In my opinion, you can delete all the original files (if necessary, to free hard drive space).

Open the main project from the folder (package) to make sure everything is present.

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Be sure to make note at the bottom of your Packed Project initiation, you can include UN-USED clips/assets in your PP also. After the PP finishes, you can then copy or cut and paste from your various source folders any other assets you might think belong. For instance I do not ALWAYS bring every clip into my library, nor do I use every clip, so that leaves a little room for forgetting to pack something that may be of future value. At this point you can safely delete original materials.

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Thanks playsound, Barry...will do. Regards,
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Hi Dan,

All what have been said of PlaySound and BarryTheCrab are correct .... but be aware to keep the version of PDR with witch you created the project.

There is no guarantee that coming versions will be able to recreate the project in the same way as when you packed it even if all files are present.

I had to start over with animated titles, PiP and Particles with an older project created and packed with PDR11 - which I wanted to finish it with PDR14 - containing animated titles, PiP and Particles. All files were present - also all the .png's for the animation - but it didn't show in the project. The struckture of packing had changed.

Cheers, Anja PDR 14.0.4207.0 / Windows 10 64-bit / Asus / Intel i7-4790 3.60 GHz / 16GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / DirectX 12

THAT.. is a good 'gem' of advice too Anja! Glad you mentioned that too!

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