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Retreiving older projects?
I am currently using Sony Movie Studio Platinum 12. I notice when I click on Project in the top left hand corner, a drop down menu appears and on the bottom of this menu is a list of projects that I have created. However, it only lists the last six projects that I have worked on. I would like to access a project that is considerably older than those six. If I click on Project, then Open, there are a few projects available (not many) and a bunch of audio files that I have added to various projects. Just wondering how I can locate all the past projects that have been created with Movie Studio?
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Hopefully each project is in its own folder. Then all you have to go is look in that folder for the project file. I keep several old projects on removable hard drives and a sub-folder with my project files is always a part of the master project folder.
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Ah okay but the question is – where are the folders? Ive no idea where Sony Movie Studio stores those. Ive located a bunch of individual video clips which Movie Studio has used in various projects but not the projects themselves.
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I’ll add that when I save a project in Movie Studio, Ive no idea whereabouts on my computer it is saved. And I’m assuming it’s saving all the individual edits, audio etc within that project. I also gather that the project would stored as a file of some kind but I don’t know what kind of file that would be.
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Woops! I think Ive found it. I stumbled across a folder on my C drive which has a large selection of projects which Ive created with Sony Movie Studio. They all have a .vf file extension.
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You got it. That’s the project file for Movie Studio.
Do yourself a favour and practice good folder management.
I use Vegas Pro but the same things should apply to Movie Studio.I never use the default program settings for temp file location.
I always create or modify the locations that Vegas uses.
For example, the default Temp folder is something like C:/My Documents.
The only thing on my drive C is programs and that’s it. Everything else (emails, pictures, folders for Vegas, Photoshop, etc. is on drive D or E. If you don’t have a second drive on your computer, install one (at least a 1 TB. drive). They’re very cheap these days and will make your life a lot easier when it comes time to make backups of anything. If you can’t install an internal, then use an external (USB 3 please for the speed)).
Go through Vegas and change the default locations of everything you can find.When it comes to to new projects, create a master folder and label it appropriately.
Here’s a screenshot of a master folder for a project I’m currently working on.
This is only one example so feel free to modify it to suit your needs.
For example, I often have separate folders for music, graphics and voice overs but they weren’t needed here so I didn’t bother creating them.
Instead of clicking “Save” for a project, I always do a “Save As”, give it a specific name and version number and save it in my ProjectFiles folder. This particular one has 14 different versions because I kept making changes as the project went along. This allows me to go back to an older version I want if I’m not happy with the current one. -
I think I would definitely prefer your workflow. It would make life so much easier, especially when looking for older content. Very well organised.
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Thanks. I can’t take the credit for doing it that way. I read it on a Vegas forum a long time ago and it made a lot of sense to do it.
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