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Final Cut Pro X imported picture changed its name. Now it is different from original jpg name.

How do I relate the imported picture name (254B0064-258F-4FE1-85A1-E4C47BD553B1_1_105_c) to its original jpg name?

During editing, this picture blacked out and lost its data.

Now I have no idea what this picture was in iPhoto. There for I can not put the data back!!!

It was not a problem before. If it is a picture from smartphone, for example, the information shows 20220828_084752.jpg. The same information will show in the information in Final Cut Pro X. But it is not now.

What do I do now?

Please help!!!

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 20, 2022 1:10 PM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2022 2:27 PM

You dragged the file directly from the Photos interface into FCP and not the Finder? You're really supposed to use the Photos browser in the application to go from Photos to FCP. That long string is at the file's actual name assigned in Photos and pretty meaningless. You can see them if you look inside the Photos library. There's no way to tell what the file name originally is without finding it again in Photos. Are you using iCloud Photos Library (or didn't that exist in Catalina, I can't remember)?


Select the picture in the timeline and press Shift-F. Does it take you to an image in the browser? Or is that black as well? If you can find the file in the browser right-click and use Reveal in Finder to see where it is. Do the same for any of the images that you can see. It will give you an idea where the images are supposed to be stored. If you did a direct drop between applications the file will likely still be stored inside the Photos library. That's a real problem because changes made in Photos will break connections to the images in FCP.


FCP doesn't do that any more. It won't leave the file in Photos and the Photos name is only in the stored media not in the application.

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Tom Wolsky
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Oct 20, 2022 2:27 PM in response to sharonfromredondo beach

You dragged the file directly from the Photos interface into FCP and not the Finder? You're really supposed to use the Photos browser in the application to go from Photos to FCP. That long string is at the file's actual name assigned in Photos and pretty meaningless. You can see them if you look inside the Photos library. There's no way to tell what the file name originally is without finding it again in Photos. Are you using iCloud Photos Library (or didn't that exist in Catalina, I can't remember)?


Select the picture in the timeline and press Shift-F. Does it take you to an image in the browser? Or is that black as well? If you can find the file in the browser right-click and use Reveal in Finder to see where it is. Do the same for any of the images that you can see. It will give you an idea where the images are supposed to be stored. If you did a direct drop between applications the file will likely still be stored inside the Photos library. That's a real problem because changes made in Photos will break connections to the images in FCP.


FCP doesn't do that any more. It won't leave the file in Photos and the Photos name is only in the stored media not in the application.

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Oct 20, 2022 1:37 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

macOS Catalina version 10.15.7

Final Cut Pro X version 10.5.4

I dragged photos directly from iPhoto to the time line. All the photo name changed to that strange long name both in the library and photo information section where I can edit video, color, saturation, exposure. Another section contain picture information. I copied and pasted the long name from the Name section. Under that in the information, there is Last Modified, Notes, Video Roles, Audio Roles, Start End Duration, Camera Name, 360 degree projection Mode, and Stereoscopic Mode.

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Oct 20, 2022 3:06 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

You really know this program very well, a master I have to say.

Using shift-F, no name but " -- " shows up, replaced that long name, and revealed the original time taken. Also the choices under Apply Custom Name became all available instead of gray out. But I still do not get the original name therefor still do not know what that picture is.

You are right about directly drop pictures from iPhoto will give problems. I do this because convenience: editing in iPhoto and drop in time line.

Where do I find FCP X library folder for the pictures? Over there I might be able to use paste to find that picture?

Please help.

Thanks a lot for your great help.


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Oct 21, 2022 9:36 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Do you know a way to easily crop a 4:3 photo into 16:1in FCP X?

The reason this time I tried to drop pictures from iPhoto is because its easy photo editing.

Now that smartphone picture quality is catching up with digital camera. I use samsung smartphone 4:3 64M setting and the pictures are great. After cropping to 16:9, it still has over 40M resolution. Direst 16:9 will give me 30M. So I am thinking to take 4:3 64M to crop.

In FCP however, so far I am not able to crop a picture easily to exactly 16:9. Other picture adjustments are good enough in FCP that I can use.

Your help is excellent! Thanks SO very much!!!

Best Regards,

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