Posted by Tony on 07/09/07 03:06

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:47:56 -0700, Argo22 <markrc@gmail.com> wrote:

Archiving to DVD is an oxymoron. It is like archiving S-VHS to CD-R or SLP VHS. Copy to MiniDV.

Tony


>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

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