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When it comes to fanediting, I'm primarily a Windows user. I use Acronis True Image with an external drive for backing up my main machine, and the backup files are periodically copied to two other locations to minimise the probability of unrecoverable data loss.
But... since fanediting involves working with huge files (at least if, like me, you have source media for more than one project at a time on your machine ) and I don't like having to include a load of often-static files from my editing projects into my primary backup strategy, I exclude the directory that contains my fanedits from the backup process.
I'm not a sucker, though - I have a different drive with enough capacity to spare for a copy of my editing projects, and I periodically copy the directory to that using robocopy.
This leads me to wonder what approaches other editors use for backing up either their editing machines or their actual edit projects.
Another question I'm interested in is version control. In the world of software this is basically a solved problem, but for editing projects I don't think the solution is obvious (at least, not as a hobbyist). Case in point, I'm working on something right now where I have two different approaches in mind, and they are by necessity very different. It'd be lovely to be able to merge changes from one to the other, for instance, or even just track what changes I've made, but thus far outside of making copious notes in a text file I'm not aware of any way to do this. (I'm using Movie Studio 12 Platinum, i.e. the home version of Vegas). In particular those of you who have collaborated with others on editing projects - how do you manage it?
But... since fanediting involves working with huge files (at least if, like me, you have source media for more than one project at a time on your machine ) and I don't like having to include a load of often-static files from my editing projects into my primary backup strategy, I exclude the directory that contains my fanedits from the backup process.
I'm not a sucker, though - I have a different drive with enough capacity to spare for a copy of my editing projects, and I periodically copy the directory to that using robocopy.
This leads me to wonder what approaches other editors use for backing up either their editing machines or their actual edit projects.
Another question I'm interested in is version control. In the world of software this is basically a solved problem, but for editing projects I don't think the solution is obvious (at least, not as a hobbyist). Case in point, I'm working on something right now where I have two different approaches in mind, and they are by necessity very different. It'd be lovely to be able to merge changes from one to the other, for instance, or even just track what changes I've made, but thus far outside of making copious notes in a text file I'm not aware of any way to do this. (I'm using Movie Studio 12 Platinum, i.e. the home version of Vegas). In particular those of you who have collaborated with others on editing projects - how do you manage it?