Archive
by Doug Lewis
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May 19, 2008 at 9:49:04 pm
How do all of you archive your projects? Here is my method. Burn an extra DVD (at 2X) and send final project out to mini DV tape. Label both and store away. Any better ideas? What about DVDA Prepare files and folders to an external hard drive? Render to a DV avi file and store on external hard drive? What about archive DVD-Rs? My supplier has available the following "archive" DVDs: Verbatim Ultralife Gold at $1.51 each, Kodak Gold Preservation at $1.86 each, and MAM-A Gold Archive 74 min with jewel case at $1.51 each. Anybody used any of these disks? Are they worth the extra few cents? Share your thoughts. Thanks.
Re: Archive by Jeremy Rasnic on May 19, 2008 at 10:39:27 pm
With the cost of hard drives being about 17 cents per gig at 640 gigs, I have been archiving to HDD. What I do is put a drive in an enclosure and copy the entire project, captured files, pictures, veg files, dvda files, and encodes to the hard drive. I then label it and store it until my next project. I then repeat until that drive is full. Then I start a new drive.
In addition, whenever I deliver DVD or BluRay, I always burn an extra copy for myself so that way if the hard drive decides it doesn't want to cooperate 5 years down the road, I still have an alternate on DVD or BluRay, but I would no longer have the source files.
That is how I do it.
Note though, I do all my edits and work on internal drives and at the end copy it all over to the drive in the external enclosure.
Re: Archive by Gary Brown on Jun 13, 2008 at 4:34:36 pm
I follow a similar process. Once finished (or while waiting for the 'approval') I use the 'save as' menu and select 'copy project media' to an external drive. I make subfolders for project specific files that may not be included in the previous process. I even save backups of my contracts, email correspondence, disk ISO, whatever, drives are cheap. When the drive is full, I start another. I also burn two copies of the disk and put them in a file folder in the file cabinetwith hard copies of the paperwork.
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Portsmouth Public Schools
Portsmouth, Virginia
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