Archiving in Smoke

Archiving in Smoke consists of writing your media and project setups to external storage devices or to filesystem, to store your projects offline but in a restorable format.

A project archive includes all of a project's Media panel content, including the Media library, Shared Libraries.

You can also archive individual clips from the Media panel, and the project setups.

Important Compatibility Information

The Flame 2017 family of products (Flame Premium, Flare, Flame Assist) can now read contents created in Smoke Desktop Subscription (DTS), with the following limitations:

• Projects from Smoke DTS can be opened (and converted) by the Flame Family 2017 products.
• Projects can be seen and imported through MediaHub, using Browse for Projects.
• Archives created in Smoke DTS can be read in Flame Family 2017 products.
Important: Contents created in Flame Family 2017 products cannot be read or opened in Smoke DTS.

		Will import in...
		Flame 2017	Flare 2017	Flame Assist 2017	Smoke DTS 2017	Training Edition 2017
Projects Created In...	Flame 2017	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Flare 2017	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Flame Assist 2017	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Smoke DTS 2017	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Training 2017	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Flame 2016	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Smoke DTS 2016	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Training 2016	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Smoke DTS 2015	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No

Filesystem Archive

A filesystem archive is an archive stored on a hard disk drive, such as external USB/FireWire® (IEEE 1394) hard drives offers, or shared storage such as a SAN. The device can use any of the formats supported by your workstation, but the recommended ones are ext2, ext3, or xfs for Linux, and HFS+ for OS X. NTFS is not supported.

Using a filesystem to archive your material provides the quickest method of archiving and restoring your material, which can be of any bit depth or resolution.