[van6ogh]

Hi all -

I was playing with a friends version of FCP3 and I was wonder how you would go about archiving your project. I know they can get into gigs of space.

Is this even done? Or when someone makes a movie, are the capture files disregarded and they just have their final movie?

[Jansar]

I am an avid user of FCP 3, as I make movies during all of my free time. Although I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but are you asking me whether or not the actual archived movie files are tampered when changes to the movie are made in FCP 3?

[van6ogh]

I guess what I'm asking is how you would go about archiving your movie projects. I know some of them can get to 5-10 gigs or more. I was wondering that when your done with a movie project, does someone usually archive the captured movie clips, renders, etc for future editing or do they just get trashed for lack of space?

Keep in mind I'm just experimenting, but after seeing the size of the files, it's something I was thinking about

[Chuck_star]

ya captured footage is in dv so its very large. Normally trashed after project is finished. Project files and edls are usually saved and if need be. Footage can be recaptured from dv tape.