Suggestions for consolidating and backing up a project?

[Dino Vince]

Backing up projects for me, depends on the combined file size of the raw footage and of the finished sequence. If small enough to fit on a DVD-R, I make quicktime backups of:

The finished sequence
The finished sequence without music

If the finished sequence is too large to fit on one DVD….I export sections at a time.

I consider the source as the backup for the raw footage. If you don’t have too much media captured, you can select all of the clips in a bin….lay them on a timeline, then export as a Quicktime and write to DVD-R

Don’t encode a video DVD though…encoding compresses the media, and you’ll lose quite a bit of quality if you try to use the media from an encoded DVD in the future.

Good luck!

[Dennis Leppell]

I’d add the project file itself to the dvd backup with the finished sequence, so if another editor ever has to make changes, the log/capture info is available, as well the ability to see all filters/transition settings used.