Saving finished project to disk

I now seem to have fixed the 'dropout' prob with various things including a major boost of RAM !
Please could somone tell me how and what files I need to save to disk at the end of a successful DVDSP4 project?
I want to remove the film sequences from FCP5 AND the DVD project from my computer in order to start another. BUT!!!! I may want to make further copies of the DVD at a future time so must keep all relevent things!!??
Cheers
Tom

Hi Tom
you have 2 options, depending on how thorough you want to be about backing up. The one that suits your needs will be to burn all of the used assets to DVD Rom and a DVDSP file. Then you can always access just the .M2V and audio files if you need them and they'll take less time to mux when back in your new project. The other is to use the FCP Media manager to bring your media down to a more manageable size. (Tho for features it's still a fat chunk of data) and chop your edited movie in to DVDRom sized chunks all of your used assets...
If you KNOW you're not going to edit this project again then burn Assets

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Saving finished projects?

I'll apologize in advance if this is covered somewhere else but I did a fair amount of looking and found nothing.
When I'm done with a project I need to be able to burn all images and data to a DVD and an archive hard drive. I thought that binders were going to be the ticket. Now that there are no binders, what is the process.
I've been using 4.1 and really loving it. But if there is no way to save off finished projects in an way that will be useful in the future and also keeps my working library manageable, I can't see how this software can work for me. I am certainly willing to change my workflow but forever growing one library containing all projects is just not reasonable for me. Does each project need its own library?
Thanks.

Morgan,
I've been using separate libraries for each project as a guard against the flakiness that emerged (for me at any rate) when the libraries got big.
My basic plan (I've tried it on a small three day job with a separate library for each day and it seems to work) is thus:
* Make a "master library" but don't work directly with it just yet
* Make a separate "project" library for each job - import images, develop, print, galleries, whatever
* At some (any) convenient point, write XMP files for all relevant images (still working to understand the "no JPEG XMP" impact on my keywording, rating and the like)
* Cleanly import the images into the master library (it reads the data from the XMP and so all the LR work comes in with the image)
* [ Updating XMPs in the project library and reading across the changes seems possible but I haven't quite cracked it yet. For those inevitable "oh I've just noticed that..." moments. ]
* When the project is archived, open the master database and re-connect the entries for that project with the archive medium (eg DVD)
This gives me (I think) everything I want:
- small, robust libraries on a per-project basis, can be archived with the project. When the files are reinstated to their original location, LR never knew they were gone.
- a large, overall library (that may or may not be so robust) that can be reconstructed by re-importing images and XMPs held on backup media if required - a lot of elapsed time but not much interactive time (presumes the database has become corrupt rather than a disk crash or something).
- a reference in the large library to exactly which archive medium contains which project without the need to mount it in order to browse previews.
I reserve the right to be wrong about some or all of this, I'm still thinking it through.
Damian

Error saving a project as disk image in iDVD '08

I don't have a Super Drive so I'm trying to save my project as a disk image so that I can create the actual DVD at work, but after an hour or more of going through the whole encoding, etc. process, it ends up giving me an error message. Does anyone have any idea why it may do this? Can't I still create a disk image without having a Super Drive?

Hi b
To little info to give a true answer - just guessings.
• WHAT DID the error message say ?
• free space on Your internal (start-up) hard disk ? > 25Gb works OK
• what kind of movie files did You import into iDVD ?
To do a DiskImage should be OK and copy to an external hard disk for burning on another
Mac with Apple Disk Util tool or Toast™ - is a way that works for many users.
• How many minutes are Your movie/s and what menu did You select ?
• What type of encoding did You select; Pro Quality, High Quality or Hight Performances ?
• PAL in iMovie and in iDVD or NTSC in iMovie and in iDVD ?
I would delete iDVD pref file and
Repair Permissions and
eventuallt start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
Yours Bengt W

Display image in JPanel without saving any file to disk

Hi,
I am fetching images from database. I am saving this image, display in JPanel and delete it. But this is not actually I want.
I wish to fetch this image as stream , store in memory and display in JPanel without saving any fiel in disk.
I wonder if it is Possible or any used implementation that I can use in my project. Any idea or experienced knowledge is enough.
Thanks

