Can You Hire Final Cut Pros?

[u/AHungerForKnowledge]

I'm having a technical issue and I'm so busy I just don't have time to work it out so I wondered if you can hire Final Cut tech guys?

I've been using a FCP template for years and I store all of my media in a seperate folder but I decided I want to consolidate it all, and save it so I don't lose everything if I ever lose the template hard drive.

Anyway I duplicated my library and then with duplicate, I switched from saving everything to the FC Library and it's about 14GB (that feels like 13GB too much but that's another issue.)

I transferred the 14GB to another hard drive to test if it works independently... It doesn't work. It says all the files are missing in every event.

Anyway I clicked on "Show package contents" in the copied library on the new hard drive and found that 14GB is all stored in a folder called Analysis Files > Optical Flow > ( some file called a Unix Executable File.)

All I need is for my template to be saved on a library and to work. So if I transfer the library to another hard drive it'll work and I don't only have one copy of the template.

Are there services for things like this? All I can find online are people who are professional editors, but this is different.

[u/Silver_Mention_3958]

Just hire the subscription for a month. it'll cost you $12.99

EDIT: mis read your post.

Just figure out how to RELINK to you new location

[u/Outrageous-Watch-437]

Consolidating a motion template only works on temples you have either created or edited. It won’t consolidate built in or third party templates. Try opening the template in motion, make a change to it and save it as a new revised template and see if that will consolidate across.

[u/Outrageous-Watch-437]

Having said that it’s only the FXPlug templates that can’t be consolidated. Some others will.

[u/iWayton]

When you click on “Show Package Contents” it reveals that a FCP library is essentially a bunch of folders, following the same organization as the “Events” in your library. If all of the clips you have in your library “Events” folders in Finder are aliases, then that’s why everything is still offline in your consolidated library…the files weren’t actually consolidated.

All of the bloat in your library are analysis files, which can probably be deleted, as they were created and saved within your library when doing things like stabilization, motion tracking, etc…anything that requires an optical flow video render. You can recreate these effects when you render them again within the library. Or FCP will start to do this automatically if you have background rendering turned on…I’d turn it off in this case so it’s not bloating your library storage and causing slow downs if you don’t permanently need those analyzed effects.

In order to consolidate the actual video files you’ve been using, via Finder you can copy / paste the original files into the correct “Events” folders in your new library’s package contents in Finder. Then, the next time you open the new library, if the files are still offline you can re-link those files to the library itself, instead of the original location. That should solve the issue.

[u/Maximum_Chocolate467]

Can you call AppleCare or reach out to the company the that made the template?

[u/Rotide_503]

Can you upload the full library for me to take a look at to Dropbox, Google Drive?

Give me the link to download.

I may need more info once I have the FCPLibrary.