Moving clips between bins

I am finding media management in prelude a real pain.
After ingesting my H264 head cam material, I often need to sort and move the rushes into appropriate bins.
I find this takes ages with with Prelude CC 3.1 why?
I also have to often start new (monthly) projects because of the long delay opening old (large) projects.
Is there a way to open project without it taking ages looking for all of the media therein referenced?
As I have many projects for this year, how can I do a search through several? Is there any way of combining or referencing other projects, or having 2 open at a time to move clips between?
Steve

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no one with the same problem?

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hello, all of a sudden i cannot move my clips between bins anymore. any idea why? thanks

nice one....well i just restarted fcp and everything went back to normal.

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Is this possible? I work on a Macbook Pro, using CS4 production premium. How can I move clips between projects in PP CS4?
I KNOW there's a way. Just can't figure it out.
Thanks!

The easiest, IMO, is to Open your source Project and remove everything that will not be needed. Do a Save_As. Import that Save_As Project into your new one. Be sure to then twirl open the Bins, and Dbl-click on the Save_As Project's Timeline.
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PS I also go to Project and choose Delete Unused (or similar syntax) to clean things up for the Save_As.
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Moving clips between events

In the FCPX manual, it states that you can move clips between events by just clicking and dragging a clip from one event to another. It also says that doing the same thing with the option key down will copy clips to the other event.
However, I've noticed that dragging a clip to another event just makes a copy of the clip. It's kinda annoying. Any workaround?

I'm seeing odd behaviour with this too.
Imported a tape which contained 3 separate days footage of different activities.
These were imported to my Movies folder in Home directory.
I created 2 new events and tried moving the content as per manual instructions for content on same drive but I only ended up with copies or a freeze due to a non-updating background activity (the file transfer).
Ended up with multiple copies of the same clips in different events on the same drive, some events listing the clips several times but only a single physical clip when viewed in Finder.
I managed to move a single clip successfully but for the life of me not sure why that worked - maybe because it was a single clip not a group?
This is very disconcerting behaviour when you're trying to organise content.
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Moving clips between movies

What's the best method to split an iMovie in 2 or move clips from one movie to another? I've tried 3 methods which sort of work but I was wondering if there's a more efficient method.
1. Copy entire movie and delete unwanted footage from each copy. This can be slow with large projects and uses a lot of disk space.
2. Create a new (empty) movie. Quit iMovie. Open each movie (show package contents) and drag the clips from one to the other. This works but iMovie will warn you about missing/added clips.
3. Open first (large) movie. Create a second (empty) movie. Drag clips from the first to the second then delete them from the first. This works best for moving a few clips.
Eric

Welcome to discussions!
iMovie pastes across multiple projects
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5023.shtml
How to split a project in two
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/usage/5003.shtml
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Moving clips between computers

I have clips on my computer in iMovie that I want to transfer to my daughters computer (both are fairly recent Macs running 10.8.2) so that she can use them in an iMovie project. How do I best do this? Do I need to put them into a project first? Am I best off using an external drive for the transfer (as opposed to Wi-Fi)? Thanks for any advice!
Dan

Hi
I think You can connect via Wi-Fi - but read my (general) note on this.
Moving Event's and Project's
Connection - Either connect one Mac in Target mode to the other via FireWire. Or use an external hard disk !
(Target-Mode - Start one Mac e.g. laptop - BUT keep T-key down during full up-start - Now a FW-symbol is jumping around the screen and it will work as an external hard disk when connected to the other Mac)
A. The External Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work for Video. UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things but not for Video whatever program is used (iMovie or FinalCut)
B. Should be a FireWire one as USB/USB2 performs badly to me and especially when filling up
C. Do never Move or Alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - as this will result in iMovie losing connections to them and repair can be anything from hard to impossibly
D. Moving and Copying must be done within iMovie application and Events to Events - and - Project's to Project's.
E. Moving Project's to Event's - Do not work for me - I have to export project as a QuickTime movie then Import this into Events.
Event's window can show two faces
Like this
or like this
from one hard disk Event - You can move it to the other hard disk
You can not (at least not me) move Event to Project or other way around only
Event to Event and Project to Project
Yours Bengt W

Moving clips between events crashes FCPX every time...

