Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1831)

The specified disk is listed next to the Set button, along with the amount of available disk
space.
About Waveform Cache Files
A waveform cache file contains a waveform overview for audio in your project.
About Thumbnail Cache Files
Thumbnail cache files store small representative images of your clips that appear in the
Browser and Timeline.
The amount of space that the cache files use is determined by the Thumbnail Cache
setting in the Memory & Cache tab of the System Settings window. For more information,
see
“Memory & Cache Tab.” For information about the autosave feature, see “Using the
Autosave Feature.”
Search Folders Tab
When reconnecting clips to media files, Final Cut Pro uses the folders assigned in this tab
to search for media. The folders listed here appear in the Search Folders pop-up menu
in the Reconnect Files dialog, allowing you to limit your media search to specific media
drives and folders. This is helpful when you have a large number of disks that contain
footage for multiple projects, or when you are using a storage area network (SAN).
Tip: Searching a SAN or subdirectories of an HFS Plus volume can be more time-consuming
than searching an entire HFS Plus volume, so you can speed up the search processes
performed when reconnecting media by limiting which folders Final Cut Pro searches on
your SAN.
To add or replace a search folder
1 Choose Final Cut Pro > System Settings, then click the Search Folders tab.
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