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Archiving to QT
Hello All,
I have a bunch of HD 1920×1080 Uncompressed projects I am looking to archive to disk. I am planning to export all files in the 8-bit Uncompressed codec, and simply save them to an external, probably firewire drive. I am going to try to talk the client into backing up to 2 drives for the sake of having a backup. at 230-300 gigs per project, with about 10 + projects I am going to need somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.3-3 terabytes of space. Dose anyone have any ideas of how to reduce these storage needs? any other codec recommendations i.e pixlet photoJPEG at 100% that would give me top quality without need for space. IF when this stuff is brought back on line it will be moved to a Highspeed raid and can therefore be converted back to teh 8-bit Uncompressed format.Thanks for any thoughts.
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Unless I ma completely misunderstanding your post:
If your hope is to preserve the footage so you do not need to maintain the original tape, you must stay as uncompressed and unprocessed as possible. I wouldn’t export these at all, I’d just copy them.You do not need fancy drives for archiving since you won’t be playing back form the drives. There are hundreds of cheap drives on the market including Fantom 1TB for $400 at macwarehouse. That’s about $2500 per project to put two 2-3 gB copies on a shelf. That’s just not much money compared to the risk of losing the footage. (shoot, my first 18 gig RAID from Med
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For the shake of the space..If you can not keep them in 8b Unc I would sugest you Photo-JPEG at the top qualty. Anyway have a look to the web site of onerivermedia.com/codecs/. There is everything you need to know about the most part of the QT codecs and you will find very interesting information.
Salud,
Rafael
PD: Sheer can be a good solution. Unompressed 8/10b and quite small files, but seems they are out of business. -
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