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Bug? FCP placing capture and render dirs inside the app package?
Hi.
I noticed this first on my MBP, because the disk was filling up in a weird way.
I managed to track it down to FCP which had placed capture, render & still-frame folders inside the app package inside the Mac OS dir.
I doublechecked on my G5 and… Hey, the same dirs was there.
I’ve also seen some strange “proxy-background rendering” happening to my projects, lately and I guess this is connected.
Or is it just a bug?Anyone else seen this?
My FCP app all of a sudden weighed in at tenfolds gigabyte -;)And for the record:
I always change my scratch location when I swap projects/disks.Cheers!
Gunleik
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So are you saying that FCP is putting your capture scratch folders in a place OTHER than where you selected?
If so… trash your prefs and see if it improves.
I have never heard of the problem of FCP recording video to a directory other than what the user specified.
-Todd Beabout
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Render files are the ones being placed there.
I’ll trash my prefs, but it’s fun that it happened on one g5 and one Intel here…
Gunleik
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[Gunleik Groven] “Render files are the ones being placed there.
I’ll trash my prefs, but it’s fun that it happened on one g5 and one Intel here…”
When you trash your preferences, FCP automatically reverts the Capture Scratch / Render Files / Audio Render files to the same hard drive as the app resides. You have to manually re-set all your media drives each time you trash your prefs.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Yep, and I’ve got feedback from others with the same symptom, too.
As I go from project to project quite frequently (as a lot of others, too – I know) I change scratch disk each time, to keep all project data in the same place.
Fun thing about this syndrom is that it overrides this.
seems like FCP makes thing easier for me with some kind of internal proxy rendering.
Gunleik
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[Gunleik Groven] “Yep, and I’ve got feedback from others with the same symptom, too.
As I go from project to project quite frequently (as a lot of others, too – I know) I change scratch disk each time, to keep all project data in the same place.”
I have three systems here and work with others and have never seen this in any of them. Only trashing the prefs resets the scratch disks to the internal drive.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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