Confused by consolidate

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Confused by consolidate

OK, so I wanted to archive my project into a single folder, which the director is going to bring a HD and we are going to copy everything off my system,

The folder with everything in it is called BLT so I created another folder celled BLT_Archive and copied the main library to it (I called it BLT_consolidated).

I opened the library, I then made sure everything it is set up so everything is in the library and consolidated.

What then happened is all the media was copied into a folder in the BLT directory (the directory with the original library, not BLT_Archive where I have the new BLT_Consolidated library) called 'Final Cut Original Media'. So now I have.

BLT/BLT <- original project

BLT/Final Cut Original Media <- all the media

and

BLT_Archive/BLT_Consolidate <- new consolidated project.

I don't understand why, I thought it was meant to copy everything into BLT_Consolidate, or at least if it was going to create a 'Final Cut Original Media' directory it would be in the same folder as the BLT_Consolidated library (i.e. BLT_Archive) that I am consolidating.

I could probably move the Final Cut Original Media folder into BLT_Arcive and relink the media but I really don't want to screw it up (and relinking could be a nightmare).

so what's going on and what do I need to do, its all very confusing and stressful :-(.

Ben

Posted on May 5, 2016 1:23 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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May 5, 2016 2:08 PM in response to funkytwig

WWhen you make a new library it uses the last assigned location for the media. After you create the consolidated library, before you consolidate, you have to go to library properties and assign the location you want the nedia to be sent to.

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funkytwig Author

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May 5, 2016 2:27 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks, is there a easy (or even not so easy) way of moving the original media to the new directory.

As an aside did not create a new library as such, I simply copied it (I wanted to create the original in case a messed it up as it is the first time I have done this).

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Tom Wolsky

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May 5, 2016 3:07 PM in response to funkytwig

YYou can't move it. It has to copy. OTH if it's on the same drive it will use hard links. Once the files are copied you can delete the old files if you don't want them.

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Answer 4

May 6, 2016 6:49 AM in response to funkytwig

funkytwig wrote:

Thanks, is there a easy (or even not so easy) way of moving the original media to the new directory.

As an aside did not create a new library as such, I simply copied it (I wanted to create the original in case a messed it up as it is the first time I have done this).

Yes, there is.

Select the library, click the Modify Settings, choose the desired locations, Consolidate.

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