[George Redden]

I’d love someone to answer this very question- it’s driving me nuts. Ever since I moved my scratch disk to my external hard drive, motion can’t find the media files. I’ve been at it forever and am starting to wonder if I need to be computer scientist in order to be a filmmaker.

[George Redden]

I went to the displays and found what you were talking about there, as to the media: I’ve been trying to look and see, but I don’t even know where to look. Obviously something isn’t connected, but I’ve checked the preferences to Motion and FCP but can’t seem to locate the problem. I exported to Soundtrack pro just fine. Maybe Motion’s search path needs to be reset.

[George Redden]

I got it figured out, thanks for the help. I thought that in order to set the scratch disk (this is before I did my research) I needed to “choose” my external drive for more than just the scratch disk tab. Guess I should have read titles like “search folders”.

Anyway my next question has to do with soundtrack pro. When I open my project in soundtrack, effects that I made on audio in FCP don’t show up (changing the speed for instance). Also, I can’t seem to get the work that I’ve done to move back into FCP after I’m finished in soundtrack.