Apple Final Cut Express HD Uživatelský manuál stáhnout pdf (Strana 2)

Scratch Disk setting (System Settings from the Final Cut Express menu). is will be described again in

the next section.

Remember, you project ﬁle keeps track of what goes where and how things are arranged, but it does not

contain the actual media. at’s what lives in the Capture Scratch folder. And the location of ‘Capture

Scratch’ is determined by System Settings. Yea, Final Cut Express media management is a little complicated

at ﬁrst. Hang in there.

Set system settings

Setting scratch disk(s) is done in order to tell Final Cut where to store certain ﬁles. For instance, when you

capture video, you can set Final Cut Express to store the raw clips in a certain location. To view scratch disk

settings, choose Final Cut Express > System Settings. Final Cut Express, by default, stores captured media in

a folder called ‘Capture Scratch’ in a folder called ‘Final Cut Express Documents’ in your user document

folder, which you can change with this setting window. e location of this folder is determined by the

System Settings. Since you’re working in a shared laboratory environment, you should change the system

settings to point to a folder on

your external hard drive. Set

this to point to your project

folder. You will then see Final

Cut Express create folders with

names like “Capture Scratch”

and “Render Files” in the folder

you specify.

Always check System Settings

when you ﬁrst launch Final

Cut Express and make sure you

know what this is set to.

Choose Final Cut Pro > System

Settings If the settings map

‘Capture Scratch’ to a disk

volume (this is determined by

the volume associated with the

check boxes for Video Capture

and Audio Capture) then it will exist at the top level of that ﬁle volume rather than the ‘Final Cut Express

Documents’ folder or a project folder you designate.

Notice that there are scratch disks for video, audio and render ﬁles, waveform cache, thumbnail cache, and

auto save vault. By default, these are set to the 'Final Cut Pro Documents' folder in your Documents folder

(created when the program is installed), within which the program creates a separate folder for each of the

scratch disk items. Eliminating scratch disk materials (i.e., captured ﬁles in the Capture Scratch folder) in a

project will cause Final Cut to not to be able to ﬁnd them, resulting in loss of data. Never remove scratch

disk materials until you are ﬁnished with your project, and then, you might want to

back up the media.

Be really careful not work on your project before checking the System Settings if

you share a workstation with other people, or use it for multiple projects in which

you are putting diﬀerent projects on diﬀerent hard drives. You want to make sure

everything you capture ends up in the right capture scratch folder.

Set user preferences

Final Cut Express lets you adjust many of the things it does and how it does them.

One preference you will want to change right away is the time between “autosaves”

as well as the level of undos. Check it out now.

Starting a new project

When you launch Final Cut, a new project will be created. Before you do anything

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Before starting work

always make sure

that the Scratch Disk Settings

are set to point to your

external hard drive. If the

scratch disk settings are

pointing to the internal hard

drive and you capture video,

all of the video might be lost

since who knows what can

happen on a lab machine. Get

into the habit of checking

these settings every time you

start up Final Cut Express,

otherwise, you may lose

critical data.

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