Autosave frequency

[David Bogie]

So you don’t really own FCP yet?
AutoSave works when you tell it to work. If you save at 13 mins, it might or might not save at 15, depends on what you just saved. You can Save All or you can just Save.

If you’re shopping for an NLE, read the FCP product sheets and there are hundreds of in-depth reviews all over the Net. Call a VAR and arrange for a demo of Avid, Vegas, FCP, Liquid.
FCP is flawed. So are all the others.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Bret Williams]

I’m not sure if it’s changed in 5. I haven’t paid attention. But it used to annoyingly kick in, even if you had just saved. In other words, it ignores any saves by the user and just goes about it’s autosave process.

Avid’s methodology is a bit keener. Every time you digitize a clip, every time you render a file, everytime you do anything that has to do with media on the drives, Avid saves. You don’t even see it. And on the autosave front, it resets it’s autosave clock if you hit save on your own. And it doesn’t kick in if nothing has changed. On FCP it’s kinda ridiculous. If you press play, FCP considers that something has changed. It needs to be a little smarter than that. Although no harm done, so it’s an annoyance that isn’t really a top level issue.

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[Bret Williams] “Every time you digitize a clip, every time you render a file, everytime you do anything that has to do with media on the drives, Avid saves. You don’t even see it.”

Well, Avid certainly did USED to work that way.
Avid auto-saves were absolutely the same “stop-what-you’re-doing-and-watch-the-spinner” as with FCP.
And I spent MANY an hour redoing complex work as the Avid would many times crash right after I exited from building and effect or CG.

I can’t say for sure if it still doesn’t do the “save-wait” on some (all) of the Avids I edit on around town to this day.

I just learned from experience to expect to wait for the auto-save to do its thing on Avid or FCP.
Don’t know if it still does or not specifically on Avid.

[Martin Baker]

Autosave has changed in v5 and for the better. It is now quietly done in the background without popping that ever-so-annoying window up that had a habit of appearing when you least wanted it to!

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Christopher Tay]

Hi Martin,

Do you know if in FCP5 it autosaves every x min that we set even when there’s no activity on the Mac ?

And does the autosave in FCP5 count from the last autosave or from the last manual save to trigger an autosave session ?

-chrispy