• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Transfering data to new drives in middle of a project

  Posted by Brad Mirman on April 28, 2010 at 4:00 pm

  I am going to install 2 internal drives in my Mac Pro and I am not sure what information I will need to copy onto them? I currently have one external firewire 800 with all video, pictures, etc. It is also set as scratch drive for Video. The second firewire drive is set for audio.

  If I load FCP and bring up my project, then select new internal drives as scratch drives will that be okay?

  And if it is, isn’t FCP still using the video files as reference from the external drive? Should I copy the ProRes converted MOV to one of the new internals?

  Thanks

  Brad

  Brad Mirman replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Zane Barker

  April 28, 2010 at 4:19 pm

  Use media manager to move every thing to the new drive.

  Hindsight is always 1080p
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  Sam Ellens

  April 29, 2010 at 8:09 pm

  Media manager move is more risky than just doing a media manager copy then blowing away the original copy.

  Sam Ellens
  Intern – Zamasti Films
  4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

  My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB
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  Zane Barker

  April 29, 2010 at 8:11 pm

  Good call i ment to say copy.

  Hindsight is always 1080p
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  Brad Mirman

  April 29, 2010 at 9:01 pm

  Thanks guys. I bought two internal drives and it worked perfectly.

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