Saving and backing up projects

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One way is to buy an external hard disk and then copy all your directories over. Then copy them back to the same place when your format is done. PPro should see them just fine and act like nothing has happened -- IF you get everything back in exactly the same place. This is one benefit (aside from the performance benefits) of keeping all your Adobo project work on a separate drive (say D: on a PC). It makes an operation like this completely simple.
Another way is to do it project by project, from within PPro. Here's an Andrew Devis tutorial that covers this -- the good bits start around the 2:30 mark. The PPro project manager lets you move the project via PPro, to another place (like, an external drive), with interesting controls that let you decide what files move and what doesn't. It's aimed more at archiving rather than what you're doing, but it's another way to go.

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IMovie '09 - saving and backing up Projects and Events

It's taken about two years, but I finally think that IM '09 is better than HD '06.
Now that I am comfortable, have started to work on all those videos going back (yikes, 25 years) and four formats. Hopefully will complete the project prior to getting the "Final Cut" so to speak!!
As I'm anal about saving and backup, I have three copies of the events, and three copies of my projects.
I think I have finally worked out what happens when a change is made to a date in an event, and which projects do or don't show up when you open iMovie.
As there isn't any official (as far as I know) method of synchronizing projects, I would imagine that the best and speediest editing protocol would be:
a) to keep and only edit the projects on the host computer (that's doing the editing) - I have noticed that any changes to a project are ONLY made to the copy that you are ACTUALLY working with on the host computer - and copies on external drives are not altered (unless you select that drive's copy in the project finder) - IOW, only one copy is changed at one time.
b) back up the project to the external drive at the end of the edit
c) as all changes (I assume) are only made in the project, as long as one doesn't delete any unused clips, the events should remain the same wherever they are stored - so, no need to back up once they have already been saved to the back up drive(s)?
Once a project is finished, and say, burned to DVD or BD, how do most people save - finished movie back on the tape, or just one or two copies on an external drive?
I would be grateful for input on "best practices" in this regard.

Great question. I think the issue of backup is a important one, and one I always worry about since I have a lot of video footage that is irreplaceable.
For back-up, it is helpful to define the risk you are trying to protect from.
For example,
1) risk of corruption in iMovie --> I might use Time Machine (but I do not because I have not had the issue)
2) risk of hard drive failure --> I use SuperDuper! nightly
3) Risk of theft or fire --> offsite backup
Here is what I do...
1) I back up my boot disk with SuperDuper automatically to alternate external partitions every other night so I always have two bootable systems. One is less than one day old, and one is less than two days old.
2) I back up my original video files. For my Motion JPEG, VHS-->AIC, DV, and 8MM to DV, the EVENT is the copy I back up. For my AVCHD high def video, I back up the archive of the AVCHD, but I am not currently backing up the Event files, because I would need from 4 to 8 TB to back up these events depending on whether I made one copy or two.
3) I use CrashPlan for my offsite backup. It costs less than $4 per month, and I seeded the initial backup to an external drive to minimize having to transfer video files over the Internet. I currently have 1.2TB of data backed up to CrashPlan, which includes my entire boot drive, and the files described in #2.
4) All of the above is automated, so I don't have to think about it too much. If I have to manually do stuff, I tend to get behind.
You have to consider the value of total multiple redundancy vs. the likelihood that 2 or three unlikely events would all happen at once. For example, CrashPlan could lose my data. My hard disk could fail. I could lose everything in a fire. But it is unlikely that they would all happen at once, except in nuclear war, in which case, who cares?
I am considering adding Time Machine backup and some off-site backup of the Event files into the mix, but for now I am satisfied.

