Capture Scratch

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Capture Scratch

Hi,

What is "Capture Scratch"?

I captured some videos from my dv to my iMac. After finishing all the capturing process, I found there is a folder named "Capture Scratch" with some film fractions in it.

The fraction films can be viewed in QuickTime. And not all "Captured Videos' are in the folder.

So can I delete them? Or what should I do with them?

Thanks.

os. BTW, I changed the settings so all the captured films are saved to an external hard drive. Is there anything I should do to make final cut express4 work?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Final Cut Express 4

Posted on Sep 25, 2009 9:18 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Sep 25, 2009 10:09 PM in response to JhnD

Capture scratch is where your video is saved. If you delete them they're gone. That's what you're editing with.

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Answer 2

JhnD Author

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Sep 26, 2009 12:44 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi,

But how come the videos in the "Capture Scratch Folder" are not "all that I have transfered" from my dv to my iMac?

Besides, videos in the sub folder in Capture Scratch Folder, it's names are not right. Some are Untitled Project" and some are the name i setup

thanks.

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Answer 3

Tom Wolsky

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Sep 26, 2009 3:41 AM in response to JhnD

Sounds like you changed the scratch disk after you started capturing. Untitled project is a project file not a video file. I don't know why you saved it into the capture scratch. Are you sure that's the name, not just untitled?

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Answer 4

MartinR

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Sep 26, 2009 8:13 AM in response to JhnD

Hello,
It sounds like you need to learn more about the basics of using FCE. Get a copy of Tom Wolsky's excellent book "Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop and maybe also his Final Cut Express Made Easy tutorial DVD.

The Capture Scratch folder is where FCE saves the video clips you capture from your camcorder. If you change the FCE scratch disk location, it creates a new Capture Scratch folder in the new location and starts saving your video clips there. Changing the scratch disk location in FCE does not move any of your existing clips from your old scratch disk location to the new one. So, since you seem to have changed the scratch disk location you probably have some clips in the old Capture Scratch folder and some in the new one.

Clips that have the name 'Untitledxx" are given that name by FCE when you do not specify a unique name in the Capture window at the time you capture the video from your camcorder. Look on the Capture tab in the Capture window. You will see boxes where you can type in your own Name for the clip; or you can have FCE automatically build a name if you fill in the boxes called Description, Scene, Shot and Angle. You should also, always, enter a unique Reel Name for each tape you capture from.

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JhnD Author

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Sep 26, 2009 4:29 PM in response to JhnD

hi,

at first, i used the original setting for capturing and saving the files. after capturing few dv tapes, it showed that "there's not enough disc space", and need to "change captured video

so in final cut express -> system settings -> scratch disks -> set -> My New External Disks

after changering the settings, i get ".fcp" files in the new location.

but i also get "audio render files, capture scratch, and render files

in capture scratckh folder, there are "Named folder, with ckips in it", and 'untitled project x" in it.

thanks.

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Answer 6

Tom Wolsky

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Sep 26, 2009 8:06 PM in response to JhnD

I;m sure what you want me to tell you. That's the way the application works, except that you seemed to have saved the project files into the capture scratch, which is not a normal procedure.

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JhnD Author

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Sep 26, 2009 8:23 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

but how come not all the files i captured are not in the same place?

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Answer 8

JhnD Author

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Sep 26, 2009 8:26 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

the untitled folder is in the "scrapture scratch folderd'

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Answer 9

JhnD Author

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Sep 26, 2009 8:28 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

but i did nothing except setting the scratch disk to an external drive which is bigger in disk spsace

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Answer 10

Tom Wolsky

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Sep 27, 2009 4:15 AM in response to JhnD

Because you captured some files in one place and then you changed the scratch disk location and captured more files and they went to the second location. The computer does what you tell it to do.

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