Deleting Original Video File

Once you import a video file into Encore and transcode it can you delete the original file and still build properly or will that cause a problem? I do understand that you will not be able to revert to original if you do this.

In theory it should, in practice it isn't, unfortunately. If at all, you should only delete the source files after you have successfully built/compiled the entire project. Just transcoding is not enough to correctly update the project and states of the assets. There's no guarantees, though, so in all fairness, if you're tight on space, simply getting yet another hardrive and keeping the sources around would be better.
Mylenium

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