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Sure it works now, but just wait until you try to restore it in DS 7.7
or 8.
Have a go at restoring from version 5. DS doesn't support archives from
more than one version out.
Don't really know how proud of that they should feel.
Robert Reed wrote:
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_ <mailto: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.
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