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Archiving Clips With Unmanaged Media

There are two ways to archive clips with unmanaged media:

- Stone mode: the media is automatically written to the archive and becomes managed. This ensures that material will not be overwritten accidentally in the shared storage when you restore the media. When you restore the media, the clips will reside on the local framestore as managed frames. To make these clips accessible from the shared storage again, you must publish them.
- Linked mode: Only the path to the media is archived. You can later restore the clip in the original form as unmanaged media, provided the media resides at the original paths saved with the archive. If the source clip is not found at restore time, it is displayed as a checkerboard pattern image.

Archiving files using the linked option significantly reduces the amount of space required for your archived clips. It also alleviates bandwidth when archiving to a VTR. Using Linked mode, you can archive both video and audio files. An archived clip with unmanaged media has an attached unmanaged media icon corresponding to the file extension.

To archive a clip with unmanaged media:

1. From a clip library, select the clip with unmanaged media to be archived.
   TipYou can use the Search feature to easily locate all the clips with unmanaged media in your library. See Searching in an Archive.
2. Create an archive or open an existing archive.

   (a) Archive Device box(b) Backup Set box(c) Archiving Mode box

3. From the Archive Device box, select the device for archiving your entries.
4. Optional: Click Size Estimate to determine the size of material to be archived.
5. From the Archiving Mode box, select the archiving mode.

   Select: | To:
   --- | ---
   Stone | Write clip to the framestore and archive the content of the media file.
   Linked | Archive only the path to the media file.

6. From the Backup Set box, select the backup set.

   Select: | To:
   --- | ---
   Compact | Maintain a highly organized archive and save space on the device.
   Normal | Archive without using a backup set. Entries are archived directly to the table of contents. Source clips remain in play order on tape.

7. Click Archive.