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new system
howdy,
i have just switched from ye olde pc to the G5 with FCP Studio. i just got a second drive in my computer which i hear i should be storing ALL media on, rather than the main system drive (the sales guy hadn’t told me that one when i bought it). anyway, should even all the “document” files go on the media drive as well? project files, too? thanks for answering these dumb ones…
sincerely,
j. tad newberry
big ya productions
portland, or -
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It’s a good idea to use a “media” drive for just that; video media. Text and photos and work files should be on the boot drive. You can put a back up of your FCP sequence files on the media drive as well. Also, you can move the Live Type and Sound track files to the media drive. They are located in the library -> application support. Also make sure to set your media drive as your capture scratch disk as well. Oh, and I would buy a Fire Wire drive of the capacity of your media drive as a backup to that one as well.
VM
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maybe i did something wrong? most of this seems to be running fine, but when i render a “simple” 6-second motion project on the FCP timeline, it takes 5 minutes! and all it is is a simple font that flashes on, then flashes off. a straight font, with no animation of any kind will render in about 10 seconds.
sincerely,
j. tad newberry
big ya productions
portland, or -
Render out from Motion, and not FCP. Also if you have a slow mac with a low quality graphics card you’ll not get great motion performance.
VM
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