In my opinion, an external hard drive is essential. Portable hard drives are very large now. What I do is put a velcro strip on my laptop lid, and on the ext hard drive. The ext drive hangs nicely on the lid and I can still be mobile, yet have an extra couple of hundred gb.
Either way, an external hard drive is the safest way to store a lifetime of memories, and back up ALL your info.
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So will drag and drop work....meaning will it actually copy the clip or do I need to save the clip to the xternal hard drive? and then import it back into PD6. Not sure how the paths of PD6 works.
Also how big of external should I get? I'm looking at Lacie 1Tb hispeed usb drive.
thank you again
geneva

I have a Lacie external HD that I bought about 3 years ago (160 GB). It has become my primary drive when it comes to images, music and video. I store everything there, it works like a charm when accesing files from PD. I should add that I don't work for Lacie or Pd for that matter, lol, and that this is not a commercial. I believe Lacie is an european company. No more error messages!
No more crashes!
Great looking videos!!

Yes but I'm trying to understand how to save it to external drive. Not sure how PD6 paths work.

When I save the clip do I save it directly to the external hard drive or do I save it to my computer and then drag to hard drive.

Because I would like to get my clips and save them to the xternal drive and then erase it from my computer.

Not sure I'm explaining it correctly.

thanks for your help

geneva

Hi Geneva,

External Hard Drives are reasonably cheap to buy and with the USB2 connection a simple and effective way to store and to transfer from media files.

In PD6 you can Export a whole project and select where on your PC (Hard Drives) you want to store the information. The Export of the information will store every media file used to create the project.

Open PD6 with project in the time-line
File > Export > Pack Project Materials
Select the Hard Drive you want to save it to.
Create a new folder and save.

As for saving to a portable Hard Drive - just use Copy and Paste to transfer files. When creating a finished project (mpeg files for example) you can select to save to the portable or any location.

Open PD6
Select Edit (NOT the PD6 video editing section) > Preferences > File tab and alter the location of where you source media from and produce/save to > Import and Export directory.

I hope the additional information helps

Dafydd

Dafydd,
does PPMat export the files, or copies of them? Also, does it create/alter the Project File in case one might wish to do just ONE MORE EDIT?
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Hi Barry,

I can answer that one for you, and get in before Dafydd.

I PPM projects all the time for transfer between desktop and laptop, it copies the file, and yes you can continue editing when unpacked

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Man o man u fellas R so smart. I wish I had a day to scan your brains and could retain everything in them. R better yet...scan your brains and save the info into my external hard drive. LOL....~_~

Thank you all so very much...And now I'm off to create and save!!!!

geneva
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PS: Did I tell ya all that u R AWESOME!!!!

Steady girl steady....

I'm trying to figure out a way to hide your last posting from Armano, Barry and Robert 'cos they might not be able to cope ... they'll need to recover from the "u R AWESOME!!!!" moment...shock



Dafydd

Too late!
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