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Re: Storage and Archiving
by Cale Mooth on Mar 10, 2008 at 6:58:20 pm

It's going to come down to how you input your source video. For example, if you're going SDI out of the camera straight into the computer, then 10-bit uncompressed is the way to go with archiving. If you're shooting on say HDV or DVCPRO tape and then import that into the computer, I would question whether a 10-bit uncompressed archive is necessary. With the digital formats(DV, HDV, XDCAM, etc.) you can go from camera to tape to computer, edit, then go back to tape and not lose any image quality since all you're doing at that point is moving data around. You're not recompressing.

Long-term harddrive based storage just feels too risky at the moment. I have drives that are 10 years old and younger that have broken down mechanically just from sitting on the shelf. I have tape that is over 20 years old that is still holding its information.

If you're capturing uncompressed footage maybe consider a DLT based archive solution? But if you're shooting in a particular digital format, I would archive to that same format using tape simply for the reliability and the lower cost.





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