Is it possible to rename an event library?

Friends,
I want to rename my event library on my drive. How do I do it? When I try to do so through the finder window, the original name keeps popping up.
It's not a huge deal, but . . .
Thanks!
Steve

Not really. The application is looking for a specific filepath. If the filepath to the media isn't there, it will lose connection with it.
Same thing happens in most editing applications. Change the filepath and the media is lost. There is no reconnect function in FCP to point to the new path however.

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Is it possible to make is so that, immediately after I import a new clip into FCPX, the file is automatically selected in the Event Library? (Similar to how After Effects and Premiere work). Right now, after I import a new file, I have to then go searching for it amid all the other files in my project. It would be extremely helpful if the file I just imported was already highlighted and selected after import, making it instantly "locatable" and ready to go.

Kryan73 wrote:
… after I import a new file, I have to then go searching for it amid all the other files…
in a perfect world, you do know the recording date, and you simply scroll to that date.
in a very perfect world, all your other imports are already tagged, so just have to create a smart list 'unrated' ...
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I need to flip a clip in the event library, not timeline. Is that possible?

I have a clip that is upsidedown and want to flip it in the event library and then work on clips. Can I do that? Is all editing available in the event library?
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somanna wrote:
Hello Luis,
Did what you wrote and it is indeed done. BTW, the timeline which appears when we do this procedure, what of it? Will it be a separate 'project' on the timeline or will it go away once such editing is done?
This is the timeline for that specific clip. In FCP X each clip can be opened in its own timeline.
If you again select the same clip in the event libraryand choose "open in timeline" there you'll have it.

Renaming clips that have already been imported into Event Library...

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Would anyone know how to change the filenames of clips that after they've been imported into my iMovie Event Library?
To keep track of my clips, I changed all the video filenames BEFORE importing them, so in Finder, they look like this:
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etc...
A few dozen videos that I imported a while back have different names, and I'd like to change them to the easier numerical filenames above.
Problem is...I've already created projects using those clips, and simply changing the filenames in Finder would break those Projects. And I'm unsure if I'd have to reimport the files after I change their names.
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As long as the default iPhoto Preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library" is checked you can delete photos once they are imported and tested within iPhoto
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I've imported about a half dozen tapes so far (close to six hours) of my movies. I'm using the 'automatic' setting and select 'new event' for each one. However, it seems some of the new events have been added to an existing event. So, how easy/hard is it to modify my Event Library? I'd like to move the captured movies around into more logical events.
Also I want to rename some of the events. For example, I have a birthday party on the beginning of a tape so I label the event 'birthday' but the second, third etc days of the import are different topics, but they are labeled 'birthday day 2', 'birthday day 3' etc. Can I edit the names of the events??
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I'd like to move the captured movies around into more logical events... Also I want to rename some of the events.
As Appleman points out, all changes should be made from within iMovie '08 if possible since these changes will modify physical names in the resource paths. (I.e., double-clicking on an event name in iMovie '08 and changing its name not only changes the name of the event but also changes the name of the folder containing the clips which means that all resources references also need to be changed. iMovie '08 automatically updates everything if these changes are made within iMovie '08, but if you make such changes at the finder level, the you have to make all updates manually yourself.
So, how easy/hard is it to modify my Event Library? I'd like to move the captured movies around into more logical events.
It is very easy. Simply "grab" the file or files in the event window you wish to move and drag them to the "Event Name" (i.e., the name listed in the "Event Library") of the event to which you wish to movie them.
Can I edit the names of the events?
Yes, as indicated above, simply double-click the specific event name you wish to change and when the name changes to an "edit" box, simple type in the new name you want to use.

