I just splurged and got a laptop so that I can work on my projects while I travel. I'd be interested in hearing how others move their projects back and forth between computers - without carting along a firewire hard drive.
I have about 160 gigs on my desktop and about 20GB free on my laptop. The two computers are connected via both an ethernet network and a firewire network.
I used to keep the pieces of my project separate (clips on my dedicated video drive, graphics in their own folder on the system drive, .veg files in a "project" folder on the system drive, etc). I'm thinking of keeping all pieces of one project in a specific folder (.veg and all media) and sharing this folder on the network. Then, when I travel, I was going to "save as" with the "copy & trim media with project" option checked and move those files onto the laptop. When I return to my "home" system, I thought I would overwrite the files from the laptop to the desktop.
I want my systems to be as organized as possible and not have to spend time searching for offline files.
That said, what do you do or what recommendations to you have?
Rick
I have about 160 gigs on my desktop and about 20GB free on my laptop. The two computers are connected via both an ethernet network and a firewire network.
I used to keep the pieces of my project separate (clips on my dedicated video drive, graphics in their own folder on the system drive, .veg files in a "project" folder on the system drive, etc). I'm thinking of keeping all pieces of one project in a specific folder (.veg and all media) and sharing this folder on the network. Then, when I travel, I was going to "save as" with the "copy & trim media with project" option checked and move those files onto the laptop. When I return to my "home" system, I thought I would overwrite the files from the laptop to the desktop.
I want my systems to be as organized as possible and not have to spend time searching for offline files.
That said, what do you do or what recommendations to you have?
Rick