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Newbie needs some advice…..please.
Hi people,
As the title says I am a newbie to premiere pro and digital video; If I explain my dilema perhaps someone would be kind enough to offer me some advice.
I have shot a sports event of approx 8 hours onto 2 full size DV tapes, this event comprised of about 20 individual competitions. I need to capture into PPro2 each competition and archive each competition to a master DVD so that I end up with a set of master DVD’s with each competition being a seperate file so that I can then create compilations of various competitions for people. My dilema is that if I try and do this as an avi file some of the competitions are much larger than others and result in a avi file of over 8GB hence they are too big to archive to a DVD. I need to create this DVD master set of competitions to clear the tapes which will soon be needed again.
What is the usual way to go about this, what format should I be archiving in, how does everyone else create master backups of there tapes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Kev
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4 Replies
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The blunt answer, Kev: Buy more tapes.
Seriously, your tapes are your archival version.
If you absolutley must give up the tapes, and you intend to edit with this material in the future, you should keep the format as it was captured: AVI using the DV codec. The video data is identical to what’s on the tapes. To get the data small enough, you can either split it into smaller chunks during capture (appx. 20 minutes per DVD), split it up after capture, or compress them into zip files (do some experimentation to see how small it can squeeze them).
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Thanks for the advice Tim, unfortunately I have 20+ events to cover per year most events are 2-3 days and each day uses 2 x 270min tapes, so I would need in excess of 100 tapes to archive just 12 months and at
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DVDs are absolutely NOT reliable.
I experienced chemical breakdown of my masters (Ritek) in less than a year. Now I have to re-edit, re-author and re-distribute about 60 DVDs in order to retain my integrity.
Tape, tape, tape, maybe a hard drive and tape.
S.
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I wouldn’t store any tapes on DVDs either.
DVD is an output format not a storge format.What about getting removable hard drives in caddies?
The drives are very cheap (
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