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FCPX projects and TM backups
Hello.
I switched to FCPX a couple of months ago and just finished my first two “real” projects I’m now going to deliver and archive. I was so busy learning the new tools and workflows that I overlooked what I consider one of the most crucial points: the project and media backup. I’ve learnt there’s only one copy of the project that gets updated as the edit goes on, and that a 15 min earlier than the current copy is kept. As for the media, I save both a camera archive for each AVCHD card and a copy of the imported non-optimized files (in my line of work I end up with hundreds of clips only a dozen or so are actually used from) on a safe RAID NAS. So I guess I should be able to rebuild the media in case my MP internal RAID fails. But what if the project file gets corrupted? I am running TM backups of the internal RAID array excluding the Events folder, but I have seen the projects folder that is included also contains the rendered media folder, that can be big. I’ve seen all projects have the same name, so is there a way to safely keep a quickly usable copy of a project other than manually building a folder structure with the real project name and date and a CurrentVersion.fcpproject file inside?
Thank youFabrizio D’Agnano
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Get ProVersioner from Digital Rebellion. It provides autosave vault functions for FCP and other applications.
All the best,
Tom
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Thank you Tom.
Your help is precious as always. I just downloaded the trial and it seems the right tool.Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy
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