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Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/04/06 15:49
"Mike Kujbida" wrote ...
> bill wrote:
>> I currently have around 30 hours of DV format video, I'm wondering
>> what
>> the best codec is to use to archive this video with to save space but
>> still preserve the video to the extent it can be opened and accessed
>> in
>> original NLE projects that used it before the conversion.
>>
>> I'm not too fussed on quality loss but it shouldn't be too drastic
>> but
>> the format must still be an easily editable format. (ie.
>> Intra-frames...ect,)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> bill
>
>
> The best method is to save the original DV tapes.
> Make duplicates (you won't lose anything as it's digital) and store
> the
> copies somewhere safe, preferably in a temperature & humidty
> controlled
> environment.
> The other option is to dump the footage to external hard drives.
> They're cheap these days and 2 x 250 GB drives would be enough to
> store
> 30 hrs. Once again, store the drives in a safe place and remember to
> check them periodically as drives have been know to go bad.
Saving the native DV (NOT ADDITIONALLY COMPRESSED)
on a hard drive is a reasonable "backup", but the original
DV tapes have a much better expectation of archival life
expectancy than anything you can do on your home computer,
including hard drives. But perhaps I am just bitter at having
lost 6 months of editing work on 12 programs to a hard
drive failure. :-((
In case you missed the main point: Your original DV
camera tapes are your best archival medium.
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