"Duplicate Project" issues with 10.0.6

Was the media in the original event or was it only linked when it was imported? If it wasn't actually copied into the event, the link will still point to the original location.

Hey sky852.

I'm having the same problem. Have you found a solution?

Best,

Mikael, Denmark

Was the media in the original event or was it only linked when it was imported? If it wasn't actually copied into the event, the link will still point to the original location.

Hey Tom.

Some of the media was in the original event and some media was from other events without being copied.

The point of "Duplicate Project" is to take all media in a project and collect it in one location only - say on a seperate disk so you could work from home. I have done that a lot of times with a lot of different projects in 10.0.5 without problems. In 10.0.6 it makes all the files from both the original event and files from other events into referenced files - that is a new behaviour.

Mikael

In 10.0.6 it makes all the files from both the original event and files from other events into referenced files - that is a new behaviour.

What's new here? If you have material in multiple events it's always done that. Can you give more exact information about the behavior you're seeing and about the media and how it's connected. I'm not seeing a change in behavior, but then maybe I'm not understanding what you're doing or what you're seeing.

Back in the old days - two weeks ago in 10.0.5 - I could duplicate a project and I could be sure of all the files used in the project was actually duplicated to the new location. Now, only reference files are being made on the new location, reference files pointing back to the files on the first harddrive :-I

To make sure there are no references to files on another drive, go to File->Consolidate Files for Event...

This must be a bug. Think about it. Let's say that I got a project with files from 7 different events. My project is just pointing to the media in all the other events. It should be possible to do what the Duplicate Project-function is meant to do: duplicating the project with either all the referenced events copied to a new location or just the used project-clips copied to a new location - regardless of where the files exist in the first place.

I don't think this is a bug. If you think about it, it is the user's choice to copy or not copy the media files into the events. When you copy a project, FCP X simply honors that choice.

But then check out the software's own explanation:

• "Duplicate Project and Referenced Events: Duplicates the project file, any Events referred to by the project file, and all of the media in the referenced Events."

• "Duplicate Project + Used Clips Only: Duplicates the project file and the media files for any clips used in the project."

I really think it is a bug.

Then use feedback to report it.

I already did :)

It depends what you need- the Duplicate project workflow is now set up best for folks working in a shared storage environment where it's not neccesary to duplicate media but just the Projects and Events themselves. So the aliases themselves are duplicated but not the actual media.

If you want to gather all the media together first and then Duplicate off the project use the File>Organize Project Files command. Then Duplicate the Project and copy along with the Organized files. If you have media in many different locations, use the File>Consolidate Media command first, then Duplicate the Project.

Is this new compared to 10.0.5?

Yes.