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Is it a problem to use FCP while running capture scratch of my computer’s hard drive?
I want to sometimes have the convenience of using FCP and editing a project on the road without shleeping along an external hard drive. I am using a MacBook Pro. If I run FCP and have my files on the hard drive, is that bad for the computer?
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I know this question has been asked before. The quick answer is yes you can use your internal drive as a scratch disc. Don’t blame me if you run into conflicts.
With hard drives being so inexpensive and hard drives being extremely small, there is no reason why you could net bring along a drive such as OWC’s On-the-Go drive.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
wait a minute, its bad to use an internal drive as a scratch disk? Why? I have used a internal Raid 5 array exclusively as a scratch disk for over a year without a problem, should I reconsider? I am on a Mac Pro so I can have the big internal drives, is it different for the Macbooks?
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It’s not a problem to use an internal drive or array as your scratch… It is problematic to use your internal boot drive…as in a laptop….as your scratch disk .
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yes.. it is my boot drive, i have one drive, a Raid 5 array of four 500GB drives, why is this an issue? i have never had a problem before?
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We are talking about using your System Hard drive which has FCP installed on it also being used as your capture scratch. That is a bad idea. You can run into problems.
It is always recommended to use an external Firewire drive (not USB) if you have a laptop, or using an additional SATA Hard Drive, not a partition in your tower. G5 has one available slot, Mac Pro’s have 3.
You can have an internal raid on the Mac Pro. If you modify your G5, it’s possible to have an internal raid there also.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
“We are talking about using your System Hard drive which has FCP installed on it also being used as your capture scratch. That is a bad idea. You can run into problems. ”
what sort of problems? can I capture scratch to an external then copy them over to my main HDD?
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