FCPX fills up the start volume...

[Lindebrings Laurent]

Johnny Thank you for your post. I have the same problem with FCPX with RED ROCKET. Your solution is solving one a problem but not this problem.
In my opinion the RED ROCKET generate temp files that are wroten on the main hard drive to deliver video to FCPX. When the hard drive is full, OSX tells you to shutdown FCPX.
Then when you quit FCPX, your Hard Drive refill in time.
I tried to find an option in RED's software and FCPX but no solution for the moment.
If you have one, I'd be pleased to read it.
I think both Apple and RED are concerned by this huge problem : I have to quit FCPX every 20 minutes and then restart the Mac to get my hard drive back (that's way faster than waiting for refill).
If everybody request to Apple and Red, we should have an "in house solution" quickier.

 

[Mondo Ghulam]

Just to offer some additional information, I don't have a Rocket and with about 90gb to spare on my system drive (at the time) FCPX converted 256GB of 4K R3D's to QT proxies without issue. System is still running fine and FCPX never needs a force-shutdown.

 

[Mike Gifford]

There was another thread about this a few months ago.
I had the same problem - my SSD system drive was being gobbled up while making QTs from R3Ds in FCPX
A poster on that thread reported it to Apple and after investigation Apple replied that there was a bug in REDRocket firmware causing this.
Until this is fixed workaround would be to do this work in REDCine X or switch REDRocket off

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?89056-FCP-X-FORCE-QUIT-MESSAGES

 

[Marc Berger]

Hopefully the next RR firmware update will fix this.