Capture scratch to follow project?

[Debe]

That’s been on the wishlist since the early days.

If you’d like to submit a request to Apple via their feedback page on their website, that might help a little, but in the meantime, it’s a manual process. Might be worth it to put a postit or tape a note somewhere to remind yourself.

debe

[Cory Mckechnie]

One way to avoid rendering to unwanted places is to set your Capture Scratch and Audio/Video Renders to the root of a drive and then captures and renders will automatically be placed in the appropriate folder based on the projects name.

For example, if set to a root of a drive, 3 directories will be created on that drive: Capture Scratch, Video Renders, Audio Renders. Then, you start a new project and save it as “Test Project” and capture material, a new directory called “Test Project” will be created in the Capture Scratch directory on the root of the drive. Same thing goes for renders when you do them.

Cory

[Ron Dylewski]

Guys –

Thanks for the help. Seems like a simple enough thing for Apple to fix. I’ll look for it in the next upgrade! In the meantime, I’ll use the highly technical analog PostIt fix…

Ron

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[Frank Nolan]

Just to add to what Cory said. Many people run into this problem because they manually create folders in the scratch disk settings. All you need to do is select a drive and FCP automatically creates folders for each project. That way each time you open a different project there is no need to reset the scratch disk folders as FCP will know where to put any new render files or new footage you capture while working in that project. I too had been caught with that problem until I just started selecting a drive instead of making my own folders to put projects in.

[Bret Williams]

I think he’s pointing out that with removable drives, even that method becomes problematic. You digitize and render to a drive for one project, begin another, and then remove the drive, taking both projects with it.

Since version 1 people have been asking for this. And apparently, it is not a simple fix. Sure seems like it would be.

[Ron Dylewski]

Yes, it was the issue of removables that gets me into trouble…

Thanks

Ron

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[Michael Peele]

Yeah, capture scratch should be a “project setting” and not a “system setting”.
This would also help when cleaning up – if there is linking to media in another project – media manager would automatically “know” that a piece of media actually originated in another project and could warn you before you make it offline.
Maybe we should create a real petition, a list of 5 or 10 essential features or bugs for apple to look into. I imagine we would at least get a response if we had a 1000 FCP user clamoring for a new capture scratch setting.
Mike Peele