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I'm embarrassed to have to ask this......
I completed a project a month ago.
Now I want to re-open it and insert an additional clip that we've made into the existing sequence.
But I can't find it.
And the saddest thing is that I'm not exactly sure what I should be looking for?
I'll know it when I see it - it's the one sequence that has the whole project from which I made a DVD.
But when I open various sequences none of them is the right one - or even close to it - these are all just short bits, none of them are even close to the completed file I had.
Any help would be much appreciated, because even though I saved religiously and backed up throughout, I am getting a little nervous.
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I FOUND it!!!
But I'd still like to make this a learning experience in some valuable lessons on organization and also arrive at some understanding of how this all works. There's something ironic about my inability to get my head around how FCP is organized because other than that, I've always thought of FCP as THE most intuitive program I've ever used. As someone who uses Photoshop and Dreamweaver quite a bit and struggled for years with the learning curves in those programs, I've found FCP to be very intuitive right from the get go.
But the file locations still baffle me. My brain just can't handle it somehow.
So, here's what happened - I looked again in the Auto-save vault and couldn't find anything with the correct date for my project. Virtually all of the long list of FCPP files were almost identical in size - about 467kb. But just now, I spotted one that was outside the date range of my project (about 2 weeks after it was completed) that's 26mb.
When I opened any of the other smaller files, I just get empty sequences and very few things in the bins. However, not surprisingly, when I open the one larger file, I get all the other stuff I've been looking for.
So, my questions about this:
1. If this is the AutoSave Vault and all of these files were saved automatically to preserve my project, why do none of them except the last one, have any of the clips, assets, files and bins?
2. Now that I've successfully opened the project, I opened the Save As window to see where it would be saved. Sure enough, it would save it in the first place I started looking - my FCP Project Files folder, yet when I look through the contents of that folder, there is not another file there with this name, which suggests that it's never been saved to this folder. So, when I've saved it in the past, where was it saving to?
3. Is there any manual or "For Dummies" book you'd recommend that lays out the file structure and placement of FCP files?
Thank you so much for your help!

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