Tutorials & Tips to Help You Upgrade Smoothly
With a great many Casablanca colleagues in North America receiving their envelopes with the new OS software and activation codes for both Smart Edit V9 and Bogart SE V3 (members of Club Casablanca... other can purchase the OS upgrade on June 1, 2010) - I am receiving emails all about upgrading.
"Is it possible to do an update rather than a full install?"
Let me take a moment and address these good questions and point you to resources already available on my website that provide you with comprehensive information on these topics.
"What Are the New Functions/Features in Smart Edit 9 or Bogart 3?"
There are some great new features and functions made possible with these two upgrades - you can view the streaming video recording of the February 2010 Casablanca Expert Webinar to learn the new options in these OS ugprades. You can even download the 16-page PDF owners manual for these two OS upgrades on my website now: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20100210
"Is it possible to do an update rather than a full install?"
Well, actually yes. You can perform an update, keeping your video & audio files, all project intact with both these OS versions (assuming you are upgrading from a recent OS). But Tech Support recommends (and so do I) that you do a clean install - meaning you will lost all project data. This wipes the hard drive clean of any possible 'bugs' that a previous OS may have had, and also de-fragments your hard drive. I know for me this also 'forces' me to do some 'spring cleaning' of my video projects.
"How can I save my custom archives?"
Backup/Restore Archives
I recommend to all Casablanca colleagues that they should archive/save your archives. If you have created your own custom color/s, archived titles, archived certain special effects settings and (to me, the biggest and most important) archived your own DVD menu templates (available on Arabesk 4) you should use the use the Back-up/Restore Archives function in the System Settings Menu. This process is detailed in a short tutorial on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090613
Bogart OS - Software Activation Code Export/Import
This is for Bogart systems only - to avoid spending a considerable amount of time after you perform a clean installation, make certain you back-up (export) the activation codes for your software. If not, after the upgrade you'll be needing to re-type the 12-digit activation codes for all the software you have on your editor! (Smart Edit units save the activation codes on the internal system so you don't have to worry about this step). You will find a short tutorial (you can print it out) on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090820
"How can I back-up my projects?"
There are several different options for backing-up your projects on today's Casablanca editor. If you are on a Bogart OS editor, I believe the best choice is to use the Bogart HD Backup (add-on software). This function is detailed in this tutorial: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090909
If you're using a Smart Edit OS Casablanca, or on Bogart and don't have the Bogart HD Backup software - you may wish to consider the Storyboard Archives. This function and the other options (backup to DV tape) and covered in my previous Casablanca Expert Webinar titled ' All About Archiving'. You'll find this streaming video on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090912_1
And for the 'Full Monty' on archiving for your Casablanca, you can check out all the resources presented for that webinar on in my Public Webinar Archives here.
Scroll down to the session titled:
Casablanca Webinar - General Session
Episode 15
Held Tuesday 9/08/09
Bogart 'Emergency' Monitor Switch
And lastly if you are working on a Bogart OS editor, and you perform a clean install (destructive installation) you will want to have this handy - it's the process that enables you to use your Trackball to reset your monitor display output. When you perform a clean install - it sometimes resets the monitor display. Some folks find that they are fine until they go over to Media Manager and get a blank screen. This procedure will allow you to get your menu/s back:
http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090821_3
With a great many Casablanca colleagues in North America receiving their envelopes with the new OS software and activation codes for both Smart Edit V9 and Bogart SE V3 (members of Club Casablanca... other can purchase the OS upgrade on June 1, 2010) - I am receiving emails all about upgrading.
"Is it possible to do an update rather than a full install?"
"How can I save my video projects"
"What about my custom archives?"
Let me take a moment and address these good questions and point you to resources already available on my website that provide you with comprehensive information on these topics.
"What Are the New Functions/Features in Smart Edit 9 or Bogart 3?"
There are some great new features and functions made possible with these two upgrades - you can view the streaming video recording of the February 2010 Casablanca Expert Webinar to learn the new options in these OS ugprades. You can even download the 16-page PDF owners manual for these two OS upgrades on my website now: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20100210
"Is it possible to do an update rather than a full install?"
Well, actually yes. You can perform an update, keeping your video & audio files, all project intact with both these OS versions (assuming you are upgrading from a recent OS). But Tech Support recommends (and so do I) that you do a clean install - meaning you will lost all project data. This wipes the hard drive clean of any possible 'bugs' that a previous OS may have had, and also de-fragments your hard drive. I know for me this also 'forces' me to do some 'spring cleaning' of my video projects.
"How can I save my custom archives?"
Backup/Restore Archives
I recommend to all Casablanca colleagues that they should archive/save your archives. If you have created your own custom color/s, archived titles, archived certain special effects settings and (to me, the biggest and most important) archived your own DVD menu templates (available on Arabesk 4) you should use the use the Back-up/Restore Archives function in the System Settings Menu. This process is detailed in a short tutorial on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090613
Bogart OS - Software Activation Code Export/Import
This is for Bogart systems only - to avoid spending a considerable amount of time after you perform a clean installation, make certain you back-up (export) the activation codes for your software. If not, after the upgrade you'll be needing to re-type the 12-digit activation codes for all the software you have on your editor! (Smart Edit units save the activation codes on the internal system so you don't have to worry about this step). You will find a short tutorial (you can print it out) on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090820
"How can I back-up my projects?"
There are several different options for backing-up your projects on today's Casablanca editor. If you are on a Bogart OS editor, I believe the best choice is to use the Bogart HD Backup (add-on software). This function is detailed in this tutorial: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090909
If you're using a Smart Edit OS Casablanca, or on Bogart and don't have the Bogart HD Backup software - you may wish to consider the Storyboard Archives. This function and the other options (backup to DV tape) and covered in my previous Casablanca Expert Webinar titled ' All About Archiving'. You'll find this streaming video on my website here: http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090912_1
And for the 'Full Monty' on archiving for your Casablanca, you can check out all the resources presented for that webinar on in my Public Webinar Archives here.
Scroll down to the session titled:
Casablanca Webinar - General Session
Episode 15
Held Tuesday 9/08/09
Bogart 'Emergency' Monitor Switch
And lastly if you are working on a Bogart OS editor, and you perform a clean install (destructive installation) you will want to have this handy - it's the process that enables you to use your Trackball to reset your monitor display output. When you perform a clean install - it sometimes resets the monitor display. Some folks find that they are fine until they go over to Media Manager and get a blank screen. This procedure will allow you to get your menu/s back:
http://www.casablancaexpert.com/articles/20090821_3
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