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Frickin’ Capture Scratch
SO!
Who else is astounded at the awful way Final Cut Pro manages it’s scratch disks?
What I can’t figure out is why the stupid program doesn’t remember each scratch location for each project (it’s only a meta-tag after all).
How many times have you accidentally forgotten to reset the capture-scratch location between projects and been furious at the consequences.
It’s easy to say ‘you should just be more careful’ but I find it such an obvious feature the program is lacking.
Adobe gets around this with good old fashion COMMON SENSE which Apple severely lack. They store scratch locations in the project file.My question is… Does there exist a plugin for FCP that allows this behaviour? My company has many floating/junior/temp editors some of whom rarely use FCP and aren’t use to this ridiculous feature. Having FCP remember scratch location when opening a project would save me a stomach ulcer.
Help…
:S
-Rohan
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I think you are misunderstanding how FCP manages the media. After you select your capture disk/location, FCP will create a # of folders, one being capture scratch. All the media you capture will be added to the capture scratch folder, in its own subfolder that will have the same name as your project. Whenever you reopen said project, it will look for the media in that location, even if you’ve change the location of your scratch disk. However, if you have changed the scratch disk location between times that you’ve worked on the project, any subsequent footage you capture will be saved to the new location.
If you are using multiple hard drives (not a RAID) as your scratch disk, you’re media may be captured to both drives seemingly arbitrarily. FCP will save each clip to the disk that at the moment has the most available space. For this reason you have the ability to allocate which disk you want to save media to, which for render files, etc.
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What Dennis said. We have a big RAID named as the scratch drive. Each project has its own folder inside capture scratch and the 2 render folders. Every time you work in a project media goes where it’s supposed to go.
Here’s a link to a program that can keep certain prefs attached to projects: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm
John
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[John Fishback] “What Dennis said. We have a big RAID named as the scratch drive.”
Yep, that’s what we do here with all our Scratch Discs. Just select the RAID itself, FCP takes care of the rest. We generally have about 5 projects and 3 different editors all working on a given day and don’t seem to have any issues with media going into the correct place, FCP always selects the proper project file.
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Agreed, unless you’re moving media after you’ve captured it, FCP doesn’t have any problems tracing back to the capture folder. This doesn’t sound like a software error, but a simple matter of a two minute training for the temps / interns / etc. And there is a difference between being careful and being sloppy.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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