archiving hd to dvd?

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brianluce

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how can hvx200 footage be archived to dvd? (as has been suggested here?) it won't be hd will it? dvd is not a hd format. can someone explain?
 
ChuckS said:
You can copy HD "Data" files to a DVD for archiving. It is not "HD" just HD files.
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Just to clarify for the original poster, it is still HD on the disc - the quality isn't degraded. You just won't be able to put it in any home video player and view the files on a TV. You'd be using the burnable DVD simply as a storage medium for the data, which you could then bring back into your computer in the future for editing purposes, etc.
 
luke43 said:
or to blu ray disk. It should be available by the time hvx200 comes out
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I don't think it's going to be that accessible by December, but it's certainly coming. I think that's the best choice for archival the HVX has; I hope that it gets here sooner than later too!
 
Haakon said:
Just to clarify for the original poster, it is still HD on the disc - the quality isn't degraded. You just won't be able to put it in any home video player and view the files on a TV. You'd be using the burnable DVD simply as a storage medium for the data, which you could then bring back into your computer in the future for editing purposes, etc.
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Correct - these are files that represent the HD content stored on a DVD the same way that you store files on a CD. In order to view them you would have to use a program that could stream the files contiguously to a monitor. {like the NLE that created them for example]

Regarding Blu ray, I saw one working on Friday and the manufacturer that demo'd it to us said that they plan to be shipping by Christmas. I have no way of knowing if that is true but I can tell you that the picture looked as though it was coming directly from a D5. It looked increadible and I hope they make their scheduled delivery.
 
Isn't that very labor intensive to burn all those dvd's rather than just copying to a hard drive? I know there not MPEG and need encoding, and just the raw files but it seems like a lot of time, and time is $$$.
 
That depends on what back up strategy (if any) you have. Sure its a lot easier to back up to hard drives, but as the cost of drives keeps falling there is a tendency to back up to larger drives, when you accidentally scramble the drive or there's a hardware failure you can loose it all.

For things that require a lot of human intervention, a lot of work to create, making an offline protection copy is a good idea and DVD's can provide a fairly easy and cost effective way to back something up.

A freinds 250GB system disk on her G5 just failed and she lost months/years worth of illistrator and photoshop work. It sure seems like it would have been a lot cheaper if she would have backed up her projects as she was done with them. Now if she needs any part of any project she has to do it over. I chose not to tell her that it was a bad idea to have such a large system disk and to store mission critical data on a system disk. I'll buy here an external drive for her birthday and hopefully she will use it...
 
Any ideas what Blue Ray media will be sold for, and will the burner just slide into my computer or will it be only stand alone in the begining?

Cheers,
Chris
 
Geno said:
Isn't that very labor intensive to burn all those dvd's rather than just copying to a hard drive? I know there not MPEG and need encoding, and just the raw files but it seems like a lot of time, and time is $$$.
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Well the tradeoff with P2 is that the time is spent archiving instead of capturing. There's a big difference though, because that time is then moved to the back of your project instead of the front. You can get working on your footage right away, saving you delivery hours - and as you pointed out, time is money.

For me, I'd rather drag one folder of P2 contents into Nero and click "burn" than have to hook up a camera, open my NLE, and tie up my whole system in realtime to avoid dropped frames and the like. With 16x DVD-Rs now prevalent and media prices so cheap, it's a faster and more inexpensive alternative to capturing footage as well.
 
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