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Increment Saving in FCP …
Can this be done in FCP as like in After Effects ?
We are a 10 seat FCP facility with a SAN network – so a increment saving procedure is a must – currently the editor does it manually but this can be dangerous
Any help would rock
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FCP has had Autosave for quite some time. You can set it for any time limit you want. It can and will save you one of these days. Most likely you have it on and you don’t know.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Thanks for the feedback, I am aware of the autosave feature.
Its just that we work on a sequence and then a client will want changes, so instead of re writing over the same sequence I need a save in increments so I have a _01 – _02 and so on ….
After Effects does it so well – any hooo
The hunt goes on
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Autosave does not write over the same project, eliminating your changes.
Look in the Autosave vault….you will see the project with a date and time appendage to its name. -
Short answer. No, FCP does not have an incremental save feature. Check out Martin Baker’s tip on a really clever way to do this manually on the Digital Heaven website (under their podcast).
Scott
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Final Cut is NOT AE. AE doesn’t CREATE media. The project name in AE is an arbitrary pointless name. In FCP the project name is sacred and should not be messed with. Unless you really want to wreak havoc on your capture scratch folder and undoubtedly the Media Manager.
You’re working in a video editing program. There is no need for for saving incremental versions. Nor is there in AE for that matter. Your FCP project has the ability to create unlimited versions of sequences. You also have a robust file system within the project to organize versions.
A slightly off topic note: the newest version of FCP finally takes the project file name into consideration with autosave files. If you open an autosave file, even with it’s extended project name, FCP will actually open it as the ORIGINAL project name.
If you want to do incremental backups, create a folder at the same level as your project. (I personally have a project folder in which I keep the project and all livetype, photoshop, stills, etc. along with the project.) Call this new folder project backup or something. Whenever you want to create a backup, just option drag the project file into that folder. The finder will give it a name like project copy 1, project copy 2, and so on.
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