There are two ways to archive soft-imported clips:

• Stone mode: the media is automatically written to the archive and is no longer soft-imported. 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 (stonefs) as stonefs 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 media in the original form as soft-imported frames, 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 soft-imported clip has an attached soft-import icon corresponding to the file extension.

To archive a soft-imported clip:

1. From a clip library, select a soft-imported clip to be archived.
   TipYou can use the Search feature to easily locate all the soft-imported clips 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.