Archive/Restore

["Robert Reed" <Robert.Reed(at)sas.com>]

v7.6 QFE2a

 

As happens so many times, I finish a project, wait for approvals, and, when they finally come, put the project to bed.  Last week I archived a fairly big project, saving all my media and cache to tape.

 

Naturally, three days later someone who should have reviewed the show got around to reviewing it.  And, just as naturally, had to make a few tweaks in order to justify a place in the food chain.

 

So, I set about restoring the project.  Two hours later, I was ready to tweakify and so opened the newly-restored project.

 

Guess what? 

 

It was perfect.  No unrendered things that should have been rendered, no "media not found" windows, no strange issues with alphas, no nothing except my project looking and feeling exactly the way it had last week before I archived it.  The archive/restore worked.  Just exactly as advertised and documented.  No hitches, glitches, hiccups, or burps.  It was perfect.

 

Now, I have, have had, and surely will have many issues with DS, and many's the time I've cursed silently or not-so-silently when restoring projects.  I do not enjoy working around things that should not have to be worked around.  I do not enjoy hearing how much easier or better I could do something in some other application I do not own and have little chance of purchasing.  I don't like it when the software or hardware goes haywire and I end up the only one left in the building trying to fight my way out of a corner I've been painted into. 

 

But on this occasion, I want to go on record and say something went exactly right.   I'm sure next time I post on this list, it will be with a problem, complaint, or suggestion, and that's as it should be.  But this time, I just wanted to say thanks to the DS development team.  All tolled, more goes right with DS than goes wrong.  That's an accomplishment you should be proud of.

 
Robert Reed
Video Postproduction Mgr.
SAS Institute
Cary, NC USA 27513
(919) 531-7356
robert.reed(at)sas.com

 

P.S.  But just so you don't think I've gone all rose-smelling,  I agree wholeheartedly with the recent thread concerning Timewarp and frame size.  It's a serious shortcoming that needs fixing sooner rather than later.