How to change the date in media browser?

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How to change the date in media browser?

I had to take some extra steps to get this media into FCPX -- because of these extra steps, the date the footage was actually shot has been changed to the date (today) that I had to do some extra transcoding to the footage. I want to change files under 'June 3, 2016' to either 'May 26, 2016', 'May 27, 2016', etc.How do I manually change this date in media browser or move the files to their appropriate date? Please see screenshot. Thanks in advance. Cheers.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MacBook Pro early 2011

Posted on Jun 3, 2016 6:15 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Jun 3, 2016 6:25 PM in response to Cotton123

UUse Modify>Adjust content created date and time

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Cotton123 Author

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Jun 3, 2016 9:11 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I selected footage and clicked Modify>Adjust Content Created Date and Time and simply got a a beeping noise without anything else...

Any ideas?

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 3, 2016 10:57 PM in response to Cotton123

PPost a screenshot of the browser with the selection.

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Cotton123 Author

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Jun 4, 2016 6:55 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

You were right with the first post -- I was trying to adjust the date for every clip under the date by simply selecting the date. I see now that I have to individually do it. Thank you for helping me out!

For multiple reasons, I do wish there was a way to link the footage with that of the original metadata (when the footage was actually shot). If anyone knows how to do this, I would be curious to hear.

Cheers.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 4, 2016 6:55 AM in response to Cotton123

Could you describe the extra steps taken that you mention in the first message? Very likely they stripped off the metadata. If a conversion was involved there is no way to link to a different format with different specifications.

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Cotton123 Author

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Jun 4, 2016 6:54 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

It was a conversion -- I had to convert MTS files to .mov files in Quicktime to get them to load into FCP X (v. 10.2.3). You answered that question. I'll take extra steps to avoid this issue in the future.

My camera is a Sony A7R and the codec (wrapped AVCHD) is a bit frustrating when trying to organize your own raw files and working within FCP X.

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Tom Wolsky

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Jun 4, 2016 7:02 AM in response to Cotton123

Why do you have .mts files? If you import AVCHD correctly from the media or from a camera archive, the media ingests directly into FCP and is rewrapped without changing the content while maintaining all metadata.

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