I'm trying to move clips from one event to another. I'm duplicating the clip first, and then I try to drag the duplicate of the clip to another event. Every time I do this, FCPX crashes.
Is this the right way to move clips? If not, how do I properly move clips from one event to another? What could be causing FCPX to crash every time? (I've tried different clips in different projects, and it still always crashes.)

Hi Russ--
Yes, I tried his suggestion to use Organize Event. I don't think it helped.
I have a feeling your second question is probably just as if not more relevant. I tend to have almost everything in one project coming from the event it is associated with. But then I have some credits or titles or something that might be in another event. I wanted to bring them into the associated event to keep everything organized well.
But it seems like maybe what I should do is give up on that and wait to do anything like this until the project is finished and I'm ready to move it. I guess maybe I could then use the option to move the project and referenced events when I move the finished project? But the other event referenced is also referenced by other projects, so I don't know if that is a good idea.
Or maybe I should be using File> Consolidate Project Media...? But I don't know exactly what effect that would have.
I had just decided that it seemed like something I could do manually, and, when that didn't work, I got hung up on why it wouldn't work that way. I wanted to know why it wouldn't work that way, and now I've kind of given up on figuring that out in favor of continuing work on the projects.

Dragging clips to bins is very slow in Premiere CS6

I just upgraded to Premiere CS6 from CS 5.5 (no thank you, CC) and have problems with very slow speed when dragging clips from one bin to another in the Project panel. Here are the specifics:
I have about 1500 clips in a bin that I'm sorting through in the Project panel, putting clips into other bins as I classify them. If I have the 1500 clips sorted by the Name field, there's no delay as I move a clip or clips from the big bin to one of the smaller bins. If, however, I sort the 1500 clips by Media File Path in the Project panel (which puts the clips in chronological order because the file names reflect date and time), then doing the same work results in an 8-second delay every time I try to move a clip between bins.
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I have no such trouble with delays in CS5.5, so I'm at a loss. I need to have the bin sorted by Media File Path, because I need them in chronological order as I evaluate them. But an 8-second delay each time I move a clip bogs me down so much it's impractical to get any sorting done.
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A good suggestion. I did try that earlier, but alas, no luck.
Sorting works across all bins in the Project panel, so once you sort on the Media File Path, drags are slow from all bins, even if you segment into bins as small as two clips.
Premiere is doing something bad with sorts after CS5.5. Looks like Adobe fell down on regression testing for the updated version. Then again, it's got to be hard to regression test as many features as Premiere has.

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I'm trying to insert a clip between two clips yet still having everything from all V/A 1,2,3,4,etc. layers to move along with whatever clip is moved down the line. Everyone keep saying: Use the ctrl key! but all that does is indeed move some of it down but it cuts bits of the video in the process. I'm not sure how to solve this. I simply want to drag and drop an item between two clips and not cut or mess up any additional V layers.

You can load a title into the Source Monitor by dragging it there from the Project Panel. But you can also use the insert command directly from the Project panel, via either the context menu or the same shortcut.
Be aware that if the sequence has In/Out points set, then the Insert & Overwrite commands will insert the selected source into that range. This is known as 3-point or 4-point editing (depending on whether you have both in & out points set in both the source and the sequence). If In/Out points are not set in the sequence, then the source is inserted at the playhead's position in the Timeline.
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I have run some tests and still not getting the behaviour I want.
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I am moving clips around and many times want to to insert a clip exactly between two other clips. When I do it however, I seem to chop off a bit of one of the existing clips. Is there an easy way to slide in or insert precisely between two clips? It's a pain to go back and patch together the broken clips. Thank you, Stan

I do not understand why, with Snap ON, PrE will shear off a Frame, or two, but if one Moves the Clip slowly, and with little "force," that does not happen. I have never observed similar behavior in PrPro.
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Should be a simple enough task but, how do I move clips made in one project to another project?

clip media is not conained within a project per se, rather it is referenced by a project, so as long as the media is on the hard disc then it can be referenced by as many projects as you'd like.
you can open multiple projects simultaneously ... then to move clips between the projects you can just drag and drop between the various projects' bins, or copy and paste if you prefer.

Need a way to automatically block HU stock when moved to damage bin.

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