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Archiving After Compression
For this project, I am working in FCP 7, but would ask the same if I was in FCP X. When you are finished with your project, and you’ve compressed it so that it is out in InternetLand. . .how do you archive a full res copy of the project?
I’ve got two half-hours done, they are up on the necessary websites, etc. But I’d like to keep something full res as backup. . .somewhere. If I export out as a Quicktime Pro Res 1920×1080 HQ file, it’s like 30GB; (I had to convert mp4 files to Pro Res files, because those are the only thing that FCP “liked” for me, so I am assuming that’s the way they have to stay).
Any suggestions?
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My workflow would be to remove all the render files from the FCP project and keep the entire project as the archive, so you can continue editing in the future should you need to. My ‘render files’ I mean anything that has been generated by FCP/FCPX that can be generated again in future, and therefore doesn’t need to take up disk space for the time being.
30GB isn’t particularly large in these times of 1080 resolution and upwards. The total size of the FCP project won’t benefit from further compression.
I’m assuming FCP has the same project concept as FCPX here, i’ve only used the latter.
David
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