What is the best practice for transferring a project a new laptop?
I just installed Movie Edit Pro on my new laptop, and I noticed that many parts of the path way to files are missing and the fonts are broken, is there some easier way to transfer all the program settings all at once? Which folder locations matter?
It could depend on how you made your projects. If you only imported files into a project rather than copied them, any subsequent movement of data may not record or have the correct paths to the data that is required to reconstruct the project. Yo do get this warning when you add a file to a project. The font problem I'm not so sure about but you may have had other programs installed prior that had additional fonts that is now missing. Fonts have a central location within Windows that is shared.
I don't know how you constructed your projects but it's one possibility. See if you have been using external drives, if the drive lettering has changed and try changing the drive back to the letter it previously had. Other than that I can't think of a solution.
Maybe another member has another solution.
Ray
Hi
The 'usual' method would be to backup the project using File, Backup copy, Copy project and media to folder. and then transfer the backup copy to the laptop and work from it.
However there is an issue with this - only media files actually used in a project are copied, if you have other unused media that you may need this is not copied.
My method is somewhat complicated however once set up is easy to transfer projects between computers.
I use the same folder structure on my PC and laptop, the projects and media for those projects have there own individual folder structure - see example below of the 'master' folder structure, when I start a new project I copy 'Blank' and rename it then add in all the media files for that project.
My folder structure is 'complex' for various reasons, eg the video folder is separated by camera to avoid duplicate file name issues from the different cameras.
On my PC the 'Documents' folder is the a second hard drive with the drive letter W: for all documents etc
On my laptop the Documents folder is on the C: drive ( no second drive), however as I use the same folder structure, I map a network drive to the same root folder the projects are stored in and set this to be drive W:
MEP on both computers use identical folder paths ie
Once this is setup, copying and working on projects is easy - copy the project folder (see note below) from PC by whatever method you choose - I use external hard drives - then copy to the same root folder on the laptop.
I use the reverse transfer process to put the project back on the PC from the laptop.
There is no issue with missing or different file paths.
Note for the copying I use SyncBack - I have profiles set up to transfer working projects from PC to ext HD and reverse on both computers. Saves a lot of effort and time as I just run the profile and after the first run only changed and new files are copied.
HTH
John EB