[Sam – senior editor]

Hi Jason,

For me personally (editing at home), I just do a save project as a few times during my edit session but at work I leave it on for the benefit of the other editors or producer/editors as we trade projects back and forth. I guess that it’s a personal preference of mine.

Happy editing,

Sam

[Sam – senior editor]

I am just just about done editing a full length feature film that was originally over two hours long and re-edited down to one hour and forty eight minutes. Here’s what I learned from my experience. If it’s along form piece, you should talk to the person who will be doing the sound design (or audio mix) on the piece to see if their equipment can handle the entire timeline audio export or if their system can handle only 10-15 minute segments of a timeline at a time and factor that into your exports. I was also told to put 2-pops at the beginning and end of my timeline so when the audio mix is laid back to the timeline, we would have a simple way to make sure that everything synced up as it should. Make sure that when you export you audio as an OMF file that you have adequate handles on your files. I’m sure that if you glean a bit from me and the others in the post you should stay out of trouble.

BTW, you asked about project size. right now we’re at 1.8 TB and operating off an XSAN. That number should get bigger after we send it to Color and back.

Happy Editing and I hope this helps.

Sam

[Sam – senior editor]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for the quick reply. I set mine to 30 and leave the autosave turned on. If I was just editing myself, I’m with you and turn it off but I work at a place where the skill set of the editors range from novice to fully experienced, so for their sake I tell them to leave it on and they are protected when they edit on their own.

Happy editing.

Sam

[Sam – senior editor]

I was troubleshooting a large and complex project that kept shutting down halfway through the session. It turned out that the editor had his levels of undo set to 99. I changed that and restarted the computer and Final Cut and the problem went away, never to return. I suggested to him that if he needed to go back 99 levels of undo, he would be better off going into his autosave vault and opening up his project from approximately where he was when he was where he started.

Happy editing

Sam