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Archiving old projects
I’m looking to free up hard drive space. What I want is to have one file, presumably Quicktime, that I can save onto my hard drive for each FCP project. What would be the best format to export to so that I could delete all of the other related files and still have a dvd quality file to import into DVDSP?
Thanks.
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You can just do a export with quicktime – make self contained and use current setting.
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If you’re talking about exporting a movie of the project timeline then I recommend you export in the project’s format with no conversion. Export DV to DV, DVCPro50 to DVCPro50, etc. That way aside from renders, no additional compression will be added in the process. Instead of outputting to tape, I export a QuickTime movie and store it on 1 or more DVD-Roms. For instance on a 30-minute DV/DVCPro project I split the project into two 15-minute segments and store across two DVD’s Later I can transfer back to my RAID and join the two segments. I hope this answers your question.
Lee Berger
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Archiving or backing up? Big difference. Different workflows that produce varying prospects for the future use of the work you’ve done. Which is it?
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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