Where do I set the scratch disk in FCP X?

I'm new to FCP X. How do I set the location of my scratch disk?

Thanks, Tom! Found both options there (see Screen Shot).
Weirdly, though, if I now try and select any of the Events now located in my other hard drive, they do show up in the Film Strip area (to the right of the Event Library), but none of these Events show up in the Time Line window (lower section). The only one that continues to show up in the Time Line window are the Events still located in the startup drive.
Is there a way to get those Events now in the other HD to show up in the Time Line window?

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More than 1 set of scratch disks ?

i want to have more than 1 set of scratch disks in FCP.
is this possible ?
i want to have one project on one and then one on another,if so how would i save to each one ?
thanks
adam

I do this regularly as I have 2 additional hard drives in my machine. I set scratch disks on each one (for example name FCP doc on HD-1, FCP doc on HD-2). I have the corresponding FCP project on each HD. When they are long weddings, that helps me keep everything organized.
The downside is when you start up each project you have to go into FCP System Settings EACH time to make sure the scratch disks are set to the HD you want. A pain if you are switching back and forth between projects quite a bit.
Actually, each project saves in the scratch disks under its own name, so it is kind of 'what's the point' of putting on different scratch disks? I say that, then I do it Old habits die hard.
Sharon

Set New Scratch Disk for rendering...

I finished a short film on a HD with no space left at the moment. To render the video, I'll need to set a new disk to render to, but everytime I set the scratch disks to my main drive (plenty of space left, I'm desperate) and checked the render video and audio boxes, and unchecked them on my old HD. It's a pretty messy project with files everywhere, truly unorganized. But I need to set the render folder on my main one and it is still referring to my other drive when I try to render anything, which does not have enough space left to render anything. Any solutions?
So far I've tried restarting FCP and that's it.

When you go back to your System Preferences settings, you can see your main disk as scratch disk or you see your old setting to the external one?
Try trashing your FCP preferences and setting everything again.

Different Scratch Disk Per FCP Project

I love FCP Studio and swear by it for most things. I'll cut straight to the point...
I want to be able to set my scratch disk location (capture scratch, render files, audio render files) as a project based setting NOT a system wide setting, and I want FCP to remember this setting for each project.
I am very frustrated with the fact that you can't set the scratch disk to different locations per project, as I am constantly changing the location depending on what I am working on, and sometimes I forget and I'm working off the wrong drive.
Also, sometimes I'm multi-tasking and working on two or more projects for different clients off of different mobile drives. This becomes a big cluster f$!k when I'm forced to render and digitize everything to one drive yet I'm working off of several removable drives that I need to take with me at some point. I need elements for each project to stay on their own drive!
Now, I understand that my need goes outside the real of the normal editor, and may actually cause a larger fundamental back-end issue that I am not aware of, but is it asking too much to have the scratch disk setting a project based setting, and not a system setting?
It seems to me that FCP could just remember where you want to point your files to depending on what project you are working in?
Any ideas? Am I missing an obvious solution? Any 3rd party software out there to help with this?

Matthew Lynn wrote:
... It seems to me that FCP could just remember where you want to point your files to depending on what project you are working in?...
You would think ...
I completely agree and have posted about this on many occasions.
You might find this an interesting read:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10916404#10916404
I absolutely love the ability to set different drives for different file types if we choose.
But it should be a PROJECT setting not a System wide preference.
This thread is just another example of why it should be that way.
Send a suggestion to Apple http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
Hey, ya never know.
best,
g

Where is the scratch disk for Garageband ?

Hi there,
1) Can I know when we record vocals in garageband, where does the recorded file copied to ? What is the path of the scratch disk ?
2) If I copy my project files in my macbook pro to my iMac, how does iMac locate all the recordings that I done in the macbook pro ?
Thanks

HangTime wrote:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#recordingsstored
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
Thanks HangTime,
It says:
+"A. The recordings that you make are stored within the project that you created. It is recommended that you do not mess with the project package (and if you don't know what an OS X package is, or how to open one, it's even MORE strongly recommended that you do not mess with it)"+
what does +stored within project+ means ? so where is the file ?
don't i have to copy them when I want to use a project file from macbook pro to iMac ?
thks

Where within CS6 Photoshop will I find the folder and file to clear the scratch disk on my harddrive ???

Where is the folder (and file) to erase the scratch disk ...

There is no such folder.
The scratch file gets erased as soon as you close the file that was using it.
The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch.

Photoshop CS5 does not want to open after I changed the scratch disks in prefs

I was working on a large document in Photoshop CS5 that ate too much of my main drive (to the point I had to quite and restart a few times to clear it out) when the main drive was set as a scratch disk. I went in to preferences and changed the scratch disk to my secondary internal drive, where I keep all my media. Then quit Photoshop to clear the cache.
When I tried to open Photoshop again I get a message at start up (haven't gotten in to the program yet) saying: "Could not open a scratch file because the disk is not available". Clicked OK. Then another warning message: "Could not initialize Photoshop because the disk is not available."
Both disks are mounted and available. Since Photoshop never actually opens up I cannot go in and reset the scratch disk to my intinital settings.
Anybody got an idea what I can do to solve this?
Thanks,
/Fred

Worst case: trashing prefs by keeping ctrl-alt-shift pressed while starting Photoshop (and then using the dialog) should allow you to open it.

I have 2 hardisk,so i want to set two scratch disk but i doesnt work

i have 500g and another 160g hardisk.
such as i set up scratch disk in d: drive in 500g hardisk and f: driver in 160g hardisk
but i have found photoshop just use d: driver as scratch disk ,and never use f: driver.
why?

