Copy and trim media question Also defrag question

pghdog wrote on 3/8/2004, 5:58 AM
I am unclear as to how Copy and Trim Media with Project works. I have wanted to use it as an incremental backup of my projects as I work on them and also to save different versions at the end of the project.

Does Copy and Trim do just that, copy the relevant media and the avi file leaving the original media files untouched? Then you can continue to work on the project and even save other versions with Trimmed media?

Or does Copy and Trim actually destroy the media that is not used and you can not contiue to work on the project?

I would just try this but the consequences could be a drag.

Another quick question. Do you generally defrag your drives while working on a long project or wait until the end of the project?

Thanks
pghdog

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/8/2004, 6:36 AM
It does do just that, leaving your original media untouched. I would suggest however that if you want incremental backup of your project, all you need to save is the .veg file. I wouldn't really see any benefit to saving the media each time. The .veg file is relatively tiny so you could save a new one every few minutes if you wish.

I generally defrag my drives about once year or even less often.
pghdog wrote on 3/8/2004, 8:31 AM
Thanks for the reply.

I do save and rename different versions as I work. What I wanted to do with the Save and Trim method was have a file I could network to my other computer as a backup incase a harddrive failure or some other horror might strike my editing computer.

pghdog
BillyBoy wrote on 3/8/2004, 3:27 PM
You defrag your hard drives BEFORE they really need it. A hard drive should never be allowed to get much more than 2% fragemented. The longer you wait to do it, the longer it will take once you do it.

In the meantime your drives have been bouncing their read/write heads all over your drive trying to find all the parts of all those badly fragemented files. It just gets worse and worse.

Guess what the result of that is?

The read/write heads start to drfit out of alignment then you won't be able to read/write some files. Some foolishly think their drive died or went bad. No, not really, just the heads are now out of alignment, probably in part from all that excessive moving of the read/write heads because you didn't have "time" to defrag.