problem Final Cut Pro x

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problem Final Cut Pro x

Hello , I have the last version of Final Cut Pro x. When I have finished my video editing , I Go In the files menu, "share ", "export file", a window open itself , I click on " next " until obtain "save as window " and now here comes my problem : i can see my external hdd but I cannot dévelop to choose an existing folder . i only can record it In the root. And it is the same with a folder created on my desktop .

Is There someone who could Help me?

thanks

for information, I have Yosemite , the last version

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on May 27, 2015 4:22 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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May 27, 2015 5:12 AM in response to lolo29260

HHow is the drive formatted? What are the read/write permissible bs for the drive and its content? Can you make a new folder? Is it a Time Machine?

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Russ H

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May 27, 2015 5:18 AM in response to lolo29260

If you save it at the root level, can you then create a folder in the Finder and move the file to it?

lolo29260 wrote:

And it is the same with a folder created on my desktop

Afraid I don't understand what this means, Can you explain in different terms?

Russ

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lolo29260 Author

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May 27, 2015 10:02 AM in response to Russ H

hello,

thanks for your response. Yes I can save my export file on the root directory of my external hdd ; then in this hdd, I can create a folder from finder and drag and drop my file in another folder which is in my external hdd; but it is not the better solution. I should be able to do it from Final Cut directly, in the folder desired.

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lolo29260 Author

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May 27, 2015 10:07 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

hello,

thanks for your response

My external hdd is formatted to exfat format and the internal hdd is certainly formatted in Nfs .

The permissions read/write belong g to me because I am the creator of the folder.

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Tom Wolsky

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May 27, 2015 10:13 AM in response to lolo29260

TThe internal drive? Do you mean the system drive or something else? The system drive be needs to be Mac OS extended.

I Don't mean read/write for the folder; I mean read/write for the drive and all its contents.

IF you can't create a new folder from inside FCP there is a permissions problem.

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lolo29260 Author

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May 27, 2015 10:24 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Yes, exactly, I talk about the drive system. However, I don't know how to do the manipulation concerning read/write for the drive and all its contents.

Could you help me to do the manipulation please?

thanks a lot

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May 27, 2015 10:48 AM in response to lolo29260

If you can manually create folders in the Finder and move your files there, there is no permissions problem on the drive itself.

What exactly happens when you try to save to a given folder or to create a folder in the save dialog from FCP X? If possible, post a screenshot of what you see, including any alert that pops up.

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Stangg

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May 27, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I do think the problem here is what you suggested already. The external HDD is formatted exFAT.

Lolo,

Final Cut Pro X (and Photos and any other software that works with libraries) can only write libraries to an Apple HFS formatted disk. This is so because the libraries use versioning/journaling of the filesystem.

Solutions:

1) Reformat your external HDD to HFS Journaled (it cannot be accessed from non Mac then, unless you buy extra software)

2) Create a sparse disk image on the HDD using the Disk Utility, and then mount that disk image. See this link: http://www.it-guy.com/2015/01/archiving-projects-final-cut-pro-10-1-4/

Hope that helps,

Stangg

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Tom Wolsky

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May 27, 2015 2:11 PM in response to lolo29260

IUnfortunately you can't alter permissions on an ExFAT drive from OS X. But if you have your system installed on a non-Mac OS formatted drive you have major problems that you need to address before you go forward.

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