Insuffiecient dis space remaining in the Capture Scratch message.

Adding insult to injury, I'm now getting the message, "Insuffiecient dis space remaining in the Capture Scratch" when I try to capture a clip which is 00:03:47:00. I have more than 700 gig available on the external drive, which is where my capture scratch resides.
Wouldn't it be great to get over this hurdle, so I can get on with my day.
DG

Figured it out. I had typed 1000000 in the minimun open space field. I'm still saving for the external drive.
DG

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HELP! "Insufficient Disk Space Remaining in the Capture Scratch"?!

Please Help Me ASAP!
im not like lierally dieing but i do need help urgently with Final Cut!
I am trying to capture my video from the camera and the message pops up that says "Insufficient Disk Space Remaining in the Capture Scratch".
So I have 2 questions:
1) What does it mean
2) What do I do to fix it?
im cluless here guys! any input asap would be so greatly appreciated! thanks
Ben

It means that you do not have sufficiant space on your scratch disk to capture your video.
What have you designated as your scratch disk? Which drive? Get Info on that drive to see how much space you have available. When you Capture, your Capture Window will give you info on how much space your drive has, and how much video (in time) you put on it
The solution is to get more space. Like clearing stuff off your drive or getting a new one
If you are capturing video to your system drive, in other words, this is your scratch disk, this is not reccomended. Designate another drive, either internal or firewire external as your scratch disk.
For more info on the scratch disk and how to target it, consult your FC manual and online help

Insufficient disk space remaining in the capture scratch

I’m using a PowerBook G4, 1.25GHz processor with 2 GB DDR SDRAM whit Final Cut Express version 3.5.1. I tried to capture footage from my camera and received a message, “insufficient disk space remaining in the capture scratch.” I moved all the files: Audio render files, Autosave vault, Capture scratch, etc to a new folder on my desk top, but still get the same message when I try to capture. To capture, I click the play button on the screen; hit the mark in button at the point I want to start and the mark out button at the end. Then I click the clip button followed by the ok button on the log clip dialogue box. The program then goes through what I assume to be the capturing process leading to the error message. How do I overcome this? Thank you.

Hi Geoffemn
The solution is to buy an external hard disk. Save the files to that. It does nothing to move the files from AV or scratch disk to a folder on the desk top. It still uses the same amount of space on the Power Book's HD. Of course you can look over current files on the HD and delete ones not needed. But that's a temporary fix. Large HD's have come way down in cost per GB. Go buy one. It should run at a speed of at least 7200 RPM and have firewire.
Carl

Error message: insufficient disk space in the capture scratch

What does it mean, and how do I change it? I have two hard drives in the machine, one of them is almost full, and the other has 700 gb of space left.

It means that whatever drive you have set as the capture scratch drive now is too full to capture media to...and you need to switch to the other drive. You do this in the SYSTEM SETTINGS...
Shane

I have recently received a project from someone who has already captured the footage, can I use the footage directly from the capture scratch for my new project?

Will this in any way effect my footage when working/exporting? I will be working off the same hard drive.

If all the footage played in FC to begin with and all the media is included in the capture scratch folder you should be good to go but I would check a few things.
Pull the new footage into your project and look under the compressor column. If any files are H264 or MP4 I would recommend converting these to a PR422 or another FC friendly format. Also confirm any audio only files are aiff/48Khz(not mp3 or 44.1Khz).
In my experience you can work with H264,MP4, mp3 & 44.1 in FC7 but you are almost guaranteed to have problems later.

What Exactly should be in the Capture Scratch Folder ?

