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Hard drive space
I have been capturing my raw footage to an external hard drive to conserve disk space on my main hard drive. The problem is that I am still low on space on my main hard drive. I looked through most of the folders and can’t seem to find any large files. Does FCP (or DVDSP) hide files anywhere that might take up a lot of space like rendered files or anything?
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1) Poke around in your home folder. I think things like auto-saves get put in there. They aren’t huge, but they add up.
2) Also in the home folder look and see if there are render files from before you started using your other drive.
3) Do you use iPhoto? When you erase a photo it goes into the iPhoto trash…not the OS X trash. That has to be emptied out too…otherwise every photo you’ve deleted is still in there.
Those are the 3 obvious ones I can think of.
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By default FCP sets the Scratch disks which include Audio, Capture and a few others to your documents folder. Look for the Final Cut folder in your docs and clean out what you don’t need. Rendered files can all be trashed, but you will have to re-render a project if you open it up again….
Word of caution on external Hard Drives, If it’s a regular ide or eide drive hooked through firewire or usb, I wouldn’t use it to store projects on. I used to do that, on two firewire 500GB EIDE drives, and I lost both of them, along with the data. Get Internal Sata’s or some sort of Raid array…..
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Awesome, thanks for the tips. I will check out my fcp folder.
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