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Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: jwhee0615 on January 02, 2008, 01:32:19 pm
Wondering what the thoughts are for archiving digital tapes as well as older analog tapes. I have alot of digital 8mm and hi8 tapes that I would like to archive. My initial thought is to pull the vid off of my taped through my digital 8 camcorder via fire wire into my computer and archive to an external hard drive. Just wondering about prefered compression type or file type to save as. Thanks for any info.
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: citizenjoe on January 02, 2008, 11:45:40 pm
I don't know what the Pro's do, but I've been backing up to Hard Disk.  I can't imagine a news room doing this, though!  

Cheers,
Hugh
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: willow on January 07, 2008, 12:36:00 am
I save as AVI files. 13gb for a hour of DV.

Usually there are two ways to save;
1hr Complete (or Recorded Duration)
Where each Video clip/scene started – which helps when editing.
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: jwhee0615 on May 28, 2008, 08:08:35 pm
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I save as AVI files. 13gb for a hour of DV.

Usually there are two ways to save;
1hr Complete (or Recorded Duration)
Where each Video clip/scene started – which helps when editing.
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Im going to bump this back up to the top just in case there is any additional info from anyone. Is AVI uncompressed or the least compressed format?
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: Chris_Brown on May 28, 2008, 09:50:16 pm
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Im going to bump this back up to the top just in case there is any additional info from anyone. Is AVI uncompressed or the least compressed format?
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You might find valuable information on archiving footage [a href=\"http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=119709&highlight=archive]here,[/url] and you may have already read it, but this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI) has detailed info on the AVI format.
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: wolfnowl on May 29, 2008, 01:05:02 am
My son works as a photographer and a gaffer in the movie industry.  I'll ask him for you, but he's moving this weekend so it might be a couple of days before I get a reply.

Mike.
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: jwhee0615 on May 29, 2008, 08:17:54 pm
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You might find valuable information on archiving footage here, (http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=119709&highlight=archive) and you may have already read it, but this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVI) has detailed info on the AVI format.
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Thank you very much for the links. I will check em out.
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: jwhee0615 on May 29, 2008, 08:18:37 pm
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My son works as a photographer and a gaffer in the movie industry.  I'll ask him for you, but he's moving this weekend so it might be a couple of days before I get a reply.

Mike.
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Thank you Mike. I appreciate it.

Jeff
Title: Archiving from Digital Tape
Post by: jwhee0615 on May 31, 2008, 07:38:05 pm
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Thank you Mike. I appreciate it.

Jeff
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Well this subject might need a bit of adjustment now that the Firewire port on my vid cam stopped working. It's a Sony TRV120 Digital 8 and I believe I bought it back in 2000. Sony wants a flat rate or $200.00 to service it but im not sure its worth bothering. The only problem is that I need to be able to play back the digital 8 tapes. Is there a dedicated digital 8 tape player out there?