Posted by webpa on 05/13/07 15:06

On May 11, 9:27 am, Stuart McKears <drop@!$!mckears.delobvious.com>
wrote:
> I have just completed a feature length documentary, see below, about a local
> journalist.
>
> Sadly, she was diagnosed with cancer just after principal photography was
> completed and died last year.
>
> Her family have been most supportive of this film, though naturally it has been
> much delayed, and I have willing agreed to their request to have a copy of all
> the source tapes.
>
> There are about 86 tapes (DVcam PAL) all on a RAID array at present, that's
> somewhere between 55 to 60 hours.
>
> I suspect that the only choice I have is to go to mpeg and burn onto DVDs though
> this is going to take forever even using a temporarily dedicated machine.
>
> Any thoughts on other options and/or what's the maximum hours/quality tradeoff
> for a DVD fit for this purpose?
>
> regards
>
> Stuart
>
> www.mckears.comwww.cyclewriter.org- Charity Premiere - May 26th

Buy a consumer DVD recorder (set-top) having a IEEE-1394 input. Set
for "1-hour" speed (about 9 mbps). Play video on computer out via
'1394 port to the recorder. This is a 1:1 process (1 hour per hour of
video); but is probably about the best you can do .

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