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Can’t capture when using a second external hard drive!! Help!
Hi, I have been capturing to a 150 GB HD and have almost run out of space, so I’m trying to capture to a second drive now (250 GB) and I keep getting an error when I’m batch capturing, it says make sure that Audio and Video settings are the same in the preferences, but they are GD it!! Please help me figure this out, thanks.
Jon -
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Jonathan- From your info I see no EXTERNAL drives. You say your 150 GB drive is almost full and you are going to your other drive. Does this mean you are trying to capture video and audio to your SYSTEM drive!? If so its a major no no. FCP rule #1: Never digitize media to your system drive.
Your solutions are; 1. dump old media off your 150 drive to clear out space and re-set it as your scratch drive. 2. Plug in a fast external firewire drive (if you are doing DV). 3. Install a pci card and build an external raid.
Hope this helps.
Jerry -
No man, the external drive, the first one I’ve been using, is a 150 GB!
I’m not capturing to my system, I’m not an idiot.
So I need a real answer. What is the best way to share data on two external drives when working on a project, and how do I set my scratch disks accordingly to avoid any problems?
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I Assume that you’ve set this new drive as a scratch disk in your prefs, right?
Is this drive properly initialized with HFS+ AKA Mac OS Extended?Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com
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