Posted by GMAN on 12/05/06 04:58

In article <12n8grvmpqork7a@corp.supernews.com>, "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
>"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. :-((
>
>

One word, "RAID"

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