SONY ES-7
BACK-UP COPY PROCEDURES
If you are not able to complete the editing of your project (news package, sports package, feature, etc.), you must back-up your project onto videotape and floppy disk. Each editing system's hard drive(s) will be reformatted each morning. Please do not save projects onto the editor's hard drive. There is not enough disk space to accommodate all of the users of the editors. Plus, by backing up your project and taking it with you, you are able to complete your project at a later time on any of the four editors. You are not locked into that one editor that has your saved project. (Be sure you label your tapes and disks.)
Needed Supplies: Sony DV Tape (does not have to have memory chips)
3-1/2 " floppy disk
To Back up Your Project
1. Click on your time line. (You need the menu options available when working with your time line.)
2. Select Tools, Back up...
A Backup dialog box will appear and describe:
total clips
maximum duration
total time to download
You can select the order for placement on your backup tape (how the clips will be placed on your tape). It is recommended you keep the default mode (auto). The output signal should be on QSDI Direct (High X 4)-to download them as four times speed. The "control..." will allow you to cue up the backup tape to the place you want the clips to be placed (this also allows you to keep the recorder in remote mode, which it should always be in). PLEASE be sure you do not cue up your back-up tape in the middle of another project on your tape that you want to save. You can save multiple projects on a tape (as long as you have room). Just be careful that you do not erase/back-up over another project.
3. Select Backup
This will save the project (including your timeline) as an ".esr" project file, unlike the ".esp" project you usually save your projects as. Put your floppy diskette in Drive A. Name your project save the project on the floppy diskette in drive A:.
4. Input Reel Name (dialog box)
The box appears so you can give the reel a name. Extremely large projects with a number of clips may take more than one tape.
The editor will begin placing time code (starting at 23:59:20) at the place where you have your tape cued up. The computer does the rest of the work and finishes on its own.
To Restore Your Project and Clips
1. Select File...Open....
Change the file type from ".esp" (which the computer defaults to) to ".esr".
Look in: select A: drive (Be sure to insert your disk in the "A" Drive)
The Backup project will appear. The Clip Bins will have non-digitized clips and your timeline will reappear as you left it. A Restore Box also will appear.
2. Select Restore
Place your backup tape in the Recorder. If you have more than one project on your backup tape, cue your tape to that project. You can cue your tape to anywhere within the project. In the Insert Tape Dialog Box, make sure the "Device Type" is on (R) for recorder. Select OK. The computer will start dubbing the backup clips on the hard drive (at four times speed). You are ready to resume editing.