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Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/22/05 00:08
"bmcswain" wrote ...
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> The project right now is just to capture the video and stop any loss
> that might have occurred. I am not planning to price in DVD creation,
> but I could.
>
> The customer has a server farm and just might try serving the video
> across their network.
>
>>>I thin(k) the file format can really be a problem.
>
> THAT is the real problem and the reason for my requesting everyone's
> opinions. What is durable, lossless, and easily convertible?
M-JPEG is a lossy format, so something about your requirement for
"lossless" and your idea of using "PICVideo M-JPEG" seems self-
contradictory unless we're missing something?
OTOH, is the quality of these materials high enough to warrant
the extra expense of lossless capture and storage? Neither
consumer Beta (slightly better than VHS) nor consumer videodisk
(also roughly the quality of VHS) would appear to warrant anything
better than good 5:1 compressed DV, at least IMHO.
I would expect that AVI-DV files will still be readable/convertable
10 years hence. My own archival scheme relies on that supposition.
The HuffyUV is an open-source, lossless codec that will likely be
readable longer than the hard drives will last. But to justify lossless
compression, you need a high-quality A\D conversion to feed it.
And that doesn't come particularly cheap. Although it might be worth
investigating renting one for the duration of the conversion(?)
Again, they need to make the cost/benefit tradeoff decision about
how much disk space to burn vs. what it is worth to them.
When you say "they want to protect their projects", does that
mean that these are videos they have produced themselves?
Do they still have the original production materials (raw footage,
edit decision lists, etc.)? That is what most of us archive, not
necessarily the finished production (which can be re-created
if you have the original materials).
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