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external drives to improve performance?

I have a 17" macbook pro, 8gb RAM, Ati Radeon 6750, Intel i7 2,2ghz

I want to work with final cut pro X and motion 5, but i see that there´s no scratch disk preferences inside these applications.


Working with an external hard drive could improve performance? What if i only have usb 2.0 by the moment?

should be better to work on the macbook hard drive till I can get a usb 3.0 or thunderbolt in the future?


Thanks,


Pablo

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), ATI Radeon

Posted on Sep 25, 2011 3:36 PM

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Sep 26, 2011 11:10 AM in response to Chantus

Stick with FW800 external drives. No, there's no more Scratch Disk (thank goodness). Inside FCP X, you create Events on any hard drive attached. You create Projects on any hard drive attached. You can even use Disk Images, too. The user manual explains all of this very clearly.


I'd stay away from USB for video editing all together. Thunderbolt will help with really large projects, and work using very high end, very large HD and digital film files.

external drives to improve performance?

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