Presented: March 9, 2011

Designed to help you make better decisions about archiving.

Each week, Larry Jordan presents a live, online, training webinar discussing issues related to video post-production; often focused on Apple Final Cut applications. For a list of upcoming webinars, click here.

Duration: 50:38
File size: 160.9 MB (ZIP file)
Format: Quicktime movie (1280 x 720)

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Tutorial Overview

Telling great stories visually is wonderful. But what do you do with all the pieces when you are done?

One of the questions we get asked a LOT is: “what’s the best way to archive my assets?” In the old days of tape, it was easy: store them on video tape. But what about today? Should you use hard drives, LTO tape, DLT tape, or optical media? And what about Media Manager, does it work or not? If so, how do you use it?

Making the right decision about archiving is not easy. Worse, it’s a moving target as the answers keep changing. In this session, Larry answers questions sent in by viewers, as well as provide a series of step-by-step tutorials to help you make the best archiving decisions for your projects.

Audience Level

This session is a general overview of the topic and requires only a basic knowledge of Final Cut Pro.

BONUS FEATURE

To simplify finding the information you need quickly, we have added chapter markers to help you easily navigate this tutorial. Click here to learn how to display them in your download.

Content Outline

• • Define Backup vs. Archive
  • Discuss hardware options
  • Pros and Cons of hard drives / RAIDs
  • Solving problems with long-term media storage on hard drives
  • Pros and cons of optical media
  • Pros and cons of tape storage
  • Tape backup options
  • Tape archiving systems for Mac
  • Using Media Manager
  • Picking the right media formats for archiving
  • Archiving Motion projects
  • Archiving Soundtrack Pro STAP files
  • Answering archive questions

• DEMO: Prepping for Media Manager
• DEMO: Using Media Manager
• DEMO: Explaining Media Manager settings
• DEMO: Where / how Media Manager stores files
• DEMO: Using Final Cut Pro’s Help system
• DEMO: Deconstructing a Soundtrack Pro STAP file for archiving

PLUS

If you archive your media for the long-term on hard disks, you need to watch this tutorial for a FREE utility you can use to refresh your hard disks to prevent data loss.