Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 166)

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The selected Easy Setup applies to all new projects and sequences. Settings for existing
sequences do not change. For additional information about Easy Setups, see Volume IV,
Chapter 24, “Audio/Video Settings and Easy Setups.”
If this is the first time you’re setting up Final Cut Pro, you’ll now need to specify your
scratch disk.
Specifying Scratch Disks
A scratch disk is a hard disk, internal or external to your computer, where Final Cut Pro
stores captured digital video and audio, as well as rendered media files created during
editing. (Rendering is the process of creating temporary video and audio render files
for portions of your sequence that Final Cut Pro cannot play in real time.) By default,
Final Cut Pro uses the hard disk on which the application is installed.
You use the Scratch Disks tab in the System Settings window to choose where you
want to save the video and audio files that you capture and the render and cache files
that Final Cut Pro creates. You can also specify other settings related to the size of
captured and exported files and the minimum available space allowed on scratch disks.
To specify one or more scratch disks and associated settings:
1 Choose Final Cut Pro > System Settings, then click the Scratch Disks tab.
If this is the first time you’ve opened Final Cut Pro, this window appears automatically
after you’ve chosen an Easy Setup.