How to Archive Videos¶

Why archive videos?¶

Fast Video Cataloger has a function to archive videos, providing an easy way to put videos files you do not often access onto a secondary storage medium.

Archiving videos with Fast Video Cataloger saves you space on your primary disks while allowing you to browse and search these videos. You will get a perfect overview of where you have packed away your videos, making it easy to find them when needed.

How to prepare secondary storage on an archive medium¶

An archive location is a folder where you store away video files. A typical archive medium could be a secondary hard drive, a USB stick or USB external drive, or anywhere you can store large video files. To create and manage your archives, click on Catalog in the menu, Archive, and choose Archive Media Manager. You will now see the Archive Media Manager dialog box:

Click "Create" to create a new location or access an existing location to use:

In the Create Archive Media sub-dialog box, browse to the root of your chosen medium, navigate the folder tree (if such exists) to a previously created folder, or click the "Make New Folder" button to create and name home for your Archive. Optionally, you can also write a description of your Archive; or you can do this later.

How to archive videos to an archive medium¶

To Archive, specific video files, use the Archive Video wizard. Click on Catalog in the menu and then Archive, and start the wizard by clicking Archive Videos. The wizard will assume you want to archive all videos visible in your current Video Catalog filtered list.

Note: Before opening the Archive Video tool, it's a good idea to filter your catalog only to include the videos you want to archive.

When video files are archived, their path in the Video Catalog gets updated to the archive medium's location. You will also be able to use the filter to browse videos in a specific archive.