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I saved a Final Cut Library/Project onto a new external drive from another external drive. All 33gb moved but when I open it, the clips all say "File Missing". The above explanation is not working. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.4
I just copied the entire contents of the drive (2+TB) which included the Final Cut Libraries onto the other drive. Nothing more.
I spoke to an editor - this is a paraphrase of what he said, 'Final Cut creates paths and the content needs to be linked back, it won't just read it because everything was moved." My unparaphrased was response was "that's crap UIUX and could have been solved with better coding logic." THAT being said, I did find all the files (no help from Apple) on the new drive and dropped them in.
I just copied the entire contents of the drive (2+TB) which included the Final Cut Libraries onto the other drive. Nothing more.
I spoke to an editor - this is a paraphrase of what he said, 'Final Cut creates paths and the content needs to be linked back, it won't just read it because everything was moved." My unparaphrased was response was "that's crap UIUX and could have been solved with better coding logic." THAT being said, I did find all the files (no help from Apple) on the new drive and dropped them in.
Saved how? Did you make a new library and save it on the external? Did you copy an existing library to the external? What exactly did you do? Where is the media stored? Inside the library or outside it? Did you use the consolidate function to move the media somewhere?
There are good reasons you *don't* want FCP to decide for you where it thinks the media files are when it can't find them. Let's say you moved the library to another drive and on that drive media files with names Clip0001.mov, Clip0002.mov, etc. already exist. When the moved library is opened, its database says its files are in xyz location, but they're not there. If FCP were to automatically look locally, it might find files with the correct names (and if the same camera was used), frame rates and sample rates and then relink them. Your project would be a mess and you'd have to relink anyway. Much safer and extremely easy to do as Luis says and point FCP to where the media files are and Relink. Takes 3 minutes. This way you're guaranteed that the library references the correct media. For large projects, media management is critical. Hopefully this helps you to understand its importance.
Thanks Luis - I didn't dismiss the correct advice out of hand because I was never given that advice. The editor just said what I quoted with no other instructions. I looked for directions in several locations and from Apple. I didn't find those very simple (and excellent) instructions anywhere - not that they weren't there, I just didn't see them. I have several more projects, I'll try that out.
That makes sense if you were copying a single library to another drive. On the other hand, the coding logic that goes with copying an entire drive (including all folders) to an entirely new blank drive, could be written to make sure pathways are intact since everything has been moved together.
sxandon wrote:
Thanks Luis - I didn't dismiss the correct advice out of hand because I was never given that advice. The editor just said what I quoted with no other instructions. I looked for directions in several locations and from Apple. I didn't find those very simple (and excellent) instructions anywhere - not that they weren't there, I just didn't see them. I have several more projects, I'll try that out.
Sorry if my reply was out of line.
The person apparently you needed to "link", which I interpreted as you need to "relink in FCP" - I thought it was implied, but that is probably because I am familiar with the process. I am glad that you worked it out, anyway.
It would have been as simple as File->Relink Files, click All, then click Locate and select the new drive. FCP relinks everything.
Basically you dismissed the correct advice out of hand.
Final Cut Pro transfer issue
