From: Jorge Amaro (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 13:59:53 PDT
If you're aiming for HDD storage i'd go for this codec:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
its way better than mpeg2
2008/9/24 Steven Ball <email suppressed>:
> Hi Matt,
> If you intend to archive the material I would definitely not simply 'dump'
> to DVD. That's OK for viewing copies but for the longer term DVDs are not
> very robust or reliable and MPEG-2 compression is lossy and dogged by
> artefacts. Better to store the material on hard drive (or hard drives,
> keeping clones as back ups on other drives). A good video standard would be
> DV-PAL QuickTime (or DV-NTSC if you're in the USA) - non-Mac folks will be
> able to advise about AVI files, etc. It sounds like you have about 50 hours
> of material, with DV files at around 13 Gb per hour you would need 650Gb for
> all the material, so a pair of Terabite hard drives should be enough. Make
> sure you turn the drives on at least once a month to stop them seizing up.
> It would be a very good idea to also make tape copies to a good archival
> format like Digibeta.
> Steven
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> On 24 Sep 2008, at 19:23, Matthew Geiger wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone-
>
> I have to transfer about 50 3//4 inch tapes which will end up on DVD, we are
> planning on donating the tapes to a university or museum after we archive
> (they are the raw interview footage of hiroshima survivors from the 1980's).
>
> For our own archives we are planning on dumping to dvd and collectively know
> very little about digital archiving. If any one has any suggestions about
> file formats, brands of archival media etc.we would gretaly appreciate your
> advice.
>
> thanks
> Matt
>
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