- Okay, my project's finished and I need the drive space.`
Time to wipe those ones and zeros off my laptop.
Right?
No! Guaranteed, the moment
I delete a project, I'll need to revisit it to
make an update, fix an error, or just lop out a chunk
for another project, something like that.
So I always do future Corbyn of favor
and archive my entire project.
Not just the final video
or the project file.
Everything!
Before I do that, I'm going to take one final time
and hassle saving step by importing the future proof video.
I created earlier into this project for safekeeping.
I'm just going to drag and drop it to the media bin.
Just like any other clip.
Next, I'm going to zip up the entire thing.
I'm going to go up here to file.
Export.
I'm going to choose a zipped project.
And I'm going to browse here to my working folder.
And I'm going to name this something so I know what it is.
Camtasia Advanced, and I'm going to call it, Archive.
Is whatever works for you.
And click save.
Camtasia pulls, all the media from the media bin
combines it with my project file
and stuffs it all into a single folder.
That's the zip folder you see here.
Now, what do I do with this magical folder?
Put it in two separate places, baby.
If it doesn't exist in two places in the blink of an eye
it can cease to exist all together.
Optimally, I like to park one copy
in the cloud and one on an external hard drive.
But some of my projects are pretty heavy megabyte wise.
So I usually drag a copy to two external hard drives.
I keep one in my office and one in a fireproof box in
at top secret location.
Drive space is cheap and time is finite.
Do yourself a huge favor and pick
up a couple external hard drives for archiving.
Then take a few minutes at the end
of each project to archive everything for safekeeping.