Chapter 4. Preserving Your Movie Collection

  • Set Up Your Standard Movie Options

  • Organize Your Projects

  • Build Your Video Resource Library

  • Import Clips and Files

  • Save and Back Up Your Files

No good movie creator would dump film footage on the floor, have strips of it randomly hanging on coat hangers, or forget to put the source film and the edited film back into a film vault when the day’s work is done. Yet many people take the same free-spirited, devil-may-care approach to caring for footage edited on computer. Not to sound like your mother, but you really ought to have neater habits in your virtual editing room.

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions

Organization is something ...

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