HDV archive

Yes I've done a search. I know different folk work differently. Just would like some specific workflow practices for comparison.

I capture either apple pro res or native HDV when working with HDV tapes.
I thought by now I would be burning blue ray discs but end users just don't have the players.

I save the original tapes for archival purposes. But it would be nice to have a master copy of the final edit as well, not something further compressed.
I back up final cuts and sometimes capture/render files on hard drives, but they are not really reliable long term. Plus I could be better at making sure I fire them up every so often.

I imagine the future will have some sort of reliable huge capacity storage that will take care of this - flash looks promising. HDV will disappear giving way to a new low-end HD format. But for now, what are folks doing - from capture to distribution to archiving for future projects or reedits or another DVD copy request?

And this question gets doubled if working with capture cards. With tape, if I do loose the hard drives or don’t back up to them at all, I still have the original tapes. Not so with capture cards.



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