In what format is the image coming to you from the database? If it's an InputStream subclass, just use javax.imageio.ImageIO:
InputStream in = getImageInputStream();
BufferedImage image = null;
try {
   image = ImageIO.read(in);
} finally {
   in.close();
// ... Display image in your JPanel as you have beenIf you receive the image as an array of bytes, use the same method as above, but with a ByteArrayInputStream:
byte[] imageData = getImageData();
ByteArrayInputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(imageData);
BufferedImage image = null;
try {
   image = ImageIO.read(in);
} finally {
   in.close();
// ... Display image in your JPanel as you have been

How do i save a finished project to a thumb drive (IDVD)

imade a simple dvd which has a title screen and 3 separate slide shows all with 1 song each. it plays great on the screen but when i go to burn it to a DVD is took forever and was very choppy and did not work well. i then tried to save it to the desktop or a thumb drive with it still not working like a dvd file should. I am very new to Mac and it may be simple but i cant figure it out. I want it to be on my thumb drive so i can plug it into another mac, go the the thumb and press play. again in the IDVD editing screen it works fine, but i cant get it to save to the disk drive or thumb as a finished project. any suggestions email me at hooziz2005 at gmail dot com ( that i how new I am to mac....i dont even think i could figure out ho to read any answer you guys may post to this question of mine!!! So ill check my email
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Hello, hooziz,
Welcome to the discussions.
iDVD should be thought of as a container that is used temporarily, just when you burn a DVD or encode the projects' data. The media is not stored within the project the way it is in iMovie. All the media used in iDVD are represented by a kind of alias, referring iDVD to actual file when the project is burned. So, if you move any media or even rename a photo, iDVD will not be able to locate it to burn your disk. Obviously then, if you move your iDVD project only, take it to another computer and expect to find all your photo, music and movie files there, you will not, because they are 'at home' on your computer.
If you want to be able to take your iDVD project to another Mac, you need to create a disk image file of your project. You do this in iDVD, by selecting 'save as disk image.' This process looks exactly like the burn process, but the end result is a disk image file, not a burned disk. The media information is encoded onto the disk image file, making it a self-contained file, so that all the media information is in that file. Now, you can transfer the disk image to a thumb drive and move it to another computer with all the data intact. You can burn a DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility or Toast.
Many of us routinely create disk image files of our iDVD projects as a way to save the projects without having to save the original movies. iDVD disk image files take up less drive space. A disk image file can be used to burn DVDs. It also is a good way to determine if you have any problems with the encoding process.
It is not recommended that you post your email address in your messages. To retrieve responses to your posts, sign on to Discussions and click on 'my posts' in the list of options. You will see your post and the responses.
Hope this is helpful. Post back if you have more questions.

Are there glitches in iMovie or iDVD that would create problems with viewing a finished project on a standard dvd player?

Everytime I render a new project in iMovie and share it with iDVD to produce a video, there always seems to be glitches in the finished project. I have gone back and tried to recreate the slideshow, but have not had a whole lot of luck. I am wondering if I need to delete the iMovie and iDVD applications from the computer??? If I do that will it fix my problem or will I even be able to redownload the programs without having to pay for them again? I have spent more time and $$$ trying to get a viewable disc to burn and am ready to get rid of the computer altogether. Hopefully that will not have to happen, but this is a constant issue that I go through everytime I work on a project. Any suggestions???

