[MacDV] Render File Location

[Jeff Fay]

Carl-

I'm a Final Cut Pro user, so there may be differences between it and FCE 
(I've never used FCE), but my first thought is "have you cleared your 
System drive completely out of the Scratch Disk preferences (not just 
unchecked it)?"

Is your external drive a firewire drive? Or at least a USB 2 drive 
hooked up to a USB 2-speed port?

My one-generation-back-from-the-latest FCP will capture and write 
without incident to my LaCie USB 2 drive when connected to a USB 2 port 
on the computer. It doesn't work (for FCP capture and writing) if it's 
connected to a USB 1.1 port - an older powered USB hub or one of the 
ports on the keyboard.

CFlatow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just joined this list. I have been using FCE for a few months.
> I have a 500GB external drive designated as my render disk for all, 
> yet whenever
> I render,
> FCE creates a new Render folder on my System drive (which does not 
> have enough
> space
> left).
>
> So, when it tells me my drive is full I quit the program, copy the 
> files to my
> big, external
> drive, delete the whole render folder from my System drive and restart 
> it. FCE
> tells me it
> can't find my render files, I show it where they are, reconnect and 
> move along
> to make
> changes and render again.
>
> Unfortunately, the new render files are once again in a brand new 
> folder on my
> System
> drive.
>
> I have checked a dozen times in the System Preferences from within FCE 
> where,
> indeed
> there are checks in the right boxes specifying the large external 
> drive as my
> render drive,
> and, clearly it can talk to that drive since, once I "reconnect" to 
> the files
> I've moved, it
> knows where to find them.
>
> Anyone know what's going on???
>
> TIA,
>
> Carl
>
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