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Managing Snapshots
While I am working on a project I tend to make lots and lots of snapshots.
“In the old days” I could manage them all in a Bin or folder.
What can I do now? They are cluttering up the hallway 😉
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I have two events. One called Media, and one called sequences. In the sequences event I have all my projects and snapshots. When I generate a compound, they end up here, but I usually drag them over to the media event eventually to clean things up.
In the media event I have lots of keyword collections, often separated into folders like Camera Originals(folder)>Cam A, Cam B (keyword collections).
Not very different than the way I sorted things in legacy really, except that as an analogy to a bin vs. keyword collection, they’re just better because my media can exist in multiple places/keyword collections at once.
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[Patrick Donegan] “”In the old days” I could manage them all in a Bin or folder.
What can I do now?”
Smart collections. Here’s what will collect all snapshots, (nicely misspelled lol) you could make a collection for separate project snapshots, whatever… 🙂
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I like that. And make sure the projects smart collection omits snapshots. So every time you do a snapshot, it just kinda disappears into the snapshot collection. Gonna steal that.
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[Bret Williams] “Gonna steal that.”
Feel free. I have an “project” event that organizes everything for me. Love smart collections. 🙂
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FCP X can call them projects, but I refuse to.
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[Bret Williams] “FCP X can call them projects, but I refuse to.”
lol… well, whatever you call them, Smart Collections sure do make it easy to organize them. 🙂
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Doing it this way requires you to leave that word “snapshot” in the project title?
Scott Witthaus
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[Scott Witthaus] “Doing it this way requires you to leave that word “snapshot” in the project title?”
Correct.
I use Smart collections too, and sometimes, if I have multiple versions of a sequence like version 12A,12B, 12C, 12D, and 12E, the client likes 12B and I make that version 13, I will add “snapshot” to the end of A, C, and E, and those Projects will fall out of the Smart collection.
I also use Smart Collections for “FINAL” versions, so that every Project in a my Projects Event that is FINAL shows up there. This is very helpful or larger campaigns where there can be dozens of versions.
Here’s a filter set that I currently use to fiter out only the current versions of each Project in a Smart Collection.
The Event, right now, has 98 Projects in it, but with that filter applied, it cuts it down to the 5 Projects I am actually working on.
Jeremy
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[Scott Witthaus] “Doing it this way requires you to leave that word “snapshot” in the project title?
“Yes, since the Smart Collection is using that criteria for sorting. Of course, you could use a different term and filter on that criteria, but then you have to manually alter the sequence/project name each version.
Part of this depends on how you create versions. For example, snapshotting is designed to mark a point in time (backwards) while you continue to work on the original sequence you started. If your approach is to make a copy and then revise that copy for the next version, then you might want to sort differently. For example, you could still create a Collection like a bin and simply move other versions into that. So 2 Collections – “current” and “old” or “in progress”. Naturally this requires manual sorting, whereas Charlie’s suggestion is automatic.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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But I could do a Smart Collection based on the word, “version”, correct? So my spots usually are (for example): “Lottery Giveaway_Version 3”. And then snapshots are made from each version based on what I or the client wants to try. I don’t keep the word ‘snapshot’ in there as it clutters up the title.
But as long as I keep “version” in the title, I am good to go, right? I don’t use smart collections enough as I should.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter
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