Backing up a project

What is the best way to back up a project on another hard drive? including all media. Do I have to clone the drive or is there an easier way?
Vince

It will look for the files on the original drive. But you can ask it to search to be reconnected. When it finds one file, it will (by default, I think) reconnect all of the other media located down that same file path. It's actually pretty easy to reconnect media if you've copied everything.
Lawrence

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If I back up iMovie projects to an external drive does it take the media with it? I want to free up space and remove pictures that were in iPhoto...that were used as media by iMovie when project was under way. In short I want archive iMovie stuff

If I back up iMovie projects to an external drive does imovie take the media with it? I want to free up space and remove pictures that were in iPhoto...that were used as media by iMovie when project was under way. In short I want archive iMovie stuff. If I pull pics out of iPhoto, and later want to drag an archived projet bac into iMovie and the pics are no longer in iPhoto, will I be able to keep working in the project in iMovie?

Very likely not, as the iPhoto's can be used for something else.
More like it took a copy, or it's referencing that spot on the drive in the editable files and most likely made a copy to create a new permanent export file.
Sample one picture and a iMovie file and see what happens.

Bring back an expired project

bring back an expired project in Dreamweaver

Can you be a little more clear about what you mean by an "expired project"?
Are you talking about published content where the end user can no longer play the content because the expiry date set by the author has been exceeded? If so, then you would need to open the original Captivate project file and republish with a new expiry date (or remove the expiry date restriction altogether).
Is this what you mean?

CC 2014 can I go back with a project to CC normal ?

I have a project is on CC 2014 and looks like it have to many thinks going on in CC 2014 can I go back with the project to just CC and how... thanks.

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Help! my imovie project library is full of temporary folders.. some are the ones i deleted.. i tried deleting the folders one by one but when i try to open the imovie, the folders keep coming back to my project library..

help! my imovie project library is full of temporary folders.. some are the ones i deleted.. i tried deleting the folders one by one but when i try to open the imovie, the folders keep coming back to my project library..

If it was working on 10/1, why not open up the most recent backup library with a timestamp of that day. Unless you specified otherwise, your backup folder is in Movies in your home folder. You can double-click one to open it in FCP.
The update command actually wants a mounted drive selected.
I suggest not going into the library bundles and moving or modifying folders/files except as a last resort. It sounds like both libraries are corrupted.
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Backing up FCE project/files- any easy way?

I'm new to FCE 3.5.1 and could use some educatin'
Before FCE was working in Imovie. The project file was a "package" which (I think had the clips, sound, etc. in one back-up able file.
Upon install of FCE, there are folders all over the place: mostly in my Documents folder: Audio Render Files, Autosave Vault, Capture Scratch, Render Files, Thumbnail Cache Files, Waveform Cache Files. Sheeesh....
So my question is: I start a new "project" and save that project to a folder to my desktop, it has the .fce file in there that seems quite small.
What is the best way to back up a project if I just want to back up to som dvd's or even a cheap HD.
Along the same lines, how would I "copy" a project to work on a machine at another location with FCE.
I've seen some stuff about this but so far it seems incomprehensible.
Any help appreciated.
Jonathan

Victor.
Thanks so much for the help. Right now I have the two HD in my G5, on is for apps, files, just about everything, and only has 17GB of space left. My second internal drive I use just as a back-up/parking space for stuff until I get around to burning something to removable media.
That drive has about 30GB left on it, and much more if I delete a bunch of stuff I don't need, so I will make this disk my "scratch" disk" for the large media files, like clips, photoshop, livetype, sound, etc.
The project file (the small FCE express file) I'll work with on the other drive.
A question I have for you or anyone that could answer this: To work on a video project on another mac off location running FCE, I know that I need to copy the project file. I'm assuming I must also copy all the media files as well, correct? Am I just looking for one particular folder that has these things in them? Or do I need to copy every folder that FCE generated as well?
The system at my other location has only one HD, therefore the scratch disk will be the main drive. Do I just copy the stuff that is on the "transport" drive to the new location computer's HD?
I'm assuming that if I do the above, there will be some prompt telling me that there are a whole bunch of things that need to be reconnected. Is that correct?
Thanks again. I look forward to your replies.
Jonathan

How do I move a rejected clip back into a project?

I've been searching via Google and in this forum for WAY too long and can't find an answer to this problem.
I've inadvertently marked a whole section of movie as "rejected" when I should have only marked the last little bit of it. For the life of me I can't figure out how to "undo" (because I've done other things since and the official Undo option is unavailable) the rejection. Dragging from the rejected files area back to the project doesn't seem to work. I've tried iMovie help but it just hangs (with the spinning railroad tracks going on and on and on), so am hoping someone here can help me out. I SO wish I could find an up-to-date pdf user manual somewhere!

PLEASE IGNORE THIS QUESTION. I've figured it out. Sorry for the excess noise on the forum.

