Using Two Hard Drives to Save Your Project in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

" Hi this is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, and in this clip I'm going to show you the first part of saving your project. Now before we save the project, an important thing that you need to know is that final cut pro works most efficiently with at least 2 hard drives. That means that you want 1 hard drive to hold the application itself, which is going to be the same hard drive that your operating system is installed on. Then you want a second hard drive to hold all the final cut pro media files like the save files and the audio file, your graphics, your video files, all that stuff on a separate hard drive. That way not one hard drive is being tasked with all the work, because it is a lot of work for this program to process files like that. I would say that the major reason is basically because video takes up a huge amount of space, and you just don't have the space on the same hard drive that you will have your applications. So you want to keep them on a separate hard drive. It is also good to if you decide that you want to hand this project to someone else and you could just hey give them this external hard drive. There you go: now they have the project. So let me show you how to set up where all your save files go to. Go up to final cut pro, and then go down to system settings. Now the system settings are here you have different tabs. You got scratch disk, search folders, memory, play back, external, blah, blah, we are just going to stick to scratch disk. I can go over those other tabs later for you. And your scratch disk is the disk where all the files are saved to, the hard drive that you want to specified for all these files that you can save to. So if you notice below that now you have different selections here. You got video capture, video render, audio render, and this is, just tell where you want to save all these files to. You can separate them between the two hard drives, like have your videos on one hard drive and then the video renders and audio renders on another hard drive. But, we are just going to keep it all the same right now. So to the right here, just click the set button and choose the hard drive that you want to save these files on. So if you have an external, mine is called the Big E Mac 3 sorry Big E Mac 1, I can't read today. Just go ahead and click on that. Now if you don't have a external, you can for right now just go ahead and put it on your internal, the one that has the operating system, if that is the only one that you have. But, go ahead and label it put it on to another hard drive here. Just click and then go ahead and click choose, and you will notice here to the right it now it says 32.3 gigabytes on Big E Mac 1. Okay so that is set. Now look down below here; now you see wav form cache, thumbnail cache, autosave vault. Basically you got more save files and you are just telling them where to go. So put that to the same hard drive. Just click set. Click on the external hard drive. Click set again. Click on the hard drive. Set again. Click on the hard drive, and if you notice now, they are all the same. All three of these are the same, and this one is also the same. "