I apologize for the moronic question, but.....
I recently installed a second internal Hard Drive in my computer which
I was planning to reassign the scratch disc folder to, so that my external
hard drive which holds all the media / video, would not have to do double
duty in holding all the render files, etc. as well as the media.
But in going to do this, I realize I have almost 200gb of video ( in the
form of quicktime movie files ) already there. So if I move that folder,
I am not really solving anything, as a large portion of the media is
already in it.
Can I with relative painless-ness, set up a new scratch disc on the internal
drive, or will this just create an avanlanche of media not found headaches
and the like.
Again, I apologize for what is clearly something I just did not set-up
properly 3 years ago. I do not use this program that regularly or else
there is a chance I might understand it better.
Thanks for any and all help / suggestions,
Sterne
FCP 5.1.4 Older G5 computer.

I may not be understanding you correctly, but I think you will be ok with what you are doing:
Main hard drive with the OS and all your applications.
Second internal hard drive you are adding will contain all the scratch disks and project files.
For example, on this I have a folder entitled "FCP Docs on HD6" which contain all my scratch disks of Audio Render Files/Autosave Vault/Capture Scratch/Render Files/Thumbnail Cache Files/Waveform Cache Files that I set under FCP preferences. I also have another folder on this hard drive that I have labeled for a client--ex. Smith Project--and in here I keep all the other items for this project--the FCP project itself, any jpegs I'm using, any clips I've made self-contained to do smoothcam on, etc.
On your external hard drive you can keep what you have done before and not transfer them over to the new FCP Docs folder. The old project will still access those capture scratches from that external drive. (However, if you have now assigned those scratch folders to your new internal drive, when you open this old project and work on it, the NEW captures/renders/etc will be on the NEW scratch disks while what you have done in the past will still remain in the old.) You just have to remember when you are cleaning out your project or saving it to archive that some of your files are on your external.
You can have different scratch disks on separate hard drives, it just gets confusing if you have too many. FCP will use the scratch disks you LAST assigned. I repeat it gets confusing, just like this explanation probably is
Sharon
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Clearing the Capture Scratch file

When is it safe to clear the files in your capture scratch file? i am going to be upgrading to leopard and when i upgrade i want to strip my 3 hard drives. so before i do that i want to make sure i have my back up all my current work and get rid of what ever is not important. so the big question is what can you trash and what do you need to keep in this file. if i had to guess, you need to keep all the files that are current, if you delete them then you will need to recapture them. is that correct?

Ian's right.
But if you're brave and - more importantly - are absolutely meticulous about how you logged your clips (reel number being the most important) and are sure that all your DV tapes run in an unbroken 00:00;00-60:00;00 - then you can delete your capture scratch per project whenever you feel comfortable about doing that and then...
... when everything has been reinstalled and reformatted back up you can open your original project files, click capture project and you will be prompted to insert your reels number/name by number/name. FCE will automatically find what you logged.
If you're too late (ie you've entered too many reel 001's) you can still change the reel settings in the appropriate bins in the browser. Just view as list and then and rename the reel settings.
Be sure to name the tapes too.
You should be fine (if you're brave and meticulous).
Incidentally all other files can the FCE docs folder (Waveform cache, thumbnail cache, autosave vault, ender files and audio render files) can be safely deleted. When you re-open your project files you can re-render everything. Just never never delete your project files.
Hope this helps.
M.

Can you move the capture scratch?

Can it be moved to an external hd where it should have been in the first place?. The project and sequence are already half way done. Thanks.

Yes, Move the physical Directory with files to whatever drive you need to move to. Then, I believe (by memory, hopefully this is right), you click on "System Settings" and then point Audio/Video/Autosaves, etc... to the new drive and folder location.
Ryan Salazar
http://www.ryansalazar.net

Are the FC Events and capture scratch the same thing? Also, how big of an external drive do you need if you plan on making lots of 3-5 min movies?

Are the FCP Events Folder and the capture scratch the same thing? If not, what is the difference?
I've set the events folder and the projects folder to an external drive (400 GB) but it's filling up quickly. What are appropriate external drive sizes?