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You can back up a GB project like any other file. You can also record directly to an external drive (a 7200 rpm drive would be ideal).
If your project contains audio loops or regions copied over from another file, make sure to do a "Save as Archive", otherwise audio files may be missing when you try to open it.

Auto-Save did not work... Any way to back up my project?

Hello,
I started a project this morning, a set of interviews shot on Canon 5DII. The footage is about 4 hours. One of the settings was to auto-save every 20min to maximum 5 versions. After about 14 hours of work Premiere just crashed. I got the gray screen and the message to hold down the power button of my mac. After restart I opened the project and the time-line looks exactly how I left it at the lunch brake. Since than I saw several times the auto-save performed, definitely more than 5.
Anybody experiencing same problem? Any way to back up my project? I'm desperate, tomorrow afternoon the interviews must be online on several sites.
Thank you.

That said...I have never heard of PPRo Auto saves .".saving projects all the same and to old to be used"
Neither have I.
I cannot find the thread I recall fairly recently regarding how auto-save is operating. But I believe it was demonstrated that auto-save will save even if edits have not been made. So, for example, with preferences of saves every 5 minutes to a max of 5 could produce a bunch of saves all the same. (They wou ld not be "too old," however.
Hunt recently linked to an article (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/477920?tstart=60) he put in the PE forum that includes this at the end:
* It has come to my attention that as of PrPro CS3, things have changed with Auto-Save. One does not need to do an initial Save to start Auto-Save, but if left Open, though no editing is being done, the Auto-Save will keep on overwriting the files at the set interval, say every 5 mins.. What this means is that if you leave a Project Open for 25 mins., have the number of Auto-Saves at the default of 5 and the default of every 5 mins., you will have 5 copies of the same Project file. I do not know what Adobe was thinking here, as Auto-Save should not be active, if no editing is being done. I often have a Project Open, but am working in PS, AI, or Encore, so there is no editing being done in PrPro, but there soon will be. I do not want all previous Auto-Saves being overwritten with the same exact file. With PrPro CS3 or higher, I strongly recommend that one does a lot more Save_As and Save_As_a_Copy, than in previous editions, or they might be in for a rude surprise, if they went to lunch, or just left the Project Open for a half-hour.
See that - and the moral of the story? Don't EVER go to lunch before your project is finished!

Best way: backing up a project

Hi again
I am hoping someone tell me the best way to back up and project to ensure I don't lose everything should my computer, Final Cut Pro X software or hardrives crash.
I have read the Final Cut Pro manual but still a little unsure if I am doing things right.
My current setup:
All raw footage is saved on two harddrives - Harddrive A and Harddrive B. No worries!
I have been using Harddrive A with my Mac to seek footage for the Final Cut Pro X project.
When I don't have this harddrive plugged in, the events in my project say "Missing Event"
This makes me think that if this particular harddrive crashed my project would be broken OR can I hook up the other harddrive (hardrive B) and be assured that the events will reappear? If I have changed event names etc will this impact on Final Cut Pro connecting to the clips on hardrive B?
I have made a duplicate project (selecting ‘duplicate project and referenced events’ option) and this is also saved onto harddrive A. However, if hardrive A crashed I would lose the duplicates. I don't think I can save a duplicate project to Harddrive A as I believe the events would come up as 'missing event' - I'll wait to see what the answer is to my earlier question before testing this.
I am kind of worried also that Final Cut Pro could crash? Is it correct that if my project is saved on the harddrive I can transfer this to another computer with FCP X software?
Your suggestions for ensuring I don't lose 8 months of work and any reassurances would be much appreciated! Thank you

I make it simple. I have an internal SSD. I back that up to an external hard drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. I have four external hard drives with all my data including all my video footage. I have four more external drives that backup my master data drives. If I were smart I would have a second set of backups off site but I'm not that bright. The biggest danger here is to backup something that has a serious problem. When I am in the middle of a project I sometimes duplicate the timeline and try something new or just save a duplicate for safety sake. With a mirror image backup of your HD you're reasonably safe. My four data drives are always connected. I never open fcpx and get an alert msg. Good luck.

Steps to back up the project

I am archiving my entire projects on separate drives. In addition I would like to back up the project without the media and rendered files in case my external drive goes bad so I could use the original tapes to restore.
What are the steps involved?
Thanks.

To back up the project without the media simply copy the project file.
To back up your captures copy the file with the project name from your scratch folder.
Don't forget any graphics/stills.
You could also copy you auto-saves of your project if you wanted to be extra safe.
I don't backup the render files as they can always be re-created, and have unintelligible names.

Backing up FCP Projects to multiple DVDs?

I'm looking for a workflow to backup FCP projects to multiple DVDs. I want be able to put DVD 1, of 3 or 4, into the computer and click something that will put all the files in the write place as if I never took them off my computer and I can go back to FCP project where I left off. Similar to spanning, like with Disco, but I want everything to go in its write place when I click on some Apple action script. Is this possible? If it isn't some little third party developer could make some money.