Hi
Yes and No.
There are Bugs and ways to make better or Worse DVDs - see if this can help.
There are two "Bugs" (or at least one)
• In iDVD - do not go back to video editing program - if You got Chapters set in Your movie - if You try - then now back in iDVD it will ask You to up-date ==> all Chapters will point to Chapter one. Medicine - create a brand new iDVD Project.
• There MUST NOT BE any Chapter mark set in very beginning of the Movie - or in any transition or within 2 seconds from them.
DVD quality
1. iDVD 08, 09 & 11 has three levels of qualities. (version 7.0.1, 7,0.4 & 7.1.1) and iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - BEST (but not always for short movies e.g. up to 45 minutes in total)
• Best Performances
(movies + menus less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD (Can be best for short movies)
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6)
(movies + menus up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
Menu can take 15 minutes or even more - I use a very simple one with no audio or animation like ”Brushed Metal” in old Themes.
About double on DL DVDs.
2. Video from
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not self-containing, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos and the Ken Burns effect NOT is used. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser ( AND AS MEDIUM - not HD etc as DVD then will suffer in quality ) or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly e.g. x4 or x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with Apple’s Disk Utilities application when burning from a DiskImage.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc). For SD-Video - if HD-material is used I guess that 4 to 5 times more would do.
5. I use Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. I use DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW) - DVD-R play’s on more and older DVD-Players
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
(I use JES_Deinterlacer to keep frame per sec. same from editing to the Video-DVD result.)
8. Don’t burn more than three DVDs at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while before next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• DVD is a standard in it self. It is Standard Definition Quality = Same as on old CRT-TV sets and can not
deliver anything better that this.
HD-DVD was a short-lived standard and it was only a few Toshiba DVD-players that could playback.
These DVDs could be made in DVD-Studio Pro. But they don’t playback on any other standard DVD-Player.
Blu-Ray / BD can be coded onto DVDs but limited in time to - about 20-30 minutes and then need
_ Roxio Toast™ 10 Pro incl. BD-component
_ BD disks and burner if full length movies are to be stored
_ BD-Player or PlayStation3 - to be able to playback
The BD-encoded DVDs can be play-backed IF Mac also have Roxio DVD-player tool. Not on any standard Mac or DVD-player
Full BD-disks needs a BD-player (in Mac) as they need blue-laser to be read. No red-laser can do this.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx. 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• How it was recorded - Tripod vs Handheld Camera. A stable picture will give a much higher quality
• Audio is most often more critical than picture. Bad audio and with dropouts usually results in a non-viewed movie.
• Use of Video-editor. iMovie’08 or 09 or 11 are not the tools for DVD-production. They discard every second line resulting in a close to VHS-tape quality.
iMovie 1 to HD6 and FinalCut any version delivers same quality as Camera record in = 100% to iDVD
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JES_Deinterlacer_3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are play-backed by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choice before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
unclemano wrote
What it turned out to be was the "quality" settings in iDVD. The total clip time was NOT over 2 hours or 4.7GB, yet iDVD created massive visual artifacts on the "professional quality" setting.
I switched the settings to "high quality" which solved the problem. According iDVD help, "high quality" determines the best bit rate for the clips you have.
I have NEVER seen iDVD do this before, especially when I was under the 2 hour and 4.7GB limits.
For anyone else, there seem to be 2 places in iDVD to set quality settings, the first is under "preferences" and the second under "project info." They do NOT seem to be linked (i.e. if you change one, the other is NOT changed). take care, Mario
to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
Try to break the process up into two stages
• Save as a DiskImage (calculating part)
• Burn from this .img file (burning stage)
To isolate where the problem starts.
Another thing is - Playing it onto a Blu-Ray Player. My PlayStation3 can play BD-disks but not all of my home made DVDs so to get this to work I
• Secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk
• Use Verbatim DVD-R (absolutely no +/-RW)
• Set down burn speed to x4 - less burn errors = plays on more devices
• No other process running in background as - ScreenSaver, EnergySaver OR TIMEMACHINE etc
• and I'm very careful on what kind of video-codecs, audio file format and photo file formats I use
• and I consider the iDVD Bug - never go back to video-editor to change/up-date - if so Start a brand new iDVD project
• Chapters set as they should - NO one at very beginning and no one in any transition or within 2 sec from it
• Lay-out - Turn on TV-Safe area and keep everything buttons, titles etc WELL INSIDE not even touching it !
TO GET IT TO WORK SLIGHTLY FASTER
• Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up hard disk
• No other programs running in BackGround e.g. Energy-Saver
• Don’t let HD spin down or be turned off (in Energy-Save)
• Move hard disks that are not to be used to Trash - To be disconnected/turned off
• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

What's actually IN a saved iDVD project?

After upgrading to iLife '06, I wanted to burn a new copy of an iMovie project I first put on iDVD a few weeks ago. I've never done this before; always burned all copies at once.
When I open the named/saved iDVD project (both from within Documents and via Open Recent), it shows me empty Drop Zones and a blank menu. Where's the theme/audio etc. I put together when I first created the project?
Thanks.

It is easiest to duplicate a video-DVD with Toast (i.e. a 3rd party app).
With the Disk Utility it is very easy to accidentally burn a data-DVD (instead of a video-DVD), so follow these instructions strictly:
- Using Disk Utility (Mac OS X 10.3 and higher):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
1. Insert the DVD-R video disc that you created with iDVD into the SuperDrive.
2. Open the Disk Utility application (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility).
3. Select the disc (not just the disc session) you want to copy from the listing.
4. From the Images menu, choose New and the choose Image from "your disk name".
5. Type a file name and choose "DVD/CD Master" from the Image Format pop-up menu.
6. Click the Create button. After the image has been created you should see it in the disk listing in the Disk Utility window.
7. Eject the DVD-R video disc.
8. Select the disk image you created from the listing (that *.img is also mounted on the Desktop).
9. Click the Burn icon in the toolbar.
10. When prompted, insert a blank DVD-R disc.
11. Click the Burn button.

