Consolidating the FCPX Library
How to ensure all your media is in the Library
Published: Saturday, May 22, 2021 Last modified: Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024
Some people prefer to reference their media, I prefer to keep all the files for a particular video idea in one place; the FCPX Library. To do this, Select the Library in the left-hand pane and over on the right in Library Properties, click Consolidate.
I run:
for i in *.fcpbundle; do ./test-not-consolidated.sh $i; done
With the bash script test-not-consolidated.sh
:
#!/bin/bash
[[ $1 = *.fcpbundle ]] || exit
for i in ${1}/*/'Original Media'/*
do
test -L "$i" && echo $i needs consolidating
done
To discover which libraries need consolidating. This happens for me largely by accident when I fail to specify “Copy to Library” whilst importing.