[MacDV] Re: An Interesting Point. What To Do About Archives

[Djwp]

This leads nicely into a question I had on "how" to archive.  
Specifically, for Final Cut Pro.  I would like to take my projects and 
move them, clips & all, to a nice, big external harddrive.

Can anyone out there outline all files and everywhere I need to look to 
find them, that I would need to move to retain the project.  For 
example, I know I would need to move my clips.  I know there is a FCP 
Project file created that shows up in my Documents folder.  I know 
there are Render files that live elsewhere.  What is it I need to move 
to retain the project?  And, I'm assuming once I move it, in order to 
use the project again, I have to move all the bits and pieces back to 
the places they were, otherwise FCP won't be able to find things - is 
this corect?

Thanks for the help,
Jill

On Jun 6, 2004, at 9:22 AM, sb wrote:

> For iMovie projects, the safest method is to buy a honkin big hard 
> drive and
> then copy over all your completed projects, as you have been doing. 
> Just get
> more or bigger hd's and keep everything.
>
> For projects done in FCExpress, you can just back up the actual 
> project, not
> the media. You can probably fit it onto CD.
> If you have correctly labled your reel numbers when first capturing, 
> FCE can
> re-capture via timecode.
>
>  regards,
>  sb
>
>  On 6/6/2004 6:13 AM, "William Hofius" <wjh at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> The recent conversation about trying to re-import material from a DVD
>> raises an interesting question (for me at least)­How should one 
>> archive
>> their digital video projects?
>>
>> I am a pack-rat in just about every aspect of my life and have found
>> the same to be true of my digital lifestyle. I have only made a dozen
>> or so small iMovie projects, so I have kept all of the original iMovie
>> projects intact on my hard drive. I made a folder called "Finished
>> iMovie Projects" and once I have exported the iMovie to its final
>> format I place the iMovie project in this folder... just in case. Just
>> in case I need to re-export it, just in case I want to tweak it at a
>> later date, just in case.
>>
>> The problem is this consumes a lot of space. As my iMovie projects 
>> have
>> gotten longer, the iMovie projects have gotten bigger. I have gone 
>> from
>> a 20 GB Digital Video partition to an 80 GB partition and now that is
>> almost full.
>>
>> Making the space problem worse is the fact that my last few projects
>> have been done in Final Cut Express. These projects required that I
>> import several hours of digital video. Between the capture video,
>> render files, etc., these three projects consume nearly 80 GB in and 
>> of
>> themselves.
>>
>> I have been tempted to trash all of my finished projects, but was
>> recently reminded why I keep them in the first place. My in-laws asked
>> me for a VHS copy of all of my work so they could watch it in Japan.
>> (They are older Japanese and not very computer savvy.)
>>
>> OH, and just in case anything goes wrong, I keep all of my old tapes
>> around. After learning a hard lesson (forgot to import some footage
>> before I re-recorded over it), I buy new DV tapes for each and every
>> project.
>>
>> Enough blathering and down to the point. How do you fine folks archive
>> your digital media and your digital media projects? Do you keep
>> projects on hard drives forever? Burn projects as data to DVDs? Keep
>> the original tapes around? just don't worry about it?
>>
>> TIA
>>
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