Combining several iMovie projects when disk space is limited

I have searched the Forum but cannot find a precise solution to my problem. If it already exists, could someone kindly point me in the right direction?
I have created three separate iMovie 06 projects which need to be combined into one continuous movie of about 40 min. duration. Each of the three projects is 11 - 12 GB in size, and I have only 6.5 GB space remaining on my hard drive.
Is there any way to combine the three projects? Or perhaps some way to import them all into iDVD to make a single DVD?
Thanks in advance!

Computer Rule No. 23: There's No Substitute for Disk Space
Computer Rule No. 24: You Never Have Enough Disk Space
Plan A) copy files to an external, MacOsExtended formatted harddrive.. erase originals; 6GB is dangerous little disk space, iDVD will freeze your whole system while working immediately ..
Plan A2) .. in case you have access to a 2nd Mac, you can launch that device in 'Target Mode' and connect it via firewire ... for 'abusing' it as an 'external drive'..
Plan B) playout finished projects to camera, erase projects, import from tape straight into iDVD.. but probably, again, not enough disk space for those 'hidden' temp files, iDVD has in use (=10-15GB free is min. rec. AFTER importing files/tapes .. )
Plan C) .. no, I don't think there's a 3rd plan .. aside purchasing disk space..

FCE finished project on iDVD photo & video quality now poor

Using FCE 2.0.3 iDVD 5.0.1 have done many movies/slide shows with great results. Newest movie, noticeably reduced quality of finished project, pixelated appearance, although I am using same cameras on the same settings! Recently clean install to v 10.0.8
Used mcjanitor, disk utility regularly and have no performance issues currently. Am puzzled why the quality issues?
well over half hard drive available. 812 mb ram inactive.
PowerMac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.5 gb ram 160 GB hard drive

The only thing absolutely different is that I've done a clean install of Tiger after experiencing a Tiger/Quicktime clash. Reinstalled FCE, Photoshop 2.0, iDVD and Comic Life. Those are basically the only programs I run on this machine.
I haven't changed the photo process, they are high quality jpeg edited in Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 then imported to FCE, as I've done before. Photo is 2.0 mb 1704 X 2272 shot on 4mp canon digital camera
iDVD setting best quality. But I've made a disc with both settings.
Tried 2 different types of discs Memorex and Verbatim which my other--good quality videos have been made from the same stack of discs.
Quick time version 7.1.3. I didn't know you need to set the preferences in there for a movie exported from FCE and burned to iDVD. I'll try that and burn another one.
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PowerMac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

IDVD won't Transition the finished project...

Hello,
I just saved my project using the "Flip" transition setting. After the project is burned the DVD plays the "None" transition setting. Has anyone ever had this problem before or know how to fix my problem? Thanks in advance!
-Brad

It could be media-related.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save as Disc Image...
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=9300

Why does SAVING a project cause a delay/freeze in Premiere Pro CC?

EASY steps to re-create the issue:
1) Enable GPU Accleration in your Project Settings.
2) Create TWO sequences and add a bunch of clips to your timeline in EACH sequence.
3) Apply an effect like "Warp Stabilizer" to all those clips (or, if you have like 30 short clips add it to say half of them) on each of the two sequences.
4) Wait for the effect to finish working/stabilizing and you'll notice the render bar where the effect was added gradually turns from RED back to YELLOW for smooth playback.
5) You can now toggle back and forth between the two sequences easily and play, edit, etc. All is well at this point...
6) BUT!!!!...once you save the project (or if the project AUTO-SAVES) then now when you toggle back to the other sequence the render bar has returned to RED and you have to WAIT for it to turn YELLOW again which sometimes can take anywhere from a several seconds to 1/2 a minute or even more (depending on how many effects (warp stabilizers in my case) you've added). During this delay, you cannot work or even play the video on BOTH timelines. Once it switches back to YELLOW you can work like normal...until it's saved again.
NOTE#1: If you toggle OFF GPU Acceleration for the project and set it to "Software ONLY" then this issue/delay does NOT occur.
NOTE #2: Another pain is that to save the project above takes upwards of 45 seconds!!!! When I turn off GPU Accleration, saving takes only up to a few seconds. Imagine have to stop work and wait 45 seconds every time your project auto-saves!
This delay above is a real pain when I have multiple sequences with effects and after every time I save the project (or after it's auto-saved) I have to initially sit and wait 30 seconds or more sometimes when I go between sequences.
Why does simply saving a project trigger this issue/delay?
Is this a bug that I should report?
I've tested this on 2 different Mac computers (2011 iMac w/ AMD6970M (1GB VRAM) GPU as well as the supported 2012 Macbook Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650M GPU w/ 1GB VRAM) with the same results.

