backing up video projects

tdsilk wrote on 4/17/2006, 10:03 AM

Hello,

Btw, I have VEGAS 6d
Can someone recommend the best methid for backing up unwanted capture files for video projects? I usually capture my video files to either my harddrive in my computer or to a external firewire/usb attached drive. The problem I experience is with the capture files. Once the project is burned to DVD is there a preferred method to backing up your project in case you need to go in a make future changes without keeping the capture files taking up space on your harddrive?

Thanks,
tdsilk

Comments

Nat wrote on 4/17/2006, 10:32 AM

Check out the "Copy and trim media with project" checkbox in the Save As dialog.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/17/2006, 11:10 AM

Simplest way is to keep your original tapes; archive your VEG and any other media files to CD or DVD, and you're done.

If you ever need to re-do your projects, you simply re-capture the tapes (they are your media backup). If you consistently label your captures, when you re-capture, the files will have the same name and will by byte-for-byte identical to what you originally captured.

tdsilk wrote on 4/17/2006, 11:23 AM

John,

After archiving the VEG and any other media files to CD/DVD do I completely remove the capture files from the hard drive? If I ever needed to modify the project would it be easier to just read the project VEG file and the media files from the CD/DVD?

Thanks