Hi everyone
I have just started using video studio 9 and was wondering how does everyone keep their video clips stored once they are finished editing them. I assume they take up a lot of hard drive space so was wanting to either burn them to DVD or buy a separate hard drive to store old clips on. I was wondering if anyone else had some you beaut ideas?
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brinks
I have, so far, kept the original tapes but also copied the edited version back to tape. At the rate of about 13 GB per hour of DV AVI, you would need a lot of DVD disks for your archive. Even an extra HD is going to fill rather quickly.
I guess it is a case of 6 of these or half a dozen of the others. After having been at it for around 4 years, I have never gone back to re-edit old footage. Too much to do to keep up with the new. Hence my consideration if it is at all important to keep the original tapes plus an "uncompressed" edit back up on tape. Tapes aren't that cheap either and surely don't last as long as a DVD disk.
[quote]Hence my consideration if it is at all important to keep the original tapes plus an "uncompressed" edit back up on tape. Tapes aren't that cheap either and surely don't last as long as a DVD disk.[/quote]
I couldn't agree more.
My edited (read: after cutting garbage) rushes for each particular video movie are converted from DV-AVI into MPEG-2 at 8264 dual pass variable and stored on a DVD+R as a single video.
I'm not sure such a bitrate is useful but 4000 wouldn't do the job and 6000 or 8000 don't make such a difference in available storage, seeing we usually waste a lot of space in DVD because the next movie doesn't fit in anyway...
Cost effective and more stable in time than the small miniDV tapes.
Given the present price of DVDR 5GB, if you store them in pvc bags you have a pretty cheap backup, and in ten years if you want to redo a movie in another format (let's say 16/9) you don't have to find a working miniDV camera first. I have lots of old archive documents on 8-inch diskettes, and data cassettes but where do you find a drive today?
For all we know, at least the HDVD and Blueray will be able to read from CDs and DVDs.
I had to re-edit from these backup DVDs on two occasions and the result was apparently as good as from the AVI.
(1) Keep the original tapes as an archive.
(2) Capture to Mpeg2.
(3) Remove the garbage and save edited mpeg files on a DVD
(4) Save all other production assets on the same DVD (audio, images, project files, etc.).
(5) Throw away the capture files and the final project video file because they are extremely bulky and all are recreatable from other assets.
So far, all of my project (except one) have fit on a single DVD, which makes it easy to locate and resurrect a project if necessary.
Here is the mechanism I use/recommend - you can find it in the Top Post under "Downunder perspective" - I added the section just a couple of weeks ago because it is a recurring question .
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