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BACKUP project
Guys, how do you backup your project? I am currently just burning my premiere project directory straight to DVD, but most of my projects are over 20 Gb. Is there any better way without purchasing a tape backup system?
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External hard drives, if you make them yourself it’s much cheaper. At 500 GB for 200+ bucks, that’s a lot of projects.
Vince
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a 250 gig internal drive costs $69.99 these days (taking into account the labour/time involved to back up 20 gigs onto 5 DVD-Rs, you’ll find the drive is far cheaper)…and someone pointed out (on this site, I believe), that the drives fit perfectly in a Beta SP tape case.
If you don’t want to spend the money on a removable drive system, just buy an IDE/SATA – USB connector. This leaves the bare drive vulnerable during the backup/restore procedure, but it works. -
I go to Project –> project manager –> create trimmed project after this is saved out I simply back it up on a few DVDs. It usually takes about 3-5 DVDs but the project is good to go. Using this feature allows all the junk and unused files to be trimmed out. You can also choose how much of a handle you want on your AVIs just in case you need to work with it again. I can take a 40-60 gig project and trim it down to approx. 15-20gigs.
James
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thanx for the answers people, however, I dont trust a hard disk for backup. It’s the only mechanical thing in a computer, aside from the fans. If it can crash, it cant be trusted. James, how do you manage splitting your 20Gb trimmed project into several DVDs? Right now, I’m considering Nero Backup for this purpose, but it still kills a lot of time.
Thanx again in advance!
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James,
Does this feature also delete render files?
If not, one way to reduce the project’s size is to delete its rendered avi’s and conformed audio. This assumes you don’t plan to use the project again any time soon and have exported the final video. You can always re-render the timeline(s) later, and Premiere will automatically re-conform the audio files the next time you open the project.
I backup all of my projects, completed .avi’s, and DVD projects on an external drive. I have 2.5 terabyte of space total, with about 750 gigabytes in the PC. The balance is external so if I ever have a catastrophic failure of the PC, I always have the backups and can just plug the drive into another edit station.
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Well…
I’ve been eyeballing the new REV stuff from Iomega
70 GB on a removable disk?
Pretty cool….
Alex
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Hi…
Just another short question to add..
if i save the proj files only, can i recapture the video if need be? considering that i captured the video in scene detect mode.
thanks!
Cheers
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