Color & external hard drive

Hi,
I have Final Cut Pro set for external hard drives but for the life of me I cannot get color to do the same. I see all my applications, desktop but I cannot see my LaCie external hard drives. How do I set color to go there?
Hope this makes sense!
Thanks
Mark

COLOR uses a UNIX-style dialogue for navigating paths. You set your default project, render, etc., targets in the User Preference tab of the Setup Room. Click on the folder icon to the left of the path descriptor and you will start making your way up to the root, and then you will eventually be able to select Volumes and then make your way to where you want to go.
You also need to set a path in the Project Settings tab in the same way to define a target directory for the specific project. You must do this PRIOR to loading the RenderQueue, as the target directory is created when media is added to the queue. Changing it afterward will confuse the XML export and you will wind up with a blank sequence, and likely the wrong render format, since that needs to be defined at the same time as setting up the target render directory.
Does this answer make sense relative to your question?
jPo

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