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moving scratch drive material.
Hi have a problem. I am annoyed with myself for not setting scratch drive properly on early projects.
I have released I have been captured some early projects to my primary drive not secondary or external 1TB drive as I do now. I have been taxing my primary drive as it has scratch material and FCP applications. I have long since changed my scratch drives.
I want to move the earlier captured project files, renders etc to the other two drives to undo load on primary drive and keep it for applications only.
How risky is it to move those capture files, renders on primary drive. I still use those files in FCP projects so can’t delete them or lose them.
Advise, tips on moving scratch material thats still used in current FCP projects to another storage drive.
Any advise really really appreciated. I really want to clean up the primary drive.
Ham
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Ham- My recommendation is to make a folder on your primary (system) drive for FCP PROJECT files (not media/render files). They are small so back them up on a jump drive (especially after a long day of editing.)
Now, to relocate those huge (pesky) media files. First make sure you’ve quit the FCP application.
Now drag and drop all the capture scratch files that are still remaining on your system drive into the FCP capture scratch folder on your 1 TB scratch drive. Spot check the transferred media files with quicktime to make sure they transferred and play properly. If they’re OK drag the original media files you have copied from your system drive to the trash.
Launch the FCP projects that had the misplaced media. FCP will launch a dialog box telling you files are missing. Select the search button and the application will usually find the new copied files with the same name. And when it finds the first one and you say OK it should automatically connect the rest of the missing files for that project. Reconnect the media for each active project where you have relocated media.
Once all the media is connected and your project sequences and clips are playing properly SAVE and close out of FCP and empty your trash. You are done.
I use my secondary internal SATA drive for storing graphic/music files that I re-use a lot or for large graphic files from recent projects.
Hope this helps,
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1 -
Ham- My recommendation is to make a folder on your primary (system) drive for FCP PROJECT files (not media/render files). They are small so back them up on a jump drive (especially after a long day of editing.)
Now, to relocate those huge (pesky) media files. First make sure you’ve quit the FCP application.
Now drag and drop all the capture scratch files that are still remaining on your system drive into the FCP capture scratch folder on your 1 TB scratch drive. Spot check the transferred media files with quicktime to make sure they transferred and play properly. If they’re OK drag the original media files you have copied from your system drive to the trash.
Launch the FCP projects that had the misplaced media. FCP will launch a dialog box telling you files are missing. Select the search button and the application will usually find the new copied files with the same name. And when it finds the first one and you say OK it should automatically connect the rest of the missing files for that project. Reconnect the media for each active project where you have relocated media.
Once all the media is connected and your project sequences and clips are playing properly SAVE and close out of FCP and empty your trash. You are done.
I use my secondary internal SATA drive for storing graphic/music files that I re-use a lot or for large graphic files from recent projects.
Hope this helps,
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
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