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

Sat Jun 12 18:27:24 PDT 2004

Final Cut 4.5.

Thank you.  I'll look up 'Media Manager' in the manual.

On Jun 11, 2004, at 9:46 PM, sb wrote:

> What version of FCP are you running? If it's 4.1 or higher, use the 
> Media
> Manager to archive your project.
>
>  sb
>
> On 6/11/2004 8:16 PM, "Djwp" <djwp1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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