Lost final cut pro x mac os x movie#

I shall keep searching, and when I suss it out, I'll sell the solution to Apple. That's never happened with any previous ('old-fashioned'!) PCs. I'm not massively impressed with either this iMac or FCP, especially when the first iMac worked for almost an hour before it died and had to go back to the store to be replaced. The 'Help' on FCP is quite possibly the worst I have ever encountered, bringing up spurious and random subjects that are completely unconnected to what is requested. but that too seems to have disappeared into the ether. I have spent the entire afternoon searching through every folder, file, hard-drive, drawer, shoe-box and pocket trying to find the original 10.6Gb file. However, that's not really the thing I'm after. I can bring in the FINISHED version, no problem, which does, as everyone says, reside in Movies, inside iTunes (for some strange reason). the bit that was being edited, if you like. This is the one with all the different layers and trimmed clips / events. The one thing I am searching for is the original timeline - the one where all the actual work was carried out. I have access to all the clips, photos, music, sound-effects, etc., required to make up the project, there's no problem with that. I will keep searching for answers, but, from what you've said about the history, I doubt there's going to be a satisfactory solution. If I could get Sony Vegas (13) to work properly and safely on the Mac, that might be an ideal solution. Surely, surely someone at Apple (or whoever knocked FCP together) must know?! And nobody seems to understand, or know where! He intimated that there was some kind of 'time out' function built in to FCP that, because you haven't opened it for 'a certain amount of time', you have therefore finished with it - so it squirrels it away. I have read somewhere a response to someone asking this same question, and the chap asked how long the project had been closed / finished. There doesn't appear to be anything anywhere on the computer that even resembles a file that could be a 'Project'. (I've tried this before on Sony Vegas - which I've used for over ten years - and it never, ever works.) This is what I'm really after, as the changes I want to make are too small to try and do it to the finished version. Access to the Original Timeline / Project. Access to the finished project in both iTunes and FCP.ДЎ.

Access to clips which are still in the EXISTING Library (showing on the left in FCP - although, every time I try again to 'find' the original timeline project, it imports ALL the video clips on the hard-drive, so it's getting incredibly crowded and cluttered in there now!Дў. Thanks for coming back to me so promptly.ДЎ. PS: You didn't indicate whether you looked in any backup libraries.

Lost final cut pro x mac os x movie#

If you're looking for something on the order of 10 GB, you are not looking for project you are looking for a media file вЂ“ like an exported movie file of the type you found in iTunes. not so much.ДЄ Spotlight search looks at a system wide database index (unless specified otherwise in Spotlight Preferences>Privacy) and, no, you don't have to tell it where to look. Projects are easy to locate clip timelines. There are differences between a clip timeline and a project timeline and one difference is particularly acute when projects 'go missing'.

If they are elsewhere, they are non-functional. they live in event folders inside library bundles. These projects are tiny files вЂ“ typically measured in Kbs. It links to actual media files that may either have been imported or generated. (Final Cut's nomenclature is partly unique to FCP вЂ“ not universal by any means.)ДЄ project in FCP X parlance is basically a document with a bunch of edit decisions and a record of the various settings that the user chooses at the start. A few comments on terms that may be helpful.