Recently, I moved a bunch of my clips from my hard drive to a removable drive and noticed that all my clips were n olonger linked in my video project. This got me thinking; if i was to save my clips to my portable hard drive, I could move them from machine to machine and the link would never be broken. How can i open the project file on another machine? I can't seem to find the option to export the project data. Making this flexible would allow me to work on different machines, as well as edit on a laptop on my kitesurfing trips. I could edit on a low quality laptop and then export using my massive machine when i got home.
I was just about to post an identical question, except my main PC at home is Win 8.1 and the Notebook I take on my motorcycle trips is Win 7. I tried to find the location of the database that VE stores all the clip/edit info as this would need to be accessed by either computer.
Cloud storage wouldn't work for me as I probably wouldn't have internet access when I'd want to edit new video on a road trip.
Getting to the database (letting VE believe it's the standard location) and to the clips (letting VE believe it's the same location as on the original PC) is a challenge. If you can get VE to believe the other PC's database is it's own, you need also VE to believe the clips are in the same location as on the original PC. VE stores both the movie location as the clip location in it's database.
Another option: Copy the complete database and the clips directory from one PC to another, in a way that the path for both PC's are the same. If you want to only copy/move one movie, you need to dig in. The movies and the clips have large-number-name-directories, you need to search and test for the right ones.
You can find the database here: C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Garmin\VIRB Edit\Database\2 Be aware that changing things in the database might cause damage that can't be restored.
That, of course, is a design flaw in VIRB Edit. There's no reason that all the information that VIRB Edit would need to edit a given project can't be kept in the same place: clips, GPS tracks, other metadata. On a Mac, they could all be kept in a directory hierarchy that looks like a single file to a user (all Applications are just such things, I think the generic term is "packages"), and could be double-clicked to open, etc. Then you could move that single file as you wished, offload it to a removable external drive and move it and edit it on another machine, whatever.
+1 PowerDirector likes to call them projects. Basecamp has the same flaw...a database. Besides this Basecamp copies all your VIRB pictures (virb connected and BS active) to it's hidden database, just to fill your HDD as fast as it can.
