If you move your files now DS will loose the link to them and you will
have to either move them back or relink to them to tell DS where to look
for them. Once this is done DS will find them automatically. Theother
option is to use the log file to put them back to their DS position.
DS sees imported files as, hm well.. files, and captured video as,
hm...video media. The difference can be seen in the storage folder where
the captured media has a specific name that you have typed in plus some
of DSes own numbers while files allways start as vidclip and then
numbers and letters. The third type, cahes are the media DS is
generating when processing, The cahe files are archived to tape along
with the video media if you choose to.
Andi
Chris Smith wrote:
Thanks Andi.
So If I move my linked files into the project folder now (before
archiving) can I relink to them? Also what about my QT's that I
captured with alpha channel? Is there no way to save it on disk with
the archive? If I move the actaul QTs (not the Avid captured version)
will it save that with the archive, ignore it, or want to commit it to
tape?
I guess DS sees whatever is video files and forces you to save it to tape?
Since I do 30 second spots and would only want to archive a small bit
of footage it would be nice to just save this on disc with everything
else without going out to tape. It seems like it would be simpler
anyways just to recapture from the original tapes rather than archive
from another tape.
*Chris Smith*
*Partner/Film Director*
*Sugar Film Production*
*3699 McKinney #222*
*Dallas 75204*
*214.655.2662*
*http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com*
On Dec 21, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Andi Loor wrote:
Hi Chris,
With thinking ahead:
this is exactly what you can do -BUT to do this you have to place the
files inside your project folder (usually under f: DSProjects) and
this should be done before you link them into the project. This way
they will be archived together with the project and DS will
automatically know where they are when you decide to bring the
archive back in again.
Without thinking ahead:
There is a log file inside the archive that will tell you where the
files are linked from. This will allow you to place copys of the
files inside of the archive and during restore you can see in the log
file where you should put the files back.
The captured video media can only be archived to tape, if you choose to.
Good luck
Andi
Chris Smith wrote:
I tried looking through the web archives but didn't see my
question. The manual isn't very clear for me on this:
I'm archiving our first project. I have elements from DigiBeta,
Quicktimes w/ alphas generated from AE, Linked high res photos of
skies used for sky replacement.
What I would prefer is to have one archive that didn't copy the digi
media because I just assume recapture the few clips from the actual
edit. But I would want the QT's and linked photos copied into the
archives and relinked.
Is this possible? The manual isn't clear about the details of non
video/cache/audio files.
If it's not possible to do automatically do I have to manually copy
the QT's and linked photos into the archive and manually link them
after restoring the project?
*Chris Smith*
*Partner/Film Director*
*Sugar Film Production*
*3699 McKinney #222*
*Dallas 75204*
*214.655.2662*
*http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com*
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