Saving Projects

wings wrote on 4/4/2008, 7:08 PM

What do I need to back-up to save these files?

As you suggested, I took about 15 - 40 minute ball games and loaded them into my computer. From those, I took several 4-10 second clips out of each game and rendered them into .avi files.
Then I picked out good, bad, and funny things out of each .avi and put them in the video along with text and music.

What I have now is 15 or so complete 40 minuted games, 15 or so 3 - 8 minuted rendered .avi files with the important parts of those games, all my mp3, Sony text, .jpg's, and vf files. Lots of it is in various folders.

I would like to be able to possibly edit it in the future so what do I do to save everything I need in a safe orderly manner.

Comments

richard-amirault wrote on 4/4/2008, 8:29 PM

I guess it depends on how much "editing" you think you'll need to do.

If you want to save "everything" then you'll need to save "everything" .. and that uaually means in the locations that they are in now.

OR ..you can move everythiing into one folder .. but when you open the project(s) in the future .. the software won't be able to find the files .. and you'll have to tell it the new location of every file at that time.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 4/4/2008, 11:07 PM

Go to 'save as' and in the bottom left corner tick off 'copy and trim media with project'. Create a new folder to save in. Now the project and all the media (trimmed to the proportions of your current edit) will be saved in that folder.
Good luck!