recommend you save it either in AVI or at least the same format and bitrate as you intend to use in the future. Avoid compression since when imported to another project you wont be able to recover or improve the quality, e.g. dont save as lo-res wmv.
When doing multiple pass construction of multi-timeline work you may want to produce the clip and save the project. Now that new clip is part of your project. If you now clear the workspace and place the new clip plus other objects like music, and continue editing, save this workspace to a new .pds project - don't just Save Project or it overwrites the definitions of your last work. This way you can return to en earlier stage and redo steps.
for example:
Proj1.pds
then Proj2.pds including stuff from proj1 - saved and continue
later you return to Proj1 and see all the timeline(s) and objects which went into creating the produced result.
Maybe you will edit it again.
You end up with a historical set of projects like this
---Proj1------
. . . .. . . . . |-----proj2------- using clips from proj1
. . . . . . . . .|-----proj3------- using clips from proj1
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |---Proj4---- using clips from proj1 and proj2
This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Feb 21. 2011 14:01
If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem