Voiceover tracks in project archive?

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DodsonPoston

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Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostMon Jan 18, 2021 3:52 pm

1. I am a Resolve and video editing noob. Thanks to all at Blackmagic for this product.

2. I am using Resolve 16.2.8.005 on Windows 10.

3. I want to create a project archive.

In the project, I have created a new audio track onto which I have recorded a brief voiceover in Fairlight to correct a small section of audio. Resolve has stored the audio track in a .wav file in a <user>\Videos\Capture folder.

4. The question: if I create a project archive, will assets such as this (i.e. those created in Resolve itself but stored externally) be automatically included in the archive, or is there something that I need to do to ensure that the archive is entirely self-contained?
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostTue Jan 19, 2021 5:22 pm

Try it. Then you'll know. ;)
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostTue Jan 19, 2021 5:41 pm

The DR archive command will copy everything into the archive replicating the original folder structure within the archive folder. Very handy.
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostWed Jan 20, 2021 1:40 pm

Johannes Hoffmann wrote:The DR archive command will copy everything into the archive replicating the original folder structure within the archive folder. Very handy.

And this specifically includes the folder structure into which it stores the internally created assets, such as the <user>\Videos\Capture folder? If so, then that sounds good.
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostWed Jan 20, 2021 1:42 pm

Jim Simon wrote:Try it. Then you'll know. ;)

To try it, I'll need a separate machine onto which I can install Resolve. I don't have one.
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostWed Jan 20, 2021 4:09 pm

You can Restore an archive on the same machine that created it.
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Re: Voiceover tracks in project archive?

PostWed Jan 20, 2021 7:08 pm

Jim Simon wrote:You can Restore an archive on the same machine that created it.

But won't that overwrite the folder structure that I created the archive from? I don't want to play around with a potentially distructive operation on the machine where my projects live.

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