Okay! So you want to RAID your Scratch Disks! I've not tried that, and I don't know how Photoshop would handle a RAID Scratch Disk; I'm afraid someone smarter than me will have to visit the thread.
But even it were possible, both disks would have to be the the same size/capacity, speed, and cache; you can't RAID different sized disks like the ones you have, so you'd either have to have 2x 500GB, or 2x 160GB drives to start with, plus a dedicated RAID card to do the processing for you, you wouldn't want your CPU to be handling that load as well as everything else, the drives would also need to be internal as well, not an external RAID enclosure, where the I/O port becomes a bottleneck.
If you can, change the name of your question, "I have 2 hardisk, so I want to set two scratch disk but it doesn't work," to something like, "Need to RAID Photoshop Scratch Disks!" and hopefully someone who knows a LOT more about Photoshop and RAID than me will be able to give you an answer.
Also, please give as much information about your system as possible, what Operating System are you running, is it 32 or 64 Bit, Processor type and speed, installed RAM, Motherboard (some support RAID natively) etc.
Good luck!
Paul

How do I clear the scratch disk?

PS CC keeps telling me my scratch disk is too full. I don"t know where i is ti clear it out. I'm running Windows 8.

You define which disks to use for your scratch disk in Preferences-Performance. Ideally, a scratch disk is a separate disk drive with lots of free space on it. Every time you load brushes, swatches, make an edit that gets recorded to a history state, etc. information is written to the scratch disk. If you only have the one disk drive on your computer that you are running your OS, Photoshop, saving files, etc, it's possible to use up all the free space for scratch and not be able to save your file!
To immediately free up some scratch space that Photoshop is using, go to Edit-Purge, and remove some (or all) of the saved scratch information. Aside from that, make sure you delete anything not needed on your scratch disk(s) to free up more space. Buy an extra external hard drive of at least a few hundred gigabytes and set that as a scratch disk to avoid running out of scratch disk space.

"The scratch disks are write protected or unavailable" on NEW project on PrE

I am running PrE 10 on Windows 7 64 bit. My computer has two internal hard drives (C and E). I want to put my projects and all scratch disks on E, the non-OS drive. When I try to create a NEW project and designate a directory I have already created on E, I get the following message from PrE 10:
"The scratch disks are write protected or unavailable..."
The program won't let me use E. However, when I check the drive, it HAS created a .PRV directory in the Preview Files directory and a .prel file in the Encoded Files directory. So it is actually able to write to drive E.
What gives? Thanks.
Jon

Thanks, Bill and John.
I am running from an administrator account, but I wasn't running "as administrator." I had already changed the permissions to give everybody everything.
Here is what I discovered. Running "as administrator" made no difference. So I ran the program "normally" again. Then I discovered that although the program was giving me the "The scratch disks are write protected or unavailable..." message, it was actually setting things up properly on my E drive. When I continued to use the newly created project, the correct directories and files had been set up on my E drive, and I was able to direct my captures to that drive as well. I haven't done much work on the project yet, but it appears to be working just fine so far.
I just now created ANOTHER new project on the E drive, and PrE did NOT give me the error message. Everything got set up properly. Hmm. It looks as if that message it put out in error, or, at the very least, unhelpfully!
By the way, what is Encore, and how would it play a part here?
Thanks.
Jon

How can i make my external hard drive be the scratch disk with 1 FW input?!

Hello! I use firewire with my external HD AND my camera...however i only have one firewire input...i set my scratch disk for final cut to work with my external HD but when i am importing footage to my computer with my camcorder, i can not have my external HD plugged in, thus the scratch disk has to be set to something else to continue working. So how can i work around this problem?! Should i just change the settings back after i import the footage and it all goes to place?

I don't understand the need to daisy chain. I have one Firewire port on my MacBook Pro, and I use a Firewire hub. I've been connecting two 1TB Western Digital My Book Studio Edition hard drives (one for FCE and iMovie projects; one for the media files I create via export), and a Canon NTSC ZR200 miniDV tape camcorder, or a Sony Digital8 tape camcorder, or sometimes a Canopus ADVC 110, without issues. Why not use a Firewire hub? . . . except to save the small expense.

Could not use the type tool because the scratch disks are full in Photoshop CS5.1?

How do of get rid of the scratch disk error in photoshop? I'm using Photoshop CS5.1 extended and this error message apperars each time I try to do anything in Photoshop that message comes up. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can remove this error?

What operating system are you using?
Is your hard drive running low on free space?
How much free space is left on your hard drive?
Is your scratch disk for photoshop set to the Startup drive or some other drive?
(photoshop (edit)>preferences>preformance)

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I have had Photoshop Elements 12 on my Macbook for less than a month (free Trial). For the past few days I keep getting an error message that says "Cannot ___ because the scratch disks are full. Can someone please tell me how to fix this problem?

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How do I edit disk ? - I'm getting the "disk is full" warning.
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I like that you used a big, easy to read font, but you didn't use quite enough words...
Please list the OS and Photoshop version you're using.
Are any of your disks actually full?
If you can open Photoshop, you can configure the scratch disk preferences in Edit - Preferences - Performance (in recent versions of Photoshop that is).
If you can't even open Photoshop, you can set your scratch disk preferences by pressing and holding the Control and Alt keys (or their Mac equivalents) immediately upon cold-starting Photoshop. You have to be very quick, and if you're quick enough it will prompt you as follows:
-Noel

Scripting the location of the scratch disk...

Hey folks, I'd like to set the location of the scratch disk in Photo
shop CS3 in a javascript startup script. Does anybody know if that's possible? Thks, Will

Have a look at this thread...
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2318666#2318666

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