Re: Worst Crash... Event corrupted, Project files ok?

[James Ewart] "Backups is an issue. I am backing up projects by physically copying and pasting everything into a new project every day... is there a better way?"

Use the duplicate project command? Right click on project and choose duplicate project. You'll find a number of options.

The workflow I've noticed most are using is pretty much how I dealt with projects in FCP 7. But now, it's a little different, and integrated into the software better.

In the Project library, create a folder for your project. Right now I'm doing a retirement video. I'll have a folder called retirement. Inside the folder I create the project called "Retirement v1" for example. I do my versioning and backups right there. If I want to lock a version in place, I duplicate it and call the new version "retirement v2" and quit working on v1. Or, just for a backup, I might duplicate a project and call it backup 1 or whatever. If you want to work like FCP 7 even more, some people put all their other asset files (psds, scripts, after effects files, etc) within the folder that contains all the projects. Works if you've got one big drive like a pegasus raid.

As for bloating, I don't know. I've done a 45min 3 camera multicam h264 native videos without any slowdown. And it was chock full of stills and bullet points on top of the multicam. That must've had 5 hours of footage loaded into the event. All h264. No prores, no proxys. A good number of compound clips for nesting bullet point builds and such but nothing outlandish.

I don't actually copy any footage INTO the event. it's all linked to the folder where I copied the media from the cards.