From: Steven Ball (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 14:35:36 PDT
Erm, sorry this is not great advice, H.264 is fine for streaming
video, as that Wikipedia entry says "It is employed widely in
applications ranging from television broadcast to video for mobile
devices", very effective for this and HD and in these applications,
yes better than MPEG-2, but is still lossy, likely to be superceded
and not recommended for archival purposes. Best of course would be
uncompressed DV but this will result in huge files...
Steven
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On 24 Sep 2008, at 21:59, Jorge Amaro wrote:
> 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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