Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:32 am
Charles has very good advice above.
Generally the Project Database has been 99% reliable for me. (The few failures I've encountered have been due to a motherboard fault on a client's system, and then a crashed boot drive on another system.) I'm a huge believer in backups, and that goes back for decades with many different color systems... so at the end of each work day, I export a DRP backup of the current session with today's date, and I save that in a "Color" folder inside the source media drive. Around the time the project wraps, I also save copies of the stills and XMLs from the timelines, just in the unlikely event the timeline gets corrupted. If I'm feeling especially paranoid, I drag a copy of that DRP to a thumbdrive and take it home with me. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had to use the backups, but it's happened. It took me longer to type this paragraph than it does to do a backup, so learn from this experience.
I know people who have lost edit sessions, manuscripts, notes, source files, financial information, all due to no backups, and it can been disastrous. External hard drives are so cheap, and cloud storage is so fast and prevalent these days, it's easier than ever to rely on them to avoid any problem.
marc wielage, csi • VP/color & workflow • chroma | hollywood