prepping drive for FCP project?

[David Roth weiss]

[Winnie Cheung] “Is there anything else that should be on the drive besides the FCP project and capture scratch folder?”

Winnie,

The drive you are prepping is typically called the “media drive,” and for good reason, because that’s what goes there. The FCP project file should not go on that drive, it should reside on the system drive.

Do you know to format the drive as Mac Extended?

David Roth Weiss
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[Winnie Cheung]

Hi David,

I am sending this drive to an editor who is working from his home.

Winnie

[David Roth weiss]

[Winnie Cheung] “I am sending this drive to an editor who is working from his home. “

Oh, so that’s why you want to put the project file onboard.

Your best bet is always to use the Media Manager “copy” function for that purpose. It copies all necessary files from the present job to a specified hard drive and creates a new project and copies that to the hard drive as well. And, no relinking is necessary.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Winnie Cheung]

perfect. that answers everything. that you so much David.

[David Roth weiss]

Anytime Winnie… It’s always good to hear back that the message helped.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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