split captured file to archive to dvd's

[jwalk2c]

Hello,
Most of my old captured SVHS videos usally equal about 13 gb's per hour after captured to pc.
I now know that I could have lmited the size when I was capturing,
but I would like to split those large chunks and archive to dvd's
without recapturing them.
I am familar with HJ split and it works very well with small video clips.
But it chokes on a 32gb file.
I use single sided dvd's so about 4300 to 4500mb is what I would like to splt to.
I set file size to 4000mb and HJ Split produced 4 physical files but froze.
Tried several times and same result.
I do not mind paying for software to do this.
But I want to have peace of mind I can rejoin them at later date if I decide to use them again.
Do any of you split your files and then back them up ?
Or do you choose size during capture process to fit onto your backup method?
Video Studio 10 and a Canapus ADVC300 capture device is what I use.
I choose file format DV when I captured,DVtype1 .
My file project properties are Microsoft AVI.

btw:Just so as not to confuse the subject more than I already have , I am not concerned at all about my UVS project files as they have already been deleted.
jwalk2c

[Clevo]

Use VS to save the AVI file as a DVD compatible mpeg 2 file....burn the new file to DVD. keep the DVD and delete the AVI file once you have tested the DVD. This is one option if you have no intention of editing the footage.

AVI are about 13gb/hour and the ideal fileformat to edit with.

Perhaps if you have no intention of editing save directly to DVD-Mpeg2 or choose one of many other compressed formats that depends how you want to view/archive them in the future

[Ron P.]

If you are wanting to edit the archived files at a later time, which is what I'm reading, then trying to maintain the DV format would provide you with the best source material to work with.

Problem as you know is the file size. It will take a lot of Data DVDs to back-up several hours of DV. One other method would be to invest in some external Hard drives. They are not that expensive, and quite large now. I use a 500 gig external to back-up to, and there are some that go up to and over the terrabyte size.

Keep in mind that the continuing problem is that so far all storage media is prone to failure.

[jwalk2c]

Yes I would like to save ( what I refer to as my raw file ie:a mirror image of what was captured from the camcorder tape)
Some are already edited and on dvd's.
But the tapes are getting old and I would like to concentrate on transferring to digital media before I begin editing again.
I know there are programs availble that claim to span large files agross multiple dvd's, but I do not like that ideal.
I would rather use a file splitter if there is one that can work with large files.Much the way HJ split works with smaller files.
You would have much more control of how you wanted to archive the split files.
Then you could rejoin them on your h/d and once again have but one raw file to work with.
I have experimented capturing in chunks.
A 32gb video produced 4 files of 4,193,360 KB in size and 5th about 3.224,442KB. That would fit on 5 dvd's.
This is a resonable way. But of course scenes get cut agross the individual files at the 4,193,360KB limit which I can deal with
in Video Studio when I edit them.

I like the suggestion of just archiving to large h/d's.
One could add as many internal as m/board and case will allow.
In XP using SATA drives this works great.
I have 2 in both my pc's currently,250 gb each.
And in one the m/b has 8 pata drive connections.
I use full size tower case, LianLi is my brand, with slide in hard drive bays.
I think they are now called server cases. They are huge.
You don't have to use screws to take drives in and out as there are special adapters included with mother board.
However I imagine a lot of us have hundreds if not thousands of Gb's of video.
I have aprox 60 2 hr tapes .If each were full (which they are not)
that is therotically 1560gb's
Thats a lot of hard drives vs' aprox 360 dvd's
Sure would be a lot easer and much faster though to use hard drives.

I agree that no media is future proof.
But who knows. Some of my tapes are almost 20 years old and play fine.
I don't know the answer.
If hard drive did break mechanically you could always pay a expert to recover files. But software crash ,virus,etc I am not so sure.
Thanks for your advice and any future comments on a topic I know has probably been brought up many times.
jwalk2c