Reorganizing Events in my Events Library

I am studying the iMovie '11 Help to figure out *how to re-organize my Events Library*. One lesson is How to move a clip from one Event to another. It says:
+To move video clips from one Event to another:+
+In the Event Library, click to select the Event with the video you want to move.+
+In the Event browser, select the clip or clips you want to move.+
+Drag the clips to the name of the other Event in the Event Library to which you want to move them.+
+Release the mouse button when you see the name of the Event highlighted.+
+Click OK.+
_My question is_, *Can I create a brand new folder in the Events Library and move clips from various other events into that new folder?* I ask because the Help explanation explains that we can move clips from one folder to another (existing) folder but it does not mention the possibility of creating a totally brand new folder.
Example: In five folders/Events, I have footage of various themes: (1) My dog watching ucks in the pool, (2) Inside the house new furniture, (3) My dog inside the house, (4) Baby birds in a nest growing up and leaving the nest. (5) Children laughing in bed.
There are five Events with a jumble of all of those themes. In this case, I will end up with five folders and five themes, so I will have to only rename the folders, BUT *what about the cases where I need more folders? Is it ok to create a new folder for those clips taken from other Events?*
I ask because I have been told over and over that iMovie is a very sensitive program that doesn't want us to be fiddling with the contents, or that we have to fiddle with them only while working in iMovie. I want to make sure that what I described is a legitimate kind of fiddling around, and not one which will lose me footage and audio as happened to me about ten years ago (after which I quit iMovie for a long time.)
-L
Message was edited by: Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna,
for quite a while, I'm watching with admiration and a good portion of amusement (no offense meant!) your tenacity to win the struggle with movie-making in general and iM in special ...
in this case, we have to get less 'practical' advice, but more 'concept thinking':
in real-life, people like to store things in drawers - there's a drawer for socks, another for shirts. What if you need red socks for a red shirt? you have to search manually in both drawers.
now, computers: since iTunes, Apple tries to teach people to use tags: there's a big basket with socks AND shirts, but each has tags, (sock, red, wool, old, holes ... ). A computer is much faster than you to organize this mess: one click 'red' and you instantly get any red socks and red shirts!
back to movie making:
what you want is drawers (=folders), you can manually organize. The Big Brother of iMovie, FinalCut call them bins.
but you'll find in iM a knob with a key on it - KEYWORDS (tags)! it allows to tag each clip, or part of, with as much keywords you like ... hmm, you need.
the better you apply keywords to clips (and iM allows to use your very own keywords, adding 'dogs', 'birds', 'socks ...), the better - and faster - you'll find material for your Projects!
it is very different to real-life, and we do this discussion with ANY 'switcher', who doesn't trust that concept when importing their 45GBs/thousand 'drawers' music Libraries ... or, same in iPhoto.
face recognition is such a thing ... = I have to organize thousands of pics from my son's soccer team - the computer identifies in seconds each member of the team; a click later, I get all stills showing Player #2.... that is MUCH easier than manually searching in dozens of folders (2009? 2010? April? December? The Big Match? Training? ... )
... spend some time off the computer with a pencil and some sheets of paper. what are YOUR keywords? what are the properties, you're most searching of? make a list of your keywords. consider future usage too. and, you can add additional keywords later. keep it simple & short - after finding all 'birds' clips, you can search for the robin manually ...
summary:
Events are meant for a 'time' structure, not content.
Use Keywords.
have fun ...

How to take clips from Event Library and put in separate event folder?

(I looked in iMovie Help menu but found no help.)
I recently did a file transfer from my Sanyo HD2000A which was a large accumulation of clips taken since last spring 2010. This was my first upload.
Now I have a lot of clips organized by date by iMovie '11. There are various categories of these clips, and one of them is +"Ducks in my back yard swimming pool."+ Another is a huge number of clips taken over time of three baby sparrows in the nest outside my window. It is a progression of how they are fed by their parents and how they grow and leave.
My plan is to get them into their own folders, filed by time/recency, and then pick and choose from those two folders/categories during the making of a movie which includes them along with other little adventures.
Question: How can I separate all of the duck clips and the sparrow clips so that they are each in their own folder and not spread out in folders organized by days?
=L

Lorna, I think I understand better now what you are talking about.
So on any one clip, it will be ducks, or sparrows, but not both.
You can create a folder in the Event Library called Ducks and another folder called Sparrows. These must be in the Movies/iMovie Events folder on your internal drive, or they must be in the iMovie Events folder at the top level of an external drive.
Go through your current Event folders. Drag the duck clips to the duck folder. Drag the Sparrow clips to the Sparrow folder. I would do a MOVE, but if you have enough disk space, you could do this as a COPY until you are sure that all works as you intend.
The next time you open iMovie, it will generate thumbnails and cache for these new Duck and Sparrow events. The events will be placed in the Event Library in the month of the most recent clip, even though the clips may span several months.
If all goes well, you can delete the prior events. If there is footage still in them (that is not sparrows or ducks, for example), you could delete the thumbnails and cache folders and let iMovie regenerate thumbnails and cache after it opens.
Also, Tom's advice about not moving or renaming anything you have already used is very appropriate...
If you have already created Projects using this material, this will break the links in your projects. (Unless you did a COPY rather than a MOVE above and left both the old and new folders intact.)

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Tried:
permissions
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moving file to main drive
moving file to another drive that isn't a TM drive
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That said, when FCPX sees the TM drive partition, it might do something that dismounts the other partition from its view as well. For example, it might look at a drive-level identifier and decide that anything with that identification is not suitable for FCPX.
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HT4740 How can I avoid or solve the problem of Final Cut Pro crashes when trying to Show Events Library?

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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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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).
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2. To open the Info inspector, click the Inspector button in the toolbar (shown below), and click the Info button at the top of the pane that appears.
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