Reconnect Media in FCPX
I’ve been reading a lot about the new Final Cut Pro X and how managing source files and projects can be a bit of a pain. Most notably, that there’s no (logical/easy) way to reconnect media that’s been moved to another drive. It turns out that’s not entirely true.
Say you have an event called Brian Visits Brooklyn on your computer’s internal hard drive, and an associated project called The Moon. The event is huge and you’d like to reclaim the space for your collection of 2011 WWDC session videos. So you connect an external hard drive and drag your source files (your event) to the new hard drive.
Do the same with the project, dragging it to the drive you want and selecting just the project and render files.
Uh-oh, the project is still pointing to the event on your internal drive. That’s no good. So what to do?
Access the project’s properties by choosing File –> Project Properties… from the menu bar, or by pressing Command + J. A new inspector-style window appears with two tabs, Properties and Sharing. Under Properties click the big Modify Event References button. You should see the referenced events on both drives, with the option to drag to the top whichever event you want the project associated with. Click OK and you’re done.
I realize it’s not as robust as it used to be, but it’s a bit more than the nothing I keep reading about.
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