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Scratch Disc preferences
I was wondering if there is a way to make the scratch disc settings default to be the same as the project folder. In other words, I want to keep all of my media, captures, audio, and everything in the same folder where I am putting my rendered media, audio that I’ve downloaded, etc. I know premiere uses this as its default and its just a much nicer way to keep everything in one place. That way you always know all the files for your project are together. Granted you can do media managers at the end of the project and things like this, but is there an easy way to do what I’ve described above?
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Final Cut Pro > System settings > and click the set button.
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FCP will always keep your capture scratch, audio renders, and video renders in separate folders (which is nice when you want to delete just the render files).
If you want things to be more in a central location, you can create a new folder on your media drive called, for example, “Bestest Project”. Then you open a new project in FCP and change the preferences to put the final cut pro documents folder in that same “Bestest Project” Folder. You can then download your music and whatever else you want in there. There’ll be separate folders inside the Bestest Project folder, but at least it’ll be all media files pertaining to that project.
The HUGE caveat with this is that you must change your FCP preferences every time you open another project. This will get very messy if you forget to change your preferences.
Jeremy
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Thanks guys. I know HOW to change the the FCP scratch disc settings and I do know that if you want to you can change them on a per project basis. I do like the seperate folders that FCP creates, however I wish there was a way to change that setting once and have it stay on (same as project). Therefore if you have something on your raid in the Project A folder it will automatically put all associated, autosaves, waveforms, captures, renders, etc. within subfolders within Project A. Does anyone have any ideas for making it do this universally? So therefore wherever the ProjectA.fcp file lives, so do all these other folders within the same main folder.
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Nope. I forgot to mention that the method described is how you need to do it, you can’t tell FCP to always put all of the folders in a central project folder. Send your feedback to Apple and make a request:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
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Sorry, that’s one of the biggies folks have been asking for for quite awhile. You’re not alone there.
It’s usually called “Scratch Disk follows project”.
If you want to get your 2
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jwedit- I also think its best to let FCP make the folders for you. As mentioned earlier just go to system settings and select your scratch drive and FCP will make a folder inside the scratch folder with your project name on the folder. If it works best for you to have everything in one place then copy outside stuff into that folder then drag and drop them into a bin in FCP.
Hope this helps.
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