Adriane First I create a project-named directory on the D drive and make sub-directories for Cam1, 2, 3, & 4 (when appropriate), and for the resource files (digital Juice, photos, audio, artwork, etc.). Then I unload the camera files into the camera directories. When it is time to start a Premiere project, PPro defaults to allocations used in the past therefore I do not re-specify disk allocations for each new project. The system disk and Premiere's media cache use drive C, the camera files are on drive D, the PPro project is on E and the Preview files go to F, which is also where I export files for Encore. I do not know whether this is "ideal" - actually I'm uncertain about the wisdom of letting the media cache be on the system drive. Additionally, I don't know how often the project file is referenced - certainly for Save's but I'm not sure when else, so it may not benefit much from having its own drive. Nevertheless everything seems to function just fine. When it is time to archive I use Windows Explorer and merely drag the project-named directory on the D-drive to a main Archive directory on one of the NAS's (configured as RAID 5), and also copy the PPro project file from the E drive to the same project-named directory on the NAS. Simple for me to do and it keeps everything together. I haven't read about PPro's built-in capabilities and therefore do not know whether using it would provide advantages. Your disk allocation has the right idea but you didn't mention about the preview files. Building preview files can be disk-intensive so it is advantageous to have them go to a drive separate from the raw video files. Lee From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adriane Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Re: Finding/saving/collecting all project files- issues!! Lee, using USB2 external drive.i think it may be esata-enabled- i will check. can you tell me your set-up as far as managing the project files? please detail- for instance, you are about to star a new project- you go to the preferences and ..? i'm thinking that, on our system- the main drive - C - is the working drive-meaning where the processing takes place, correct? so we would keep all raw video files on, say, the D drive, and save project on drive E.is this E drive where we should save the actual .ppj Project fileitself? is this correct? so an ideal setup would be 3 separate physical drives?
--- In [email protected] <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> , "Lee Menningen" <l_mennin...@...> wrote: > > For A below, is this via a USB port? I ask since USB is much slower than > eSATA. > For B below, I copy the project file into an archive "top" directory, then > all raw camera files (along with other resources such as audio or background > files) under it using the same directory hierarchy as the originals, onto a > NAS. I have tested recovery - this involves merely running the project and > letting Premiere complain that it can't find the files. It asks for a > missing file location, and you enter the new location - it will on its own > find all subsequent files in that location so it is not a tedious process at > all even with hundreds of files. > > Lee > > From: [email protected] <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> ] > On Behalf Of Adriane > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:29 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [AP] Re: Finding/saving/collecting all project files- issues!! > A. . . We were copying to a separate physical drive (an external 750 gb > drive). > B. . . How do you all handle saving/archiving the complete project & all > associated files? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
