Posted by ushere on 07/04/07 01:02

Argo22 wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I work at a local community cable channel, and all of our older
> programming on Umatic SP, has been given to me instead of being thrown
> out, since we have no more use for it, and no space for it. I have
> made it a hobby to archive the shows on to a digital medium, either
> hard drive or DVD. Most of the productions are 30 minutes, dating from
> as late as 2000 to as early as 1980, with varying qualities. Also, a
> portion of shows, were archived on to VHS tape.
>
> Need help/advice as to how to archive them. I can use a set top dvd
> recorder, but leaning more towards digitizing them with my canopus
> break out box, into my imac and using FCP to fix up and archive. I
> don't know if these would be ever used for rebroadcast, but do not
> want to loose anymore quality than i am already loosing from the
> degrading tapes, especially the VHS tapes. I am not concerned how much
> space, either hard drive or DVDs, as long as it is good enough. I have
> thought about encoding it in h.264 in high quality, or encoding as DV,
> and storing the files on dvds or on hard drive.
>
> Any suggestions? This is a very important project to me and i would
> like to do the best job possible.
>
> My main goal is to re-master these and destroy the master tapes once
> they are preserved.
> Thanks
>

set-top. even going the other route you'll end up with the same result -
a dvd.

just use best setting on dvd record. you'll get 2 progs per disk.

leslie

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