saving copies

[David Roth weiss]

I’m sure that many people have there own good ways of doing this, but I like to keep it simple, without renaming, as I find that’s overlycomplicated.

I have three primary directories to which I save projects. I’ve copied shortcuts to them to left side of the Finder window, you know, under the shortcuts that Apple puts over there (Desktop, Movies, Pictures, etc.)

#1 is the shortcut to the directory on my system drive where I save every FCP project folder as I’m working on it.

#2 is the shortcut to the directory on my 2nd internal drive, which I use for all kinds of miscellaneous stuff.

#3 is the shortcut to directory on another computer on my network.

At the end of each day, I simply copy the FCP project from the directory on my system drive to the directory on my aux internal drive, thus always giving me a backup of the previous days work on a separate drive.

And, at the end of the week (or whenever I feel the urge), I copy everything FCP over the network to the directory on the other computer, thus giving me a back up archive of all my work in a safe place off of my main computer. Finally, that archive gets backed up to DVD or CD about once a month and stored safely offsite.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY

[Rap]

hi David, thanks for your reply
but I was wondering how do you do that ! do you drag and drop the icon of your project to a folder when your done? or what?

[David Roth weiss]

Yes, drag and drop is all there is to it…

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY