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I did a bad, bad, thing
I think that how the song goes…
Ok I’m sort of new at FCP have cut some small things with some success ..Now Im working a larger project. I need to delete the old clips on my HD I’m using the internal drive as the scratch drive
If I did not change any of the settings of the capture process ie where the clips are saved how would I find them and delete them…….
DV clips in SD
Thanks
Vince
Intel 24” Imac 3gigs ram FCP 6 I think
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If you open up FCP go to menu under Final Cut Pro> System Settings > hit Set and it will open the window and you can write down the path to your clips. The default is User/Documents/Final Cut Pro Documents.
Never a good idea to be capturing to your internal drive. First thing you should get is an external media drive.
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Michael is absolutely correct. Storing any media on your locate drive will lead to many problems.
As to finding the ‘media’ from a clip, I will right click on the clip in the browser and choose ‘reveal in finder’.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Thanks guys…so editing from the internal drive, will I not be able to do a project this is a wedding. If I capture all the video to the internal drive, then get an external drive can I transfer the video files to the new drive then start my editing?
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It is not a question of will it work, it is a question should I work this way. You can edit with media on the internal HD but things can go wrong really quickly. From drop frames when capturing or playing a sequence to app quitting a lot. If you are using codecs like HDV or DV it is more likely to be okay. But a real problem arises from filling up the internal HD, the fuller it gets the slower it accesses data, full pass 95% and you increase the chances of having a drive failure. So it is always recommended, strongly recommended that media goes on a 2nd drive.
Can you capture and move, yes you can. Performance is better to go to the 2nd drive but if it is working it is working. You can simply copy them over to a new drive afterwards and relink the footage. You can do Media manager also but for full media copying I just do it in the finder.
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If you’re not moving them, just deleting…..highlite all the clips you’re going to trash in the project bin, right click, and select make offline. 3 options will come up. select delete from disk.
Saves from having to hunt them down!
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Thanks Michale…at this point I’m working with DV footage will need to edit and export to DVD studio pro or I DVD will need some simple DVD authoring
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