• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Scratch Disk Question

  Posted by David C jones on August 26, 2010 at 10:51 pm

  Greetings!

  Just got Shane’s, “Getting Organized With FCP” (which is great!)and had a question: My footage is film that will be transferred ast Pro Res 442HQ to a [CalDigit]HD RAID (sorry, no tape transfer first). Should I also use that as my scratch drive or use another RAID, transferring my footage and organizing it to that? Obviously, I don’t want to use the systems internal drive 🙂

  BTW: I’m using a 17″ Mac Book Pro.

  Dave J

  Shane Ross replied 15 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  August 27, 2010 at 12:03 am

  So the only thing that exists is this digital file? If I were you, I’d get CHEAPER drives to then back this footage up onto. Use the Caldigit to edit, but get like G-Raids or Otherworldcomputing.com drives to backup the footage. yeah, the Caldigit is RAID 5. But if this is the ONLY copy…I’m paranoid.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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  David C jones

  August 27, 2010 at 12:54 pm

  Hi Shane!

  Yeah, only digital. It’s a Caldigit VR 2TB RAID. Should I get another one or, like you said, something cheaper like a G-Raid for back up of original footage?

  Thanks again!

  Dave J
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  Shane Ross

  August 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm

  Just a drive to back up the footage. Nothing too expensive.

  Shane

  

  GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
  Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

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