Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 289)

288 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing
To capture video and audio to separate files:
1 Choose Final Cut Pro > System Settings, then click the Scratch Disks tab.
2 Select the Capture Audio and Video to Separate Files checkbox.
Note: For capturing DV (including DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD) media, it’s
usually best to leave this checkbox unselected.
3 Select the checkboxes corresponding to the type of files you want to store on each
scratch disk: Video Capture, Audio Capture, Video Render, and Audio Render.
For example, if you want to capture video and audio to separate scratch disks, choose
two different scratch disks, then select the Video Capture option on one disk and the
Audio Capture option on the other. You can also capture separate video and audio files
to the same scratch disk, assuming the combined video and audio data rates don’t
exceed your scratch disk data rate.
4 Click OK to save your scratch disk settings.
Recapturing Clips
When you recapture a clip, you capture its media file, even if it already has a media file
associated with it. There may be several reasons why you’d want to recapture clips:
 You accidentally deleted a clip’s media file.
 You captured a clip with the wrong capture preset.
 You captured clips at a low resolution for rough, offline editing, and now want to
recapture the clips at full resolution for your final sequence.
Recapturing is essentially the same as capturing. The only notable difference is that
when you recapture, there may already be a media file associated with a clip. When you
recapture media, you can replace the clip’s existing media file, or capture a new media
file to a different location by changing the path of the scratch disk. For more
information, see “
Specifying Scratch Disks ” on page 165.
To recapture your clips, simply follow the batch capturing steps described earlier in
this chapter.
Recapturing Subclips
Subclips refer to portions of media files by using virtual subclip limits. When you tell
Final Cut Pro to capture a subclip, the subclip limits are ignored, and the entire duration
of the original media file is captured.