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Why won't my external hard drive show up in the hard drive list in final cut pro 8?

I can't figure out how to get my external hard drive to show up in the list of available drives in final cut pro x. It works just fine in iMovie 11 and every where else on my MacBook pro. The external hard drive I am trying to get to appear is an iomega 1 TB hard drive. Please help as I have a ton of footage on it and don't have the room to move it to my internal drive on the MacBook.

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Posted on Jun 26, 2011 9:44 PM

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Aug 13, 2014 7:11 AM in response to Bondservant88

open up FCx. go to file. go to new. go to library. there it'll ask you where you want to open this new library. your external hard drives will be in the list of places to chose from. chose whichever external hard drive you want. you'll see a library pop up in your events list on the left side of fcx screen. once you establish this new library you can then import whatever to it and it'll be on the external hard drive you selected, and not on your home drive. this is sort of a backdoor way of doing it but I don't know how else. hope this helps

Why won't my external hard drive show up in the hard drive list in final cut pro 8?

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