20Media Management
I realize this chapter lacks sex appeal. Examining the ins and outs of media management is a bit like discussing one’s dental work or attending a two-hour lecture on library cataloguing systems. So I’ll try my best to make it brief.
Backing up your Project Folder
Computers crash, external drives stop working, and things get lost or mistakenly deleted. So when those bad things happen, it’s good to be ready for them. If you’re prepared, it’s just an irritant rather than a complete catastrophe.
All you need is a USB flash drive for this.
- At the end of every editing day, when you quit out of Avid, go to the drive containing your Avid Project Folder. It’s probably on your external drive.
- Drag the Project Folder to a USB drive, Dropbox ...
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