Backup Your Work Obsessively

Editing a video and realizing your timeline is corrupted feels like watching your life flash

before your eyes. I learned this the hard way after losing 40 hours of work. Now I obsessively

create backup project files every 30 minutes. I name them with timestamps so I can jump back to

any version. I also export XML files because they're universal and can open in almost any

editing software. Auto save is never enough. The cloud isn't reliable.

External drives fail. Your computer will crash at the worst possible moment.

I keep three copies of everything now. One on my main drive, one on an external SSD,

and one uploaded to a separate cloud service. It sounds paranoid until you're the