Any easy way to mass reimport media after a hard drive crash if library files are intact?
Hello,
I'm running FCPX 10.2.3 on OS X 10.11.3. My external hard drive just crashed, and while I was able to salvage most everything else (including library files, proxy media, etc.), I'm missing about 90% of about 2,000 "original media" files. Because the library files were saved, it looks like my projects seem to be intact, including cuts and edits. Since FCPX knows which files and portions of files were previously imported, reimporting should be easy... except for the fact that there are about 1,800 clips spread across a couple dozen camera archives.
Is there a way to "mass reimport" them based on where it knows the clips came from, without having to scroll through thousands of clips across dozens of archives and manually clicking each one? Because there's also the fact that due to multiple camera archives being used, tthere are multiple "Clip #1", "Clip #2", etc. which FCP resolves by adding a number at the end (e.g., "Clip #1 (fcp1)" and "Clip #1 (fcp2)"). I'm worried that if I import any in the wrong order (maybe I didn't initially import one clip, but went back later and got it), I'll have to comb through to find a needle in a haystack and rename the files manually.
Even if I have to respecify the locations of those couple dozen archives, that would be so much easier than having to manually go into each one and click 1,800 files... Any suggestions?
Please and thank you!
Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), 2011 Mac Mini, 8GB RAM