What to do with Project Mirrors
May 5, 2008 2:25 pm Process, Tips
After you burn your DVD and after a few hours of waiting for it, you are left with a copy or mirror of the project on your hard disk. This can amount to a lot of wasted files if you do not need them and deleting them would result in a seemingly miraculous amount of space. But if you do want to burn projects again and again, say after the preview is accepted and approved you have to burn a couple more of the final cut, you might want to have them in a safe place so you don’t have to convert and wait another couple of hours for a single copy. The mirror file has all the required information for your projects and it is used by the software to derive data fro the burning process. Without it, you can copy the master you’ve just made but lose it and you start over again.
