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In most situations, viewing your backup projects and Events is as simple as connecting
your storage device to Final Cut Pro and locating your backup project or Event in
the Project Library. For more information about locating or viewing your project, see
“Common media management issues” on page 494.
Edit your project on a dierent computer
If you nd yourself in a situation where you need to work on your project and media
les on a dierent computer, you have a variety of options:
 Move the project: You can delete the project from its current location and put it in a
new location. When you move a project, you can move all of the Events used in the
project, all of the clips used in the project, or just the project.
 Copy the project: You can duplicate the project and put the copy in a new location.
When you copy a project, you can copy all of the Events used in the project, all of
the clips used in the project, or just the project.
 Store projects and Events on a SAN location: You can store les on a storage area
network (SAN) location and then access them from the other computer over
the network.
Move a project and its referenced Events to another computer
1 Connect your external storage device to the computer where your Final Cut Pro
project le is located, and verify that the device appears in the Finder.
2 Verify that Final Cut Pro is installed on the computer to which youre moving the les.
3 On the computer where your Final Cut Pro project le is located, select your project in
the Project Library.
4 Choose File > Move Project.
5 In the window that appears, do the following:
a Choose your external storage device from the Location pop-up menu.
b Select “Move Project and Referenced Events.”
Selecting this option moves the project le and any Events (and all the clips in
the Event) referenced by the project le to the disk you chose in the Location
pop-up menu.
For more information about the options in this window, see “Organize projects in
the Project Library on page 98.
c Click OK.
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