You don't run into the backup versioning and cleanup issues that zipping a project creates.
It provides a simple "set it and forget it" method of keeping track of your media that doesn't break whenever you move projects, disconnect drives or move the original source media. There are tons of benefits to this system. So, you might increase your file storage, but you most likely won't. I'm painting in broad strokes in laymen terms-hopefully I got the explanation mostly correct enough for you to get the gist of what's going on. Note, hard links can be complicated to explain. At that point a copy of the video is created in the new location. network drive, physical drive), or delete / move the original source to another disk. A copy operation is actually performed when you move the entire project directory off to another disk (e.g. The end result is that you aren't actually bloating storage on disk because only a pointer to the source is created.
Here's a link to some documentation and a video on self-contained projects: Īlso note, self-contained projects use so-called "hard links." This is essentially a reference or pointer based system used by the underlying OS to reduce duplication / compounded storage.
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