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Making backups and freeing space in Premiere
I have a disk with several projects and I would like to make regular backups of the projects and all the media of each one.
Is there a way of making incremental backups at the end of the day?
And how I can free up space in my disk by deleting all media, previews, etc, that are no longer used by a particular project? Is there a way inside Premiere to show what files are being used by the project and the ones that are not being used? -
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I use a backup software called backup4all that will do that.
You can do incremental or even mirror where it will match the drives.They have a free version; the $50.00 version will do things like ftp backups or auto backup at shutdown. Great and reliable application.
You can use the project manager to copy the project to a new location and remove unusued items.
Vince
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You can also see which files are being used by adding the “Video Usage” to your list of columns which are being viewed in the Project panel(Name – label – media etc.). I like to move that column fairly close to the beginning so that I know which clips I’ve already used.
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Is there a way to not only remove unused clips from your project but also delete them (the source file) at the same time?
Nate -
Using Terry’s method to view the clips that are unused, select them and right click, select unlink. That will bring up the option to delete them from your drive.
You can then “remove unused” (from one of the top menus, can’t quite remember which one)
Vince
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You can delete the unused clips from the project and the drive all at once by right clicking and choosing unlink media. It will ask you to move the clips to the trash bin. then you can easily just delete the placeholder left behind in your project.
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