[MacDV] Final Cut Express cache files

[Steve Robertson]

On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 05:42  PM, Russ Weitz wrote:

> My son is using FCE to capture some MiniDV tapes to disk, but the 
> program is storing cache files on the main drive. How do I get it to 
> store the stuff on my 120GB third drive where I let him work on stuff.
>

He needs to go into the preferences and identify that third drive as a 
scratch disk. But I've had some strange things happen in this area. On 
my iMac 800 MHz, I have to check the scratch disk list at the start of 
every project. There seems to be some situations where the scratch disk 
list reverts to the default of listing only my internal drive. And on 
the last project, the captured video was split between internal and 
external drives. The manual says that FCE automatically sends captured 
video to whichever scratch disk has the most space available. I 
suppose, if your external drive is getting full, FCE might switch back 
to the internal.

Steve R.