Booo.
Well, thanks Ann for testing and confiming the issue on a PC as well.
Bug report submitted.
Bummer.

Why do I loose rendered footage from my timeline in Premiere Elements 10, after saving my project !

Why do I loose rendered footage from my timeline in Premiere Elements 10, after saving my project on exit! When I reopen the project, the timeline needs rendering again! Can anyone help me with this problem, it's driving me mad!
Is there a fix, or is it a problem with settings in the program! Any help, greatly appreciated! Mike's Media.

Mike,
Welcome to the forum.
Along with the answers to Steve's questions, please tell us about your computer's I/O sub-system, i.e. your computer's HDD's, and especially where the Project, the media and the PrE Scratch Disks are stored. For instance, if everything is on C:\, or perhaps the Project, media and Scratch Disks are all on an external USB 2.0 HDD.
Good luck,
Hunt

[CLD] When do you have to copy the project to disk

As I am in the last 10 days before I take my first CLD Exam I was wondering if anyone knows when you have to copy the Exam project to disk? I am hoping it could be when the proctor says time up.
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This is pure hearsay since it has been a long time since I took the CLD. But I'm pretty sure they do not consider the copying of the files as part of the exam. So it is done once time is up. That's how it went for me. Last I heard, it is still that way.
The CLD is not exactly easy, but it is not nearly as bad as a lot of people make it out to me. Even my boss passed and he didn't even finish. A good friend of mine passed even though he hadn't even touched LabVIEW for at least a year (I mentored him A LOT during the previous year).
If you are worried about losing time due to copying of files, then I'd say you need to practice more.
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How do I package a finished project to a client?

How do I package a finished project to a client. She insisted on having three name logotypes with different effects and three monogram logotypes with different effects. The finished name logotypes are on one artboard/file, and the finished monogram logotypes are on another artboard/file.
Should each logo have a separate file when I package everything up and send to her? Thank you for your help. I'm new at this.

Venita,
This is how I usually do this. I create design framed in a artboard and when I want to create a modified version of it I duplicate the artboard with the artwork next to it. You can do this by choosing Duplicate Artboard from the Artboard's panel flyout menu or by using the Artboard tool holding Alt and dragging an artboard. The currently active artboard indicated by darker outlines and also highlighted in the Artboard panel is the focus of certain input such as (Ctrl + V) pasting coordinates, saving for Web with Clip to Artboard option, and some of the zooming methods like Ctrl+0 to fit in window. You make an artboard active by selecting something in it, selecting it in the Artboard panel which has higher priority, or using the Artboard tool. When you save your document the default preview that appears in programs that can preview Illustrator files such as Bridge use the artboard with ID 1 at the top of the list in the Artboad panel where you can rearange the order by dragging the artboard items.
Now, what I give to a client depends on how the client is advanced in using files. My prefered method for advanced clients is Save as PDF with the Illustrator default preset which saves the same thing as .ai file but has the advantage of displaying a preview of each artboard as a page using things like Windows Explorer windows. For less advance clients for ease of previewing or when comparing all versions of the design outside of Illustrator is preferable, I also can save a pdf version of the same file with each artboard being the default preview by moving it at the top of the list in the Artboad panel or a jpg file of each artboard using Save for Web.
Hope this helps.

Need to reinstall OSX - Saving actual project is it enough ?

Hi all,
I have to reinstall my OSX. I would like to know if saving my actual projects files on a external drive is enough ? Theses projects are made with photos from iPhoto library. Does the project file includes all needed files to build the video ?
Cheers,
Ben.

Reinstalling the operating system shouldn't affect your Home folder within the /Users directory, and so it shouldn't affect your Movies or Pictures folders, either.
Your movie projects should be completely unaffected. Mine are never affected by an OS upgrade.
..HOWEVER; it's prudent to finish editing a movie before applying an upgrade to iMovie, QuickTime or the underlying OS, just in case an alteration to any of these may change the way that iMovie - or the Mac - handles your video project.
So wait till you've finished doing all the editing on your current project, then upgrade. The finished project should be unaffected.

Saving finished project to disk

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