Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual
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Chapter 11
Connecting Your Equipment
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To set locations for the waveform and thumbnail cache files and the Autosave Vault folder:
a
Click Set next to the appropriate item.
b
In the dialog that appears, locate and find the disk you want to use.
c
Click Select (the button includes the name of the disk you selected).
The specified disk is listed next to the Set button, along with the amount of available
disk space. The amount of space that the caches use is determined by the Thumbnail
Cache setting in the Memory & Cache tab of the System Settings window. For more
information, see “
Choosing Settings and Preferences
” on page 945. For information
about the Autosave feature, see“
Backing Up and Restoring Projects
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Specify additional settings for capturing and exporting files.
 Minimum Allowable Free Space On Scratch Disks: Enter a value to set the minimum space
you want to keep available on a scratch disk. If you have limited scratch disk space, you
may want to set this to the amount of disk space you want available for render files. If
you use most of your disk space for captured clips, you may run out of space when
rendering transitions and clips with filters or motion parameters applied to them.
 Limit Capture/Export File Segment Size To: If you’re capturing or exporting clips that
may be used on other systems with a file size limitation, you may want to select this
option. Any files that are larger than the limit entered here (which defaults to 2 GB)
are written as separate files, in which the end of one file contains a reference to the
next (so the first file appears to be a continuous file).
 Limit Capture Now To: This option limits the duration of media files captured using
the Capture Now command. This can be useful if you want to capture an entire tape
without monitoring the entire process. For example, you can set the limit to
64 minutes, begin the Capture Now process, then leave and return several hours
later. Instead of capturing until your scratch disk is filled, Final Cut Express HD stops
capturing after 64 minutes.
To remove a scratch disk:
1
Choose Final Cut Express HD > System Settings, then click the Scratch Disks tab.
2
Click Clear next to the scratch disk you no longer want to use.