[MacDV] Render File Location

[CFlatow]

Jeff,

To answer your two questions-

1) No, the system disk is not listed at all. So, this is not exactly a  
controlled experiment since there are other variables,
BUT
I added the system drive to the System Settings (since the other way  
wasn't working too well) and did NOT check any of the boxes, and
I started a new sequence in an old project I had been meaning to get  
to and guess what??!!
It rendered to the big external drive it was supposed to render to!!!!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

2) It's a Firewire drive.

Carl



On May 12, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Jeff Fay wrote:

> 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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