autosave

[Jason Diebler]

Shift+Command+S, Return 🙂 “save as” – what’s the difference?

“The deepest blues are black” – Foo Fighters
(this doesn’t help me when I’m chroma keying!)

[Michael Sacci]

[jerry wise] “force” an Autosave”

By definition Autosave just happens if you are forcing it it is not “AUTO” but you can do a save or save as. But there is no versioning in FCP that gives you auto-naming so you have to name each save as.

[Ron Pestes]

Just set up your autosave in preferances for a short time period. I use 4 minutes but thats just me. Some use 15 minutes or so but I would hate to have to do even that much editing over again. I save 25 copies of autosave and then they just get deleted automaticly after that.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I hit command option s extremely frequently.

Save early. Save often.

[John Paterson]

a normal save or save as does not write to the autosave vault which is the whole point of an autosave. You want to have a version that you can ‘roll-back’ to in the event of a disaster.

[John Paterson]

Further investigation has shown that it is indeed possible to force FCP to do an autosave to the Autosave Vault. To do this open the User Preferences by pressing Alt+Q. Go to Autosave Vault>Save A Copy Every and enter a time of Zero minutes. This will force FCP to do an Autosave immediately, and it will also reset the Autosave time to the minimum of 1 minute. You should then reset the Autosave time to something more usable like 10 minutes before carrying on.