final cut pro cache

How can I delete this. after the inital render of a 1 hour video I lost 35gigs of space. I traced this the the final cut pro document folder. what should I delete?

The render files are what is taking up all the space. This is how final cut pro works if you delete those files you will have to re-render everything. You should not be rendering into final cut pro documents every time, you should set the capture scratch at the beginning of each project and every time you change between projects to be in the folder in which the project resides so that when you are done and you erase the folder you erase all files associated with the project, including render files. Changing capture scratch can be changed in the preferences or in the log and capture window under the settings tab. I will see If I can find a good online tutorial for you.

Edit: I didn't read this all the way through, but it looks like it has very good information from what I did read. http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_scratch_disks.html

the bad thing about final cut is that when you delete the origional data off your computer, it deleates it off your project. what you can do is export to quicktime (if your completely done) and then discard your old files.
i hope this helps... and that im right!,
joshlacrosse

thanks guys, i'll get rid of that stuff when i'm completly done with the project and i export it to a quicktime file

np, i hope it works and didnt completely ruin your project! maybe you should back up the stuff to a dvd jist i case.

joshlacrosse said:

np, i hope it works and didnt completely ruin your project! maybe you should back up the stuff to a dvd jist i case.

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I didn't delete anything yet thank goodness