Need help organising my disks

[Shane Ross]

Well, I will be a salesman and say “hey, I have a tutorial DVD FULL of tips on how to organize footage for FCP, both on the Finder level and in the project. That can be found here:”

https://store.creativecow.net/p/63/getting_organized_in_final_cut_pro

Now I will help with some of the small specifics you ask.

[Roli Rivelino] “So on my 2nd drive outside of my Final Cut Documents folder I have a capture scratch folder, with some old files in it; can I move these files and delete the folder? “

Consolidate all of your media for each project to one folder. The CAPTURED media. Then when you open FCP, reconnect to that media…you can even tell FCP to search for the media ONLY in that location. But what I’d do is copy the media, leave the originals alone, but disconnect the drive. Don’t delete until you are sure everything reconnects. Same with REnders.

[Roli Rivelino] ”
Also outside the FCD folder I have a Waveform cache folder, audio render files and auto save files folders, all of which are empty; can I delete all these folders? “

IF they are empty….sure, why not?

[Roli Rivelino] “Lastly I have a thumbnail cache folder, containing 2 old files and a render files folder containing a constant frames folder with some old files in it? Can I move/delete the files then delete these folders? “

Sure. If some renders go missing, all you need to do is re-render.

[Roli Rivelino] “Moving to my boot drive now I have a Final Cut Pro Documents folder contaning all the same folders as above, most of them contain (old) files, especially the waveform cache folder which has a number of files in. “

Leave the AUTOSAVE, and CACHE folders ALONE. Those are you main folders for such things. They should be there. All the CAPTURES should be on the separate drive, but the cache and autosave should be on the main system drive.

Now get my DVD so that you know how FCP organizes things, so that you also have a better grasp of how to do it yourself.

Shane

GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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[Roli Rivelino]

Excellent Shane, as ever concise and clear, I think I might just get that DVD of yours 🙂

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[David Roth weiss]

Shane’s DVD is terrific, however, at this point you should use Media Manager to copy everything in your current project that you select to a new directory on your new drive. It also creates a new project when it does this BTW. This allows the computer to do the work for you and it avoids human error. Read up on it in the manual. It does have the nasty habit of moving all files to a single directory, but it gathers everything, and it’s a whole lot better than having them spread all over. Once they are in a single place you can then use Shane’s organizational techniques.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Roli Rivelino]

Wise words, which I’ll heed, thank you.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Luis Sepulveda]

I also needed this. Very Helpful indeed. Thanks.

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