• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  saving copies

  Posted by Rap on July 14, 2007 at 1:49 pm

  hey guys, this is a very basic question but at the end of each session i like to keep a back up copy of that session , and i was wondering, what is the best way to do so? i’ve been using the save as option and name each project with the date of that day (in addition to the title it self, so if the project is called “title” i would save it as “title14_7”
  but I’m sure this is not the best way

  any suggestions?

  David Roth weiss replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  July 14, 2007 at 3:28 pm

  I’m sure that many people have there own good ways of doing this, but I like to keep it simple, without renaming, as I find that’s overlycomplicated.

  I have three primary directories to which I save projects. I’ve copied shortcuts to them to left side of the Finder window, you know, under the shortcuts that Apple puts over there (Desktop, Movies, Pictures, etc.)

  #1 is the shortcut to the directory on my system drive where I save every FCP project folder as I’m working on it.

  #2 is the shortcut to the directory on my 2nd internal drive, which I use for all kinds of miscellaneous stuff.

  #3 is the shortcut to directory on another computer on my network.

  At the end of each day, I simply copy the FCP project from the directory on my system drive to the directory on my aux internal drive, thus always giving me a backup of the previous days work on a separate drive.

  And, at the end of the week (or whenever I feel the urge), I copy everything FCP over the network to the directory on the other computer, thus giving me a back up archive of all my work in a safe place off of my main computer. Finally, that archive gets backed up to DVD or CD about once a month and stored safely offsite.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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  Rap

  July 14, 2007 at 7:18 pm

  hi David, thanks for your reply
  but I was wondering how do you do that ! do you drag and drop the icon of your project to a folder when your done? or what?
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  David Roth weiss

  July 14, 2007 at 9:43 pm

  Yes, drag and drop is all there is to it…

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY

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