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Posted by Pat Horridge on 12/07/06 14:12
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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> "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.
Richard how can you have lost that much work due to drive failure?
That would imply you kept no backups of your edit's during that time.
I can't belive you didn't.
If it's timecoded format you can restore the sequence and reconform the
media from tape.
If it's non timecode you would have course made backups to other drives or
tape streamer after capture.
I agree tape is the most durable but drives are so cheap nowadays making
redundancy backups shouldn't be expensive.
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