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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Transferring and backing up project + files

Hello all -
I'm working on a project and starting to get a little paranoid about the diminishing space on my system hard drive (I've used up about 65%)
It was suggested to me that I transfer all my logged footage and FCP working files to an external hard drive (I have a LaCie 160GB firewire drive purchased for just this purpose).
Question #1: are there any tutorials out there showing how to execute this process, step-by-step? Naturally, I'm worried about losing everything during the transition.
I was also advised to backup my files on DVD under compression. Again, any tutorials showing how that's done?
I feel like the more places I save the individual files and project as a whole, the more secure I'll feel. Having everything on an external drive with a lot of free space (which will become my scratch disk, right?) AND on a DVD will ensure that I don't lose anything.
How do most of you normally work - do you keep your projects on external drives? But what if the external drive conks out or gets corrupted? Is that a matter of faith or do you also save to DVD as was suggested to me? Do you then save to DVD after each daily editing session?
Apologies in advance for all of the questions (as well as my glaring ignorance) and thanks to anyone who can provide any help with this.
Roop
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 5.1

It is highly recommended NOT to keep your media or render files on your system drive. I'm surprised it hasn't been causing problems already.
Instead, keep all media (video and audio clips, photos, graphics, etc) on a separate physical drive. Since you have a G4, you can easily add additional ATA (aka PATA) drives inside ... up to 3 additional in most models. That would be preferable over an external Firewire drive.
As for storing the other files associated with an FCP project, most people keep the project file on the system drive (along with the OS and Apps), and they generally keep the Autosave files on another drive. That way you'll always have a recent copy of the project file. I do not recommend backing up any files that can easily be re-captured. But I DO recommend backing up photos, graphics, music, VOs, etc that cannot be re-captured.
It's also a very good idea to make regular backups of important files off-premises. In the event of theft, fire, flood or other disaster, you'll be able to retrieve the backup and get back to work ASAP.
-DH

Saving and Backing Up

Hi,
1) How best can I protect my sequences so that if it gets corrupt I can go back to yesterdays? In Pro Tools I'd open my session each day and change the date so if I goofed anything up I can always go back to yesterdays and begin again from there. How best to do this with FCP?
2) Also, as for as backing up is Retrospect still something I should consider or is there even better software that will do timed back each day of anything thing new on a particular drive? This is for my personal studio and this project currently has almost 300gb of stuff. I have some free internal drives and a couple firewire external drive as well totaling about 4TB.
Thanks!

1) In FCP, make sure you have the Autosave feature checked (on). It will save a copy of your project file at the time interval you set. The Autosave Vault folder will be located wherever you assign it to be in the Capture/Scratch Disk assignments. I have mine set to 15 minutes. If my project file becomes corrupted, I can open the last autosave copy and not lose more than 15 minutes of work.
Additionally, you can use any backup program to make backups of the folder where you save your FCP project files.
2) I use Silverkeeper for backups. It's freeware available from LaCie: http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/
-DH
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Captivate 7 - project to HTML5 video (external) and back into project at Quiz location

Hi,
I am new to using Captivate and my company has me using Captivate 7. I am tasked with creating a project (blank project) importing a video, and then returning to the Captivate project to take a quiz. The video quality is not good in HTML5 or MP4 when imported into the project. I have alternatively, linked within the slide a button to the HTML5 video, and successfully launched the video with perfect quality. I have created a button within the HTML5 video to go back to the original project. I see an option to go back to the project, but not to the specific slide where the quiz begins. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Why does there need to be a button used now when in CP 6 and 6.5 it worked seamlessly? Will this be fixed by Adobe and when?
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Saving and printing edited projects

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I purchased Aperture 3 and am new to this software. I have worked on several pictures and got them to the place that I wanted them & have no way to save them. I have tried sending them elsewhere & to my email but the original picture is all that shows up. I know the settings are saved in the adjustments, but I want to save the actual picture and be able to print it or send it. Please help!

I have clicked on Export & then version. It posts the original. I have the edited one in front of me, but can't print it, can't email it, can't post it on facebook. I have tried to relocate it somewhere else, but no success. I am really disappointed. I downloaded this from the mac store. It was installed automatically. I have tried to go into preferences to see if there is any settings I can change, but I am stumped. It is pointless to have at this point. You put all this work into making a beautiful photo and can do nothing with it except look at it in the actual program.
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I will never ever trust saving and back up my files with Apple anymore!

