Video Editing - Archiving Old Editing Jobs

[GPallan]

how do you guys save your old editing jobs? (just incase you wanted to go back to them in the future for a small adjustment and not have to re-edit the entire vid)

i just finished editing my first complete vid (YAY!!) and i have to empty up some room on my comp to start editing the next vid (the current captured vid clips are taking up about 10 gigs of space). if i delete the raw captured vid clips (that Vegas 5.0 used for this editing job) and the Vegas file itself, i'll lose all that editing info that i spend days on.

What do you guys do? Any recommendations?

Thanks!!

[Jasun]

I use Final Cut Pro to log and capture from the tape, so if I want to go back, I just have to open the file, and recapture the video files...

it knows which tapes to ask for, and without the video, the files would fit on a floppy disc.

[GPallan]

I use Final Cut Pro to log and capture from the tape, so if I want to go back, I just have to open the file, and recapture the video files...

it knows which tapes to ask for, and without the video, the files would fit on a floppy disc.

cool thanks! yeah, that makes sense. i'm going to back up the original Vegas file (only 74kbs) and recapture when and if i needed to readjust the final video in the future. BUT...i captured the video in a way that split it up into 76 different clips (one clip for every pause in the original video) and i'm thinking...if i were to recapture it in the same format, wouldn't that leave a lot of room for small errors here and there (dropped frames, etc.) that would render the original Vegas file useless? Doesn't the original Vegas file (or Final Cut Pro for that matter) require the same IDENTICAL files/settings/scenario to function?

Or should I have been using “set in/set out” “time code in/time code out” points? (which I don’t know how to use btw)

[Jasun]

it's best to log and capture using "Set in and Set Out"

but if you can replicate the video clips closely, it should be easy to go back and polish it all up.

Next time, learn to log and capture before going any further.

[basschick]

i save the mini dv tabbed so it can't be recorded later, and i also save the first capture on dvd or an external harddrive.

[GPallan]

thanks guys. anyone else have any other suggestions?

[basschick]

you can get an external harddrive pretty cheap these days...

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4279704 200 gig for $159

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822161302 $129 for 120 gig

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822151027 $235 for 300 gig - and i've used the one touch, it rocked.

[GPallan]

you can get an external harddrive pretty cheap these days...

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4279704 200 gig for $159

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822161302 $129 for 120 gig

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822151027 $235 for 300 gig - and i've used the one touch, it rocked.

is that what most people do? save their original captured vids to prevent complications later on incase they needed to re-edit?

I mean, a 200 gig HD will hold less than 20 captured vids for me. at that rate i'll be running through HDs way too fast

[Jasun]

it's really best to just have an edit decision list and keep your original tapes...especially if you have a long video.. short ones.. sure, back them up to a DVD.. but it's gonna take a LOT of DVDs for a full length movie.