• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  mysterious AV files that make your hard drive space vanish and other problems

  Posted by Wreck Gar on November 26, 2005 at 5:31 pm

  I’ve read many posts in here about strange problems with FCP crashing, or taking up too much space.

  This has happened to me 2 times before. After trashing prefs and user data, the problem still existed. I was able to open up the “Capture Scratch” folder and look at all the files I captured. There were 1 or 2 files in there that were duplicates . . except they had the extention like this (for example’s sake I’ll name the video files WreckGar):

  WreckGar1
  WreckGar2
  WreckGar1-av
  WreckGar2-av

  Those duplicate -av files were funky and were what was causing all of my problems. I simply deleted them, and all my problems were over. Has this happened to anybody else? The main problems they cause for me was making my hard drive think it only had 2 MB of space left.

  Shane Ross replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shane Ross

  November 27, 2005 at 9:56 am

  #10 Capture now makes large file, Beachball

  Shane’s Stock Answer #10

  1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Never have that box unchecked. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.

  2) Do not under any circumstances run any anti-virus/filesaver software. Including Norton and Virex. Sure, Apple doles out Virex for free, but FCP doesn’t cooperate with it very well.

  If you absolutely feel you must keep Virex installed on your system then use Kevin’s script to shut it off before you use FCP:
  https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@85.zPgDaaNeQzT.323013@.68a85d17

  3) Do not capture to your main system drive.

  4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mas OS Extended, jornalling off. If it isn’t, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.

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