Nothing kills the desire to do AMV's

[Krahn Riosto]

Same thing happened to me last year around february. I didn't have any finished works, however so it was nothing irreplacable. :/

[CerebralAssamite]

Just some advice, if you ever work with premiere and you lose your work but have an actual exported version, use it as a reference and dont use it to try and recover the amv you lost.. its just such a pain in the ass..

[SQ]

you could do it a bit more professional like and have a external drive that you put all your stuff on.

My Editing professor was telling me thats how he does it.
That is, if you really are gonna be doing this relgigiously.

Even go so far as to make a computer Stickly for your AMV making. but that might be taking it a little far.

Waste of time.

Let me tell you about my story.

I was working on two AMVs at the time. One an eva video; my first ever. The other a trigun video, which I was determined ot make my opus.

Some shit happened, and I knew I had to reformat to save everyting. So, being smart, I burned everything onto CDs.

Only problem was, despite all the hours of effort to get every single file down, I must have missed a few, because a majority of the files didn't work. The eva project survived somehow, but the only things that would work for my trigun opus was the last, horrible quality WMV beta.

I happen to hate trigun, so I just uploaded the beta, told everyone what happened, and that since it was 99.9% done (I wa sin the "tweaking the final edits" part of the project) they'd just have to deal with it, because I wasn't making it again.

I bought an external harddrive so I wouldn't have to deal witht he shit again.

Low and behold.

Not even a year later.

Everything on the External Harddrive(except that damn eva video..).

The harddrive died randomly.
It made a high pitched noise, and it was gone forever.

No getting the files back.

Another AMV ruined. Another unfinished beta upload to the org I wasn't going to bother to finish.

External HDs != solution.
They only create dependence. =(

[Willen]

External hard drives are still hard drives and hard drives can fail. What professionals do is make backups. Well, someone that handles the IT department stuff makes backups. Whether it's on tape, optical media or another hard drive, if it is critical, you should back it up and keep it somewhere else, preferably. Off-site if you are really playing safe.

The easiest solution is to use an external hard drive as a backup drive and using backup software update it every week. The cheapest solution is to backup stuff to CD or DVD. Hell, media nowadays is pretty cheap so there should be no excuse not to do it. Just make sure you use good quality media.

Now, you can use RAID arrays to make sure your data on your computer is safe, but the most secure RAID arrays cost a lot since they involve many, many hard drives. But a mirror array can get you back up and running right away. Although, the first thing you should do is make backups since many RAID arrays use the same hard drive models from the same manufacturer and are probably from the same batch so if one fails, the rest will probably fail soon too.

Or, just live carefree and let what happens, happen.

[TaranT]

External HDs != solution.

Works for me. I also use flash mem-sticks to back up working copies of project files after each session.

You could use that new DVD-RAM drive for your backups.

[Infinity Squared]

Yeah, I'm external hdd person... kind of have to when working with a laptop. And not once have they failed me before (I've got a couple running right now). I never buy the externals which are complete. I'd rather buy a separate external case, buy a separate normal hdd, and put them two together... it's tons cheaper too and a bit more scalable as I can swap hdd too (I have a caddy system where I insert hdds like they are a floppy disk )

[AMV_4000]

because of this post i have backed up my videos onto 3 dvds, and onto both of my comps (it took up 3 dvds for all of my vids and some betas) only problem... When i finish another video i have to burn another DVD... so... I'm just gunna keep all of my vids on both comps.. less likely to lose them that way...

[gurukast]

with yah on the External HDs != solution bit...

because of this post i have backed up my videos onto 3 dvds,

good! Could never be too careful

I mean, you know you work sometimes months on a video... I am sure a a lot of you will cringe at the tought of having to do a major video over from scratch..

so every couple of days, email to a gmail, copied to a 30gigs mail account. everyones happy

[SQ]

External HDs != solution.

Works for me. I also use flash mem-sticks to back up working copies of project files after each session.

You could use that new DVD-RAM drive for your backups.

Well, usb drives aren't big enough for me. I work with all the vobs, and if you can't have everything in one spot, it's kind of worthless.

I had a 300gb external HD, and the thing with external HDs is, if you buy them external(and not place them in a tray yourself, like someone else mentioned) not only do they cost more, they can only write to the disk do many times, which is signifigantly less times than a normal, internal HD.

Right now, I have two extra internal HDs, and they're working very well for me right now.

I'll use DVD-RAM if I ever figure out how to use it properly xD

That's why I started that whole thread; because I was interested.

[Knowname]

When my mind is verlaoded/stuck on one, i tend to start another...

when that happens to me I force myself to sit there and stare at it until I think it doesn't suck anymore ;p. Only thing stopping me from working on my vid is me thinking it sucks, I can't work on a video that sucks... it's an art thing. You should do this, it works *caution, no life and no immediate plans are a prerequisitte as delirium may momentarily set in*