Scratch Disk

[Russell Lasson]

[RJ] “Is there any way to have FCP ask for scratch disk settings on start up?”

Delete your preferences every time you want to open FCP. Not suggested.

Capture scratch location is based on user settings, not by project. Maybe someone would write a script that when you open a project, it copies preferences associated to that project into the preferences folder.

I can see the advantages of having it go to one folder, but it would be nice to be able to decide how it works in the preferences folder.

-Russ

[Andy Mees]

always unmount the previous media drive (scratch disc location) prior to starting FCP, then it’ll ask you to set a new one … you could write an FCP launch script to do this but it seems a bit unrealistic

[Rj Miles]

Thanks Guys

My short term option has been to turn off the automatic launching of the “most recent project” on FCP start up.

Currently, when I launch FCP I manually select the scratch drive folder for an existing project, or I create a NEW folder and then select it.

Perhaps this project work flow is not what FCP had in mind, as they would have me maintain a single FCP scratch disc folder, where all projects break out accordingly in their various FCP sub-folders.

Thanks again for the posts.

[Darryl Thomson]

How do you choose a scratch disk folder? I can only set the scratch disk to a disk.

Dazzer