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Transferring all media to another drive and working off of it? FCP 7
I am trying to Transfer all my media from 2 other drives (Drive A and B). Final cut recognized drive A as my scratch disks. If I put every folder from drive A and B (P2 footage, flip cam footage, DSLR Footage) onto the new drive I want to work on, Drive C, can I reset the Scratch Disks for Drive C and have a painless transfer?
When I tried doing this earlier FCP kept looking for disconnected media on the Drive A and B when I had already brought everything over to Drive C.
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4 Replies
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Nope, you’re going to have to reconnect the media from drive B.
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Yeah, but after transferring and reconnecting everything, AND putting all media on drive C, THEN making drive C my scratch disks, will everything be good to go?
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It helps if you make the structure of the new drive identical so that the path to the media files is the same.
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The “official” or “proper” way to move a project and all of it’s media to another drive is to use the “copy function” of Media Manager. Relinking is completely unnecessary using MM, and it does what computers do best, i.e. rounding up everything that used in in of the bins and sequences you, the user, select.
Read the part of the manual deal with Media Manager first…
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