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In Case of Emergency – Exporting HD Locked Picture for Safety
Hello-
Long story short, I just locked picture on an HD feature and was about to open Premiere to export a Quicktime file for my sound designer when my 3-month-old Seagate 1.5T hard drive would “turn on” but not turn on, and the computer wouldn’t read it. In other words, it seemed to more or less be brain dead. All of my footage is on this drive. After 3 failed attempts, I changed the position of the drive and it came on, and now I’m wondering – while I’ve got it working and considering that I’d absolutely hate to deal with a crash here at the end – what might be the best way to get my locked picture onto my computer, separate from my footage. Should I export as a P2 file, Windows Media, MPEG-2? All I want to do is insure that I’ve got my picture if this drive were ever to crash permanently.
Thanks for whatever advice you can pass along.
Best,
Stephen
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2 Replies
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You need to do a complete back up, where you copy and paste everything of this project onto a new drive. Working off external harddrives is not ideal, but done a lot.
Exporting just the final movie can be done to any format you want. But if you want to maintain highest quality, then you should do it to an uncompressed format, it will eat up heaps of HDD space. P2 is probably a good size/quality ratio option though.
But before exporting I’d highly recommend you did a back up of the whole project, resources, project files, etc. Because there is no way of knowing if the drive will “die” while exporting, corrupt your original project file and then you’re really in trouble.
– JB
Good Luck.Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Thanks, Jon. Ended up exporting an UC AVI for safety. And everything has worked fine since then, so… We shall see. Backing up every way I can/can afford, though, for sure.
Have a good one,
Stephen
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