My imported movie shows up in the event library under 2006 date, month of march, the movie name. I want the movie to show up in the event library under the date I choose and the movie name. How do I do this?

Question

My imported movie shows up in the event library under 2006 date, month of march, the movie name.  I want the movie to show up in the event library under the date I choose and the movie name. How do I do this?

Answer 1

rogerhermans wrote:
I did change the name of the event. I cannot change the date of the event in the Modify command. The date and month was selected by the system as I did not name my event to start with. I now want to change the date (from 2006 to 1987) , delete the month and show the event name. I want the event library to post all my events by year (specified by me) and name of event.
you can change the date, so that FCPX categorizes it properly.  First delete the clip(s) from FCPX, but not from your computer entirely, make sure you have the originals somewhere.
Open a terminal window and use the following command:
touch -t 198711280800.00 <path/filename of clip>
Where the format is:  (use leading zeros if necessary for date & time)
first four digits: year
next four:  month and day
next four:  time of day (in 24 hour format)
next 2:  seconds as a decimal (this is optional, if you leave it off you will get 00 seconds)
The above example will change the file date to Nov. 8, 1987  08:00:00 AM
This will change the created, modified and last access dates of the clip/file.
Then reimport the clip(s) and FCPX should categorize it properly.