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The importance of backing up
Let me stress this.
I laid out my audio edit on a new project, and went back to the top of the timeline to start finessing and adding cover. I accidently hit a key that overwrote my entire timeline.
No problem. Just hit undo, right?
Problem is that as soon as I hit the edit and realized what I did, I got the beach ball.
95% of the time I get this, it’s followed by a crash. Maybe 98%.
And when it crashes and you reopen it, the undo list is gone.
Thankfully, I had created a duplicate of my project just a few minutes before, otherwise it would have taken me over an hour to get my timeline back.
I feel like I’m playing Russian Roulette every time I edit something in FCX.
Is there something about Lion that keeps this from happening and lets you get back to previous versions?
I’m not a hater, but I’m not feeling the love.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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[Mark Morache] ”
I’m not a hater, but I’m not feeling the love.”The great thing about beating your head against the wall is that it feels so good when you stop. 😉
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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You would think Lion, with Resume, Auto Save and Versions, it would help this out. But I have yet to see it happen.
It appears that FCP X has it’s own auto-save-most-of-the-time feature and doesn’t seem to utilize Lion’s feature.
There doesn’t seem to be any Versions support either. There only seems to be one Currnetversion.fcpproject file.
For me, the biggest impact Lion has made in this area is the removal of Save As …
Save As … is probably one of the oldest features I can think of. Apple has (once again) chosen to think different. Now, instead of saving a file with a new name (or your own idea of a versions number) you can Duplicate or Export the file.
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Versions support is not there yet, but it appears from the “Current Version” files that it will be implemented at some point.
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was that a pig I saw flying past the window?
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Think of the times you just want to experiment and try out things – 20, 30 or more steps that at the end you think ‘no – scrap this’ and just want to go back to the ‘last saved’ version.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who does this occasionally – that’s why ‘Revert to Saved’ is there in Quark, Photoshop…
‘Autosave’ destroys this freedom, and in any professional-level software is a complete no-no.
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Funny, a lot of the software that I use these days does autosaves, so much so that when I use a program that still requires me to save I have to remind myself to do so.
Google Docs has excellent autosave and history features. It saves whenever you make changes, and you can quickly go through the history, review and older version, and restore if you want to.
I’d be happy if FCPX evolved to do the same.
johnmflores.com
whatblogisthis.blogspot.com/
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