• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Render files – now you see them, now you don’t

  Posted by Niklas Wikman on February 8, 2013 at 12:52 pm

  I believe this is a topic well known to you FCP guys.

  I have a number of projects that resides on one project disk.

  As long as the disk is connected to the same computer, it all seems intact. But sure, every now and then I can close the project and when I re-open (the next day or so) my render files are lost.

  And they are sure lost when I move the disk to another computer. (Sure, I have set the Scratch disk in System Settings, even prior to opening the project).

  Do you guys have any idea why this is happening? It’s quite tedious having to re-render all the time…

  Any tips/suggestions/solutions are greatly appreciated!

  Niklas Wikman replied 13 years, 6 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Niklas Wikman

  February 9, 2013 at 12:25 pm

  I have all the “items” set to the (root) disk.

  The media files never gets lost, only the render files.
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  Niklas Wikman

  February 11, 2013 at 7:31 am

  Hi David,

  Every time I launch FCP and have changed the project disk, I set the scratch disk to the root folder of the project disk.

  In FCP, the root of the disk is set for the following items:

  Video capture
  Audio capture
  Audio render
  Video Render

  My project disks are mostly formatted as Mac OS Extended, non-journaled.

  When using the disk and rendering, I do see the render files, located in /Audio render files/project name and /Render files/project name

  Sometime, when moving a disk from one computer to another, FCP complains about missing render files. Then I check, and the render folders are there, but they are empty. Not sure why this happens.

  But mostly, the render files are there, but when doing a search/locate, FCP seems to be looking for other file names than the existing render files.

  What can I do further to solve this?

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