• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Capture Audio & Video to separate Drives????

  Posted by Ed Stevens on December 2, 2005 at 4:39 pm

  My SYSTEM

  MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
  Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
  FCP 4.5 production Suite
  1 300gig scratch disc
  500GB G-Raid Firewire800
  Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
  Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro
  I believe I have the stock display card
  Panasonic AJD-230H DVCpro deck

  I was wondering. Is it better to capture audio to A separate drive? Say the scratch disk then video on the Raid.
  Need help fast.
  Thanks in advance, ED

  Frank Nolan replied 20 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  December 2, 2005 at 4:43 pm

  Ed, While many other NLEs must have separate audio and video drives, I have always been told that is a no no with FCP.
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  December 2, 2005 at 8:18 pm

  If you are capturing DV footage, then, like David said, it should not be split.
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  Frank Nolan

  December 3, 2005 at 12:17 am

  Ed, what drive is your 300 gb scratch disk? Is that your internal system drive?. The term “scratch disk” is whatever disk you assign in FCP to capture and edit on. If you are using your G-raid then that will be a scratch disk. If your “Scratch disk” is actually your internal drive that has your OSX on, then you should reset your G-Raid to be the scratch disk. Then just capture audio and video together on that.

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