Saving Completed Video

[GPABOB]

I have completed to video's in Elements and I want to save them to a CD or DVD to free up space on my hard drive. suggestions on how I can do this?

[tfry]

What are you wanting to save? Just the completed movie or the entire project?

[GPABOB]

I am trying to save the complete project. I have copied the project to a cd-rw but when I bring it back to My documents then try try to open it with PE I loose all my titles, added media etc.

[tfry]

Your project is referencing the files on your hard drive, if you want to remove the entire project you are going to need to copy everything that was used.
Captured video, images etc etc, It's not going to fit on a CD unless its very tiny. You need to navigate to the folder where your project and all related media is stored and copy that entire folder to a dvd. At some point in the future if you bring it back to your system, you will need to rerender the project as the render files with be lost. Most people generally just save the completed movie tho. You would just export it as a movie (QT) as an example and store that in a safe place.

You only need to save the whole deal if you plan to re edit it at some point in the future.

Let me know if this answers your question

[Baden]

My last project had files all over the place in many different directories and drives. Luckily Premier Elements 2 has the Project Archiver feature which allows you to save the entire project and all related files to a single directory for the exact purpose that you've described.

From these files you can completely recreate your project and start editing again if that ever became necessary.

As far as clearing out files to recover disk space, look in Edit, Preferences, Scratch Disks. In these directories you may find temporary files from your project that if you no longer need can be cleared out as well. All of these temporary files can be recreated from the files in your Project Archive.


Baden

[GPABOB]

Thanks for the info. I going to save it as a movie on a dvd and make copies of the dvd if necessary. I plan to purchase PE2 this weekend for the archive feature. I was hopping there would be an easy way in PE
Thks again