Archives Options

With No Opened Archive

New Archive button

Creates a new archive in the location displayed in the file browser. Opens the New Archive Creation dialogue box.

View Content button

Displays basic information about the contents of the selected archive, in a web browser. This does not open the archive.

Open Archive button

Opens the selected archive or device.

With an Opened Archive

Close Archive button

Closes the archive and returns to the file browser.

Archive Project button

Adds the current project to the archive; this includes every Workspace of the project, libraries, Shared libraries, and the Desktop; also includes all the setups.

Clear Pending Tasks button

Clears the Pending Archive or Pending Restore folders. This does not delete material already archived or in the Media panel: it only clears out the queue.

Archive/Restore button

Commits the Pending folders, either to archive or restore material clips. Nothing is archived or restored until you click this button.

The folder Pending Restore displays all that will be restored. The folder Pending Archive displays all that will be archived. Only one operation is permitted at any given time: you either restore or archive, you cannot do both simultaneously.

Archive/Restore Setups button

Click to archive or restore all of the application's modules setups. You must be at the root of the archive to archive setups. You must select a Projects Setup folder to restore setups.

File-based Archive Options

Linked Archive Option box

Paths archived with the original Wiretap Gateway will be converted to local paths. If you encounter checkerboard clips, use Path Translation to map the original path to a locally accessible one.

Archive Verification box

With Verify Source Media and Verify Both, missing source media prevents the timeline from being archived. With Verify Archived Data and Disable Verification, a timeline is always archived even if it's missing media, unless other issues prevent it.

Verify Archived Data checks the integrity of the data as it is being written to the archive: archiving stops as soon as it detects an error.

Verify Source Media validates all the media, which can be time consuming.

The Archived column from the Details view of the Media Panel displays either the last time the clip was successfully archived, or why it failed to archive.

Source Media Cache button

Include in the archive the media cache of clips being archived.

Maps and ML Media Cache button

Include in the archive the media created for maps, such as Motion Vectors, or Machine Learning Semantic Keyer results. Machine Learning models are not included in an archive.

Timeline FX Renders button

Include in the archive the renders for Timeline FX and BFX.

Cache Uncached Media button

Create for the archive the media cache for those clips without one. Available when Source Media Cache is selected.

Versions box

Select the clip version to archive. Available when Cache Uncached Media is selected.

Default Resolutions

Legacy option. Opens the Default Resolutions List menu, used by the application to restore legacy archives from Smoke 6.0 and Flame 8.5 (or earlier).

These versions did not store resolutions and associated pixel aspect ratios, and the Default Resolutions table fills that gap.

Silent Mode

Enable to silently skip and ignore archiving errors such as missing media from the Cache On Archive option. Ignored errors are printed to the application log files and the shell. If errors were ignored during the archive, a message box is displayed at the end of the process.

Generate Proxies

Enable to automatically generate proxies for restored clips, using the Proxy parameters defined in the restored Project, or the settings of the current project when restoring individual clips.

Generate TOC

Enable to create an HTML Table of Content. You can use this HTML TOC to view the contents of the archive using a web browser, without having to open the actual archive.

Generate OCIOZ

Include an OCIOZ archive of your OpenColorIO config as a backup in case your original config goes missing. This includes any overrides or custom colour spaces from your Project Custom Config. This option is not available if your original config is one of the Flame Family presets (which are always installed with the application), the Raw config, or is already an OCIOZ file.