Re: What's the best output format for archiving my projects?

Yup..you got it. You should also be backing up your individual project files, video and audio so if you have to restore the project and edit, you can do that too. There's also a function in Velocity that deletes all unused media and just keeps the media used in the timeline. That way, you only back up the raw files that are actually used in the project.

We skip that and just have a 4TB backup that runs nightly that backs up all .dva and all .dps file. When it gets full, we offload those to either external hard drives or dual-layer DVD. But 4TB takes a pretty long time to fill up, so we don't have to do it very often.

Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com