FCP X Events folders are the same as the old FCE/FCP Capture Scratch folders.
There is no "appropriate" size as everyone is different.
I have a friend who finds the 80GB drive on his 2004 iMac more than sufficient!
Other people can use hundreds of gigabytes a day.
So it all sepends on your particular usage and the only answer is get one as big as you can.
The reason FCP X fills up HDs so quickly is because it usually converts footage to ProRes 422 which uses about 50GB per hour of video.
Whenever you render the footage it is done in ProRes 422 so the drive space is incredibly rapidly eaten away.

How do I work around incorrect capture scratch disk use estimates in FCP?

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to find a work around solution for FCP incorrectly estimating the space required on my capture scratch disk. I am using a Panasonic AJHD1400 to play back some DVCAM footage. I want to capture it 720x480 Anamorphic H264, via the firewire output on the deck. I am able to "free" capture the clip by hitting play on the deck and crash recording ("capture now") on the log and capture tool. From this process, I know the final captured file will be somewhere in the 3GB range, give or take. The clip is a little less than an hour long. I have 343 GB available on my scratch drive according to the information in the "Capture Settings" tab of the log and capture tool but according to the same info FCP thinks only 36.9 minutes of footage will fit on the disk. Consequently I can't log and capture the clip properly due to "insufficient disk space". What gives?
Any suggestions and responses will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

It isn't an Easy Setup per se. I modified the "generic capture" template in the capture preset editor to use DV video from the AJHD1400 as the "Digitizer" and set the "Compressor" to be h.264 at 100% quality.
The whole point of the strange capture is for our sound editorial staff to edit to in pro tools. We don't have networked video storage for our audio department. If i capture in DV, the files are still like 20GB. using my "custom" settings I get a reasonably sized file that looks decent enough for the editors in a file that is small enough to fit on a data dvd if need be. I save rendering time as well.

Can I remove 'Capture Scratch'?

Hello everyone,
My Intel iMac 20" is having a lot of problems (used Monolingual - killed Rosetta; can't use Cmd+W in the Finder, Final Cut Studio apps not opening anymore (some Prokit.framework architecture problem)) and want to backup all files to my external HD and then do a clean install, but I seem to be having just too little space on my external HD.
My question is, can I remove the files in ~/Documents/Final Cut Express/Capture Scratch/?
Thanks.

Removing the capture scratch contents will remove all your captured media. If you don't mind that, go right ahead. I'd copy it all to a firewire drive. It OUGHT to be on a different drive than your system drive anyway.

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The dialog box, indicating remaining disk space on your hard drive located at the bottom of the finder window is gone in OS 10.8. How does one keep an eye on how much space remains on the hard drive or any external device for that matter?

Under Finder > View > Show View Options there should be a checkbox called "Show item info" However, these details (including free space on each drive) are displayed beneath each item on your desktop, not in a discrete window at the bottom of the screen.
If that's no longer there in Mt. Lion, then do Get Info on the drive(s) you want to see details about.

Capture Scratch Error

After deleting everything but three items in the capture scratch folder, I am still getting a error message that the folder is too large and as a result I am unable to capture anything. For time constraints, I went ahead and deleted everything in the folder and now I am able to capture. My actions have costs me to lose some of the media in the final cut file and when looking in reconnet media for the location I can see where the capture scratch folder is indicated.
Is there a way to undo a delete command? Any other suggestions?

When you say you 'deleted' everything from the scratch folder, do you mean you moved it to trash and emptied the trash?
If you know the original file name, have you tried doing a Finder search?
K

Error code when trying to move capture scratch files

I tried moving the capture scratch files for 10 interview files I have created from my documents to my external hard drive. I was able to move the render files without any problem but each time I try to drag a capture file from my documents and place it in the capture folder on my external hard drive I get the following error " Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred. Error Code (0)."
The external drive still has 261 GB empty, so not sure what the problem is.

What would be the best way to approach this. Can I buy a firewire external hard drive and connect both it and the USB drive to my computer and move files from the USB drive to the firewire drive? And also move the capture files to the firewire drive?
Will my local apple store be a good place to buy the correct drive?
Thanks for working me through this.

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