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Backing up Final Cut Pro Document to External hard drive
I’m working on a video project. When I began the project, I didn’t have access to an external firewire hard drive, so I set the scratch disk as the boot drive.
Now I have access to an external firewire hard drive, and I’d like to back up my movie. I’m still editing it, and I don’t know the best way to go about backing up my files to the external hard drive.
Should I set a new scratch disk now that I’m halfway through the project? What’s the most secure way to keep a copy of the movie on both hard drives?
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3 Replies
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Well, first off, you should never use your boot drive to capture media – ur just asking for trouble.
Drag the capture scratch folder to the fw drive. Delete the files off the boot drive. Reset scratch.
Re-link media in project.Get another FW drive and back up movie files to it by dragging over the capture scratch folder nightly.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta -
Thanks!
Is the capture scratch the only folder I need to drag over to the fw hard drive? That is, can I leave the render file folders and cache file folders on the boot drive?
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Delete the renders off the boot drive.
Reset scratch drive.
re-render.Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta
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