archiving question

[Richard Harrington]

You need to media manage the project…

I suggest reading a detailed book or watching Chris Phromoyans DVD at FinalCutHelp.com

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Walter Biscardi]

Simply select your timeline

File > Media Manager

Media: Copy

Project: Turn ON “Duplicate selected items…..”

Say OK.

Now tell it where to copy the project to. A hard drive, a DVD drive if there’s enough room on the disc, etc….

FCP will create a new project and copy all the media from your timeline to this new project.

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[Adam Smith]

One question since it’s the kind of thing I’ll run into eventually since I also shoot on P2 (same camera!)….

Most projects I do will be P2 footage as the primary (often only) source of footage, and as I’ll be backing that footage up anyways, is there a recommended means of backing the project without duplicating storage of the P2 source media?

And… I plan to soon use Raylight to access P2 footage directly, does that change anything as far as backing up?

Thanks!

-Adam

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Shane Ross]

Sam…When I back up, and I have tapes, I simply back up the project file, and anything I DON’T have on tape. Because re-capturing from tape is a snap. So I back up Music, VFX, Sound Effects, Motion files and projects, After effects exports…stuff like that. I also export a self contained QT movie of my finished project. But Walters way works well too.

Adam, when I comes to P2, I never ever work with the originals. When I work with P2, I back up the original files onto a hard drive, then import them into FCP, turning them into quicktime files (this allows me to re-name them and mark IN and OUT points if I wished). I then put the P2 back up drive in a case on the shelf and leave it there…those are my masters. If I went your route and was to use RAYLIGHT, then I’d copy the P2 files (complete structure) onto my media drive, then again archive the original back up. It is never wise to work with the originals. They they get lost or corrupt, you are hosed.

As to “duplicating the footage,” you can’t think of it that way. The original backup are your source tapes…think of them as such. Then the copies you have on your media drive are your working copies. Just like you have tapes and footage captured from those tapes.

Shane

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[Adam Smith]

[Shane Ross] “As to “duplicating the footage,” you can’t think of it that way. The original backup are your source tapes…think of them as such. Then the copies you have on your media drive are your working copies. Just like you have tapes and footage captured from those tapes.”

Actually I offload with verify to a firewire drive and then copy from there to my P2CMS database, and from there to my RAID for editing and to a VXA Packet Tape drive for lasting backup… =)

I still want to develop a good workflow for backing up without P2 media, but at this point I’ve not even looked at Media Manager and now that I think about it… I haven’t even watched the Archiving chapter on your Getting Started DVD yet!

Thanks much!

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte