07-25-2024, 06:25 PM
clay wrote:
good article. I think about this stuff all the time with archived projects. Even just stuff that sits on my shelves. 10-15 years after a project is done, would I even be able to open it to change something, or would we need to start from scratch? I think about video projects that I did in classic Final Cut Pro. I still have 1 vintage Mac available if it came to that, but I probably would be recreating edits, transitions, titles, graphics, etc. Same story with audio, as noted in the article. I've stuck with the same DAW since I started back in 2007 (Digital Performer), but I have to imagine that projects I did back then would be somewhat tricky to open up again (even without any plugins in play) to update those mixes.
Fortunately, I don't often get calls to "update" mixes or videos. More often it's to grab some source material to use again elsewhere. I did get a call this spring to pull out a session from 2014 for a client, and I was able to open it up on my current machine with few issues.
I have two Macs for this reason, one that can go all the way back to Leopard.
I figure it'll be one of my projects in the next decade to properly archive all of our old digital photos.