From: Steven Ball (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 13:25:02 PDT
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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