How do I prevent media import dialogue box opening automatically on inserting media card?

I don't see that behavior in my mac.

What application opens when you connect a device (like a camera or iphone) can be set with Image Capture.

Ty opening Image Capture and inserting a card. At the bottom left you may see something like the image below - except that it will likely read "Final Cut Pro". Set it to "no application".

Theses settings sometimes don't stick - particularly if you haven't used Image Capture before - as a lot of people don't even know they have it.

Even today someone at macintouch had a similar problem (only with iPhoto), and he also had it set to "no application".

Setting it to iPhoto and then back to "no application" cleared the problem for him. It may work for you as well.

Tom, I see your point. For some reason, I don't have this "feature". I just connected both an SD card and my iPhone to make sure I was not imagining things. Neither of them made FCP X's import window to come up automatically.

Hey Luis. I have a somewhat different experience. Connecting an iPhone does not open the import window. But inserting a card into my card reader or connecting a camera by USB does automatically open it. Never noticed any of this before. Of course, hitting Command-i will close the window)

Russ

Arsenal1199 wrote:

I know I'm not the only one with this issue - but can't find a solution anywhere. I have FCPX open pretty much permanently (it's what I work on), but occasionally I will insert an SD or CF card in to my machine to work on something else, but FCPX automatically brings itself to the front and opens up a media import box, even though I don't want to do anything with FCPX with the media on these cards: how do I stop FCPX from doing this - it is a right pain! Cheers.

Last time this was asked I don't believe a solution was found.

Making a feature request to have this switched on or off is a good idea otherwise as Russ suggests, Command-I as a quick toggle off.

Al

This drives me nuts. Mostly because FCPX also won't let me unmount SD cards if I import files from them, so I end up having to cancel the automatic import dialog "feature", copy to desktop, then import from there. It's 2016 not 1998. This sort of glitch shouldn't happen.

I concur with the part about the automatic launching of the import window being a nuisance. One should at least have a preference setting to disable this, as others have written in this thread.

As to not being able to unmount the cards after an import, I do not have this experience - only thing that comes to mind is that perhaps FCP X is still importing in the background, in which case it would make sense not to unmount.

So it's 2017 and this is STILL an issue. I have a Sony RX100V and I want to use the Sony app to import as it nicely puts them all in folders according to date. FCPX will ALWAYS pop up and there still doesn't seem to be a preference for stopping it. It's really annoying. I have to close FCPX window and switch back to the Sony import app. Waste of time and just not appropriate for FCPX to force itself as though it's the only way I could possibly ever want to import movie files. It's very arrogant of the FCPX devs.

IIt isn't that FCP launches; it doesn't. It's that when FCP is open it always launches the import window when a card is loaded into the computer. This is a "feature" of the application. There needs to be a preference to turn this off, perhaps a switch in the import window itself as there is to close or leave open the window after importing.

UUse feedback to make a feature request for a preference.

FCPX is running.

Plugging in my iPhone immediately launches iTunes.