Question regarding file folder organization

michaelpalmer · Post by **michaelpalmer** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:39 pm

What is the preferred method of organizing file folders with video files from a completed project? I recently changed computers saving all my projects over to the new hard-drive, only to find when I opened up a completed Project (one where a movie was rendered), everything had to be relinked.
This obviously caused many problems, with loss of trimmed clips, missing music, transitions, etc...

I'd love to hear others ideas of organizing. It would useful if there is a hard drive loss and one just wanted to restore the files.

Thanks again.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:41 am

If you are moving a project to another computer then everything used in that project - sound files, videos, images etc. must also be moved and placed in the same directory locations as the original.

VideoStudio 11 now contains a new option
File | Package

When you use this it wil gather all of your material together into one common folder. You should then be able to move that entire folder to the new computer and if you place it in the same location everything should e linked.

michaelpalmer · Post by **michaelpalmer** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:52 am

Thanks. That is helpful. I didn't know that VideoStudio did that, but I am learning everyday, thanks to people like you.

edit: I tried the File|package this morning and it worked perfectly. I can see it contains all the files I was working on. A big thanks again.