how do I Cut The Crap???

[Walter Biscardi]

[Brian Pitt] “My secondary editing machine (a macbook pro) nearly has a full hard drive.”

Including video media? That should never be on that drive. You should have a secondary drive. Any firewire 400 drive will work for DV and related formats.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Paul Escandon]

He never actually mentioned storing media on the system drive – he’s just saying that with applications and OS installs alone he’s running out of space – not an uncommon occurrence for mobile users.

Anyhow – I would recommend this automator action called Maintenance – it can free up space that you’re wasting in temp directories that you might not know about. It’s easy to run and I’ve used it with no problems before: https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/maintenance.html

Peace!

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
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8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

[That’s what I get for not having a laptop, I guess. Is it then standard practice for a laptop to have a separately-partitioned System Drive? I honestly don’t know….]

No actually they just come with one partition like a desktop Mac.

What I was getting at was that all he said was that he’s out of space on his system drive and he never mentioned where he keeps his media or indicated how it got that way other than talking about the OS and applications. Laptop hard drives are usually significantly smaller than desktop hard drives so it’s a lot easier to run out of space with a Final Cut Studio install. I just assumed he would work from an external and if not then he should definitely heed yours and walter’s advice – but that wasn’t the question and it seemed like you were writing it off.

I think that Mainenance automator application is a good start though.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Jeremy Garchow]

HOw big is your drive?

[Boyd Mccollum]

MBPs come with either 120G or 160G hard drives.

I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand that it’s easy to eat up Gigs in a big way WITHOUT media. I have an old G4 Powerbook that has an 80G drive. I had trouble upgrading to FCS with it. It’s all the templates in DVDSP, Motion, and LifeType that take up a lot of space. The themes in iDVD ’08 take 1.77G.

Over the next few days I’m going to be looking to see how I can upgrade it to FCS2, or some paired down version of it. A quick look at the application support shows 10.93G for LifeType and 16.25G for FCS. I’m going to upgrade to Leopard at the same time and that takes 20G. That’s over 60% of my available space, and with no apps actually installed.

On a small drive, memory management, as these apps get bigger and bigger, is an issue.

So for the OP, depending on how much you use them, trash iDVD themes. Do you use Life Type? If not, there’s 10G you can lose. Same with Motion or DVDSP. That’s what I’m looking at doing so I can use my laptop as a remote edit station. Oh yeah, I’ll have an external drive to go with it for media.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Boyd McCollum] “MBPs come with either 120G or 160G hard drives. “

STPro Sounds are the biggest I believe. It’s unreal what they take up. 20 Gigs or something nuts.

My MBP has a 250 Gig drive fwiw.

Wanna get crazy? get this:

https://www.mcetech.com/optibay/

Jeremy

[David Peralta]

Jeremy,

Are you using that 2nd drive for capturing/media files? is it fast enough to handle SD uncompressed???

-DaveP

hmm… I wonder what this button does…

[Jeremy Garchow]

I don’t have one of these, but if my laptop was my only computer, I’d think about it.

ALso, you can install all the ancillary FCP media onto another external drive during installation and load it from there as well.

Jeremy

[Boyd Mccollum]

[Jeremy Garchow] “My MBP has a 250 Gig drive fwiw.”

thanks, I didn’t know that. I just took a quick look at the Apple site at their stock MPB.

I was going to mention those STP loops, but couldn’t find them right off hand on my main edit computer. When I rant, I like to be at least accurate 🙂

I find iTunes takes up huge chunks of space as well.

BTW, is there a way to put the loops, templates, and the like on a separate drive and still have the different apps access them? I haven’t RTFM on this yet, and will, just wondering if anyone knew. If worse came to worse, I guess I could replace the folders with aliases and point them to a different direction.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Boyd McCollum] “BTW, is there a way to put the loops, templates, and the like on a separate drive and still have the different apps access them? I haven’t RTFM on this yet, and will, just wondering if anyone knew. If worse came to worse, I guess I could replace the folders with aliases and point them to a different direction. “

I know you can do it when you are installing the ProApps, so I’d be willing to wager that you can move them off of your boot drive and relink them later. Not 100% on that one, though.

I put in my own 250 Gig drive on my laptop. It was easy, although you have to take the whole damn thing apart to do it.

Jeremy