Divide your salary by 2,000. Then double the result. This gives you a very rough approximation of the value of your time, including how much the company pays you, payroll taxes, insurance, overhead and so on.
Figure out how many hours you'd have to sit in your chair doing manual archiving before you cost the company more than $120.
I'd be stunned if it's more than about two hours. Three at the absolute most, if you're criminally underpaid.

Saving and backing up iMovie projects

Here is a question I never dreamed I'd be asking: how do you save an iMovie "project"? Since 1984, every Mac application has had "Save" under the "File" menu where you could name and save your file. "Save often" became the main way to avoid disaster in the event of a application malfunction. Idiocy reigns at Apple; saving is no longer possible. Now I know iMovie is supposed to auto-save, but really...the Web is full of disaster stories of crashed apps and lost files.
Anyway, I want to do several things: 1.) I want to save my project so that I can open it at a later date and work on it again. 2.) Related to #1, I want to start a new project, confident that my old project is still accessible. 3.) I want to do twice daily back-ups of my working project so that if iMovie crashes I don't lose more than a half day of work.
All of this has become almost automatic in my nearly 25 years of working on Macs. File saving and backing up are one of the few constants that, until iMovie, were unchanged. Apple, in a regrettable display of poor decisionmaking, has abandoned this tried and true procedure. I really hope I'm missing something simple and I have to eat my words. Can anyone help me save my files? Thanks. By the way, no Time Machine here. I want to save these files manually.

Hi:
Michael Brown12 wrote:
Anyway, I want to do several things: 1.) I want to save my project so that I can open it at a later date and work on it again.
Quit iMovie and open it later when you want to restart your project.
2.) Related to #1, I want to start a new project, confident that my old project is still accessible.
In iMovie, menu File > New. It will open a dialog box that allows you to name your new project and set the aspect ratio you will use.
You can see your old projects by clicking the "Project Library" button at the upper left corner of the iMovie window. It will show you all your projects. You can duplicate or rename any project, as you wish, in the library. If you want to edit an older project, select it in the library and then click the button "Edit Project" in the upper left corner of the iMovie window.
3.) I want to do twice daily back-ups of my working project so that if iMovie crashes I don't lose more than a half day of work.
iMovie store the projects and project events in the folder Home Folder username > Movies > iMovie Projects and Home Folder username > Movies > iMovie Events. Feel free to back up those folders as often as you'd like. I would incorporate some kind of naming convention that allow you to readily see the date/time of your backup, but that is up to you. If you crash for some reason, you can restore the contents of the folders from your backups.
All of this has become almost automatic in my nearly 25 years of working on Macs. File saving and backing up are one of the few constants that, until iMovie, were unchanged. Apple, in a regrettable display of poor decisionmaking, has abandoned this tried and true procedure.
Well, hmmmmmmm. Most mission critical software that I know, such as QuickBooks Pro, or Filemaker Pro do not have save commands, as I guess the designers feel that it is safer to have the program do the auto-save after every change the operator makes than leaving it up to the operator to remember.
Even Final Cut Pro, Apple's flagship edit software, has built in auto-save *in addition to* the manual save commands. I have my auto-save in FCP set to every two minutes.
Hope this helps.

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Been having project play back problems for about a month. Sometimes when I open a project the volume of certain tracks is low and or distorted. Oddly if a midi track is panned to the center (0) its volume is too low and if I pan right or left the track becomes louder. Sometimes this doesn't help and if it is an audio track things become distorted.
Although things have been working good for about a year now I think it has something to do with the fact that I have to take the laptop to work and use headphones/built in audio for play back and then take it home and use different audio interface but I can't be sure. The settings in preferences/audio/devises seem to be correct.
I have not added any plug-ins recently. I have not downloaded any new programs recently other than a NI tutorial video (shouldn't have any affect) but I am trying to use a new midi controller but again that shouldn't have any affect on play back of existing track?
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If anyone knows how to correct this issue please let me know its difficult to know what my final mixes are going to sound like and I have had to keep bouncing everything into i-tunes- sync to ipod and then listen in my car radio.

How do I get back an imovie project that shows up in the Project library but doesn't show up in imovie itself?

Worked on an i-Movie project yesterday but when opened i-Movie this morning, the project showed a date of January 13 as last modified date and the project was completely empty. When I look in Project Library, I can see the project from yesterday. How do I get it back into my i-Movie so it will open. Thanks.

Hi Rour and vc38,
A number of others here have posted about this problem, including me. See the following threads:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21157327#21157327
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21177008#21177008
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4748933?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21157079#21157079
It's best to report this to Apple, as the more they hear from us the more likely we'll get a fix (hopefully). There is probably a common issue with this, but I'm struggling to think of what may have triggered the problem. Was it a "recent" update to iMovie or OS X Mountain Lion, or perhaps another updated app conflicting with iMovie?
To report the problem to Apple, in iMovie's menu click on iMovie > Provide iMovie Feedback.
John
PS. Your English is fine Rour

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