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Scratch Disk Management
I have to keep several projects active at the same time, and I’ve found that my capture scratch disk is filling up fast (I have 2x 750GB disks in RAID 0 on Mac Pro, and edit mostly DVCPro HD using FCP 5.1.4, but I just bought the FCS2 upgrade). I still have more footage to capture, so I’m looking for advice on how to handle this.
I thought about adding another scratch drive, but then the projects would have clips on 2 different scratch disks. (Maybe this situation is ok?)
Or I can use Media Manager and move all the media files from each project to its own folder, off of the scratch drive. But then when I capture new footage, it will still go in the scratch drive. Is it possible to move the new footage to the project folder without having to re-link each clip? (I used to edit with Adobe Premiere, which allowed you to set the capture and render folders for each project. I wish FCP had this feature.)
Or should I just bite the bullet and buy a large external storage box, and not worry about filling up the disks for a few more months?
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Any of your scenarios will work… FCP does manage captures though… all captures in any given project will go to a folder on your scratch disk named the same as the project file. If you change scratch disks, another folder is created for each project you put media there for too.
I’d not worry a bit about spreading media from a single project across many different drives or raids. I need to do this all the time around here, and it’s never caused a problem.
Jerry
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