I would think backing up all my files on iTunes is a safe bet.
When I lost everything on my ipad after restoring, whatever I have backed up in iTunes was not able to sync it back into my ipad even if I chose to install it back using existing back up files on iTunes! nothing!!
what is all this synching for if restoring doesn't even work to bring all information back into my ipad??
Before, I was able to see all the files in an app on iTunes and now not at all!!
If I could use strong langauge here, it would be endless!!
My days with Apple is over!

The iPad backs up to iTunes on your Mac. Then, when your Mac backs up, the iPad data is backed up as well.
Or, the iPad can back up to iCloud.
See this Apple Support document for more info on iPad backups:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
A good product to back up your Mac would be an Apple Time Capsule, which is an AirPort Extreme with a built in hard drive.
More info here.....Time Capsule

Colour corrections not saving and not exporting

Am puzzled by something in FCE. I did a whole load of colour corrections, then saved and closed the project. Whenever I re-open the project, all the colour corrections are un-done. All other edits are unaffected. This happens repeatedly.
Also, after re-doing the colour corrections, saving and NOT closing, I exported the project to MPEG2. The colour corrections did not come through on the exported file.
My timeline is 3.5hrs long, and re-doing all these colour corrections is *time consuming*.
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When editing an image in Photoshop from Lightroom then saving it back to Lightroom, how do i get the image to go back and sit next to the original? Mine is going to the end of the folder. Thanks Karen

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Just imported clips and edited as new project. closed imovie. came back later and the entire project was gone. i was not done so i did not finalize it. how do i get the program to keep my project in progress

running imovie on a powermac w 10.6.8. went through the tutorials. imported my clips, got the hang of basic editing, and created a project.
was pretty happy with it, but needed to shut down and come back to work on it later. when i did come back, the entire project was gone.
how do i get the program to save my work in progress, without finalizing it?
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So, everything worked out just fine!
I have all my material in the ProRes Codec on a seperate drive now. The project itself was kept or rather duplicated, the bin structure etc stayed the same but is linking to the newly created files. The playback and workflow is fluent. I am happy!
Time info: For about 120 GB of material the codec change process took 25 hours.
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I have an iPhone 4s iOs 5.1.1, I want to update it to iOs 7, if I've backed up to iCloud will my contacts, pictures and text messages be saved and able to be restored if lost?

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OCD with good reason
With a second backup, as you now have, you are well protected. The update makes a backup to use for restoring after the install but with another you should be in great shape.
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How should we be going about creating and saving and/ or exporting our ODC files using Excel 2013 for use in Project Server 2013 Online?

Hi I need your guidance on how I should go about setting up my Excel 2013 reports so that others in our Project Online 2013 environment can access and updates these reports of mine.
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I presume I need to create and save my ODC files in a PWA > Data Connections folder. I have English and French users in our environment. Do I need save them twice? Once in the French and again in the English Data Connections folder?
Likewise for the Excel file?
How should I go about creating my ODC files within Excel? By default, the ODC files are being created on my PC's > My Documents > My Data Sources folder. I presume I need to get them saved or exported to the PWA > Data Connections
folder. So, How should I be going about creating and saving and/ or exporting the ODC files???
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https://cascades.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/_api/projectdata/AssignmentTimephasedData01T00:00:00'
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\Spiro Theopoulos PMP, MCITP. Montreal, QC (Canada)

Thank you Guilaume. May I ask you to help clarify a bit more for me? If I have to do it for both languages (the reports and ODC files), do I simply copy the same ODC files from e.g., the English to French folder in PWA (Odc files)? Or does
that defeat the purpose? Or, do I need to create a new set of oData Feed Connection files with a French version of Excel 2013 and save them to the French Data Connections folder in PWA? Do I need to have a French version of Excel 2013 to create
French ODC files and ultimately French based reports and/ or vice versa?
I did notice that the following oData metadata command from within a browser produces different results (ie., English versus French metadata returned) depending on who runs it (i.e., French or English user, etc). As you can see I am a bit confused.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
https://XXXXX.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa/_api/projectdata/$metadata
\Spiro Theopoulos PMP, MCITP. Montreal, QC (Canada)

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