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Oct 20, 2015 12:40 PM in response to Lucinda22by Russ H,When you archive a project, it is best to retain the original clips to retain maximum flexibility and quality for any future re-editing. That is, the clips that are either in the Original Media file in the library should be archived with the project in a library. You can't improve the quality of those clips, but you can lose quality by multi generations of compression. There is no need to use Compressor.
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Oct 20, 2015 1:59 PM in response to Russ Hby Lucinda22,Thanks for your reply Russ! By the way, I just visited Boston for the first time a few months ago. Pretty amazing place. My concern is I can't store endless huge amount of footage like that. Some original media files I'll keep, but mostly I'm just going to keep a backup of the final edited project. I really need to minimize space when creating backups. It's not common for me to reutilize an old project anyway, it's more just in case I need to open it up and re-export a new version (either with added material or for a new use). I do keep an export created for Vimeo already. Is there a better export though? I'm wondering if I should use the Master File export from FCP X, but don't know what codec to choose (again it needs to be self-contained as I won't be keeping all the footage). Suggestions? Thank you again.