it appears that I did not have corruption, but clips that had to be re-linked. I just did a re-import from iMovie or the camera archive and that seemed to do the trick. I understand, in the future I just need to re-link
Codec:
I have the optimized video selected, however, it was just taking too long on my computer so I had stopped the transcode on several occasions..
Location:
all on my primary drive - 4T 7200
Memory:
The cpu seems to be the bottleneck - uses 150% of my dual-core. The memory seemed to be okay, but I have ordered a 4G ram chip to replace one of my 2G to bring me to 6G.
I did have a crash during an import at some point and not sure about the impact on any files, so I have DELETED MY FCPX Events and am performing a new re-import. I will not lose anything significant as I had only been reorganzing the video. I do clearly have a I have updated the prefs to only optimize. The other options I will do adhoc.
After an import from iMovie, I will be importing from my 3 camera archives since not everything is in iMovie...so this will mean dupes. I know that FCPX will prevent dupes from a particular source, but now we are talking about 3 sources which will have duplicates. Any recommendations here?
Thanks,
Gary

Is there a way make Final Cut Pro X NOT open every event/project I have worked on at open?

I will admit, I am quite new to Final Cut Pro X, but have been a FCP user for years - this version is like learning to walk all over again.
Everytime I open FCP X, it loads every event/project I have ever worked on, and it takes a looooong time. Is there a way to have it open blank and then let me open only the Events I wish to work with?

Event Manager is only $4.99 but if you don't mind doing it manually, it will cost you nothing.
This Apple help article tells you how to hide the Projects and Events you don't want opening in FCP X
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4740
As usual it makes it sound quite complex but all it involves is making 2 folders which you name Final Cut Events - Hidden and Final Cut Projects - Hidden and dragging the project and event folders you don't want into them. (The exact name of the folders is not critical so you can choose your own if you wish).
When you want to see them again you drag them back into the original folders.
You should move the folders with FCP X shutdown.

Every time I drag a clip into the events library Final Cut Pro X crashes.

Every time I drag a clip into the events library Final Cut Pro X crashes. The import appears to have occured successfully despite the crash as it is in the folder when I reopen FCPX. But having to restart the program every time I import is annoying and suggests the program is deficient. The only imports I have tried so far are from iMovie, its sister program.

Have you tried dumping the preferences file, always my first item when issues arise in the FC family. Second, have you tried different file types? It could be a file issue, FCX not recognizing it (letting you import, but throwing up afterwards).

Final Cut Pro Trial Event and Project Folders

I've just started my Final Cut Pro X TRIAL for 30 days on my Mac OS X version 10.9.4. I've used Final Cut Pro in a class before, and normally, I save all of my events and projects on an external drive to save space on my computer's hard drive. BUT THERE ARE NO EVENT AND PROJECT FOLDERS under my 'movies' folder in the finder window. Not only do I want to finish up a few projects I've already started elsewhere with saved projects and events, I'd like to be able to save projects and events externally so I can work with them anywhere. I started a first project and event to see if the event and project files would be created in my "Movies" folder, but the only folders created (which was in movies) were "Final Cut Optimized Media" and "Final Cut Original Media". How can I create "Final Cut Events" and "Final Cut Projects" folders in my movie folder, so that when I drag events and projects into these folders, they'll show up in Final Cut? Is this just for the Trial?? Please help...

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Thanks for your help. I've been trying to update my events and projects into the new libray system, but I'm failing. Maybe you can help. I've tried several ways, but mainly when I got to choose the old event and project files to be updated (either be going to File - -update libraries and events - -locate... or by File--open library--other..--locate...when I highlight my old event and project files (which are on an external harddrive), it either says 'Final cut can't find any events or projects to update' (in the case of updating) or (int eh case of opening) it just keeps making me choose a folder inside the project (with all the different kinds of media and changed files)...argh. Does that make sense? Any help? Thank you.

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