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Created with Adobe Firefly and Photoshop by James Turner
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Final Step
You never know when you will want to re-export a corrected / modified version of this project, so make a backup of it that doesn't rely on OneDrive using the Project Manager. You'll upload your final video and a compressed Zip archive of your project for the last part of our My Favorite Things project. Whew!
It's not hard to "break" your project unless you create a proper archive of the project and asset files. Premiere has a Project Manager that packs everything into a nice neat folder you can then "Send To" a compressed archive. This turns your folder with recipes and ingredients into a single Zip file you can easily upload to your DO NOT DELETE folder, as well as the last GC assignment for this project.
In case the video is hard to see, I've included a large snip of the settings I used when creating my backup copy of my project.
IF IT DOESN'T WORK...
Check your file names - they are either too long or have "special" characters in them that are preventing the folder from being compressed into a Zip file.Â
First, check to make sure you don't have an Autosaved file with a long string of characters in the Premiere project file name. Simply use File --> Save As and save it again with todays date code and without all the extra characters. Make sure it's located in your original VIDEO project folder, not down deep in an autosave nest. If you made a linked After Effects background, it may also have all those extra characters and need to be cleaned up - use the method below if that happens.
If you can't get Windows to compress the folder made by Project Manager, just have Google do it instead. You upload the folder to Google Drive, then turn around and download it again. Drive will zip it all up together for you!
The Windows compressor is very picky - and we can't always find the characters in the file names that is causing the error. However, you can check through your image file names. You may need to expand your asset box to be very wide and expand the file name column to be extra wide as well in order to see the whole thing. Since Project Manager will rename the real files to whatever is in your asset box (officially your Project panel) if you want it too, rename anything here that looks suspicious and it won't be a problem when you zip up the results.
File names from the internet can be pretty weird - from now on we won't keep the original name when we save the images since some of these problems are cropping up because of a @,!,&/% symbol. ;-)
File names can be too long and have "strange" characters in them. When you rename them to something simpler, Premiere may not know where the image went. Here's how to solve those problems!