Ensure future success by archiving your projects correctly
Whether you’re a colorist or an editor, creating an efficient and effective archival strategy can make you a hero with clients and earn extra income when the core job is completed. In this Insight, you’ll learn your various archiving options and how to correctly archive Premiere Pro projects.
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Part 1: Archiving 101 for Editors and Colorists
Mixing Light is a tremendous resource for colorists and editors, but since you might only work in one of those roles, I wanted to highlight an important difference as we explore this topic.
If you’re a colorist, you’re likely the last pair of hands the project passes through, and you create the final deliverables. However, you may only have access to the project’s final consolidation plus the deliverables you created.
If you’re an editor, you might be tasked with archiving the entirety of the original ‘offline’ project and potentially all of the final graded deliverables.
The principles in this Insight are the same, but the scope of the files in question might be slightly different.
Who handles the archiving?
The first question you must answer regarding archiving: Whose responsibility is it to archive the project?
