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Housekeeping Advice
Greetings!
I need to do a bit of housekeeping with my new edit system and was hoping for a bit of advice. My AV drive is nearly full and I would like to archive my files to DVD so that I may delete them to free up some space. What is the best recommended way of doing this?
Thanks for the input!Kevin Jones
2.5GHz Quad-core PowerPC G5
4GB DDR533 NON ECC 4X1GB
2X500GB Serial ATA-7200rpm
16x SD DL(DVD-R/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GF 6600 256 SDRAM
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What sort of files do you want to archive? If it’s video footage you need to keep then I’d recommend you buy a firewire drive for this task instead of DVD media. Even raw DV25 files require 1 GByte of space for every 5 minutes of video, so a standard DVD 5 disc will only hold about 20-25 min. of footage. FW drives are cheap enough these days that you can fill them up with transfered footage and just store the drive(s) on your shelf.
If you’re considering making MPEG2 versions of your video files for transfer to DVD media remember you’re introducing a big generational loss into the equation. It all boils down to how important your video footage is to you, how much time you want to spend transferring your media to DVD in 25 minute chunks and are aware of the the very slow read/write speeds when working with DVD-R media. If you still want to use DVD’s for long term archiving then buy the best DVD media you can find, such as the Taiyo Yuden brand.
You can always offload your footage back to video tape as well. Stored properly, digital video tape media will last for years. These are just a few ideas from the many storage solutions out there these days. It all boils down to money and the speed at which you can get your raw footage back on to your editing drives.
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