[Scott] "This is what I want. But FCP wants to put the project data on my system drive, in my user/doccuments/FCP documents/....and my media split into who knows how many folders all over. Geez, Apple, have you ever actually worked in the biz? If so, surely you must know how insane this arrangement is in what we like to call "the real world""
That's why you set your Prefs at the beginning of each project. When you assign your Scratch Disk, FCP automatically puts all the media into that drive. If you don't, it defaults to the same drive as the application.
I have a Projects Folder I created on my system drive. I put all my Project files there.
For everything else, I simply select the Scratch Disk and let FCP create the Capture Scratch and Render Folders there. This keeps everything well organized. Just a few folders and within those few folders is a separate folder for each project. This allows me to easily throw away media / renders for a particular project when it's completed without affecting anything else.
Is there something that's not working on your end? It's pretty straightforward and has worked well here for four years.
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