Mathew Knight
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I am looking at archiving HVX DVCPRO50 footage, and HD 720 footage onto DVD. Only as original data (mxf card files). Sometimes these will be 8GB folders (from 8GB cards) and sometimes footage from firestore (80GB's, 100GB's).
Someone told me that dual layer DVD's are not very reliable in that they may not be accessible when you put them in different computers to the one that burned them. This sounds a little bogus but has any one experienced this ?
And just to reiterate I am talking data only here.
Now dual layer DVD seems good for 8Gb cards but I foresee a problem with the firestore. How do I split up the data on a firestore into 8GB chunks for a dual layer DVD (and still be able to retreive it all later as one disk, because final cut see's the firestore as one P2 card)
now blue Ray sounds much more attractive but I don't know much about it. Do Blue Ray DVD players / burners on a laptop also play regular DVD's & CD ROMS ?
And like wise how do I break up 100GB's of firestore onto 3 Blue Ray DVD's ? (At the moment I can only think of importing it all to final cut then dumping the capture scratch .mov files onto a disk. But ideally this archicing would happen quite soon after stuff goes to the portable drive and before editing has begun. And really you want the MXF files. Unless of course you use the firestore recording quicktimes I guess)
I am still using portable hardrives as the primary storage device, and will use this stuff for editing, but long term I want something I can dump it on (like a tape or disk) that can be dumped on a shelf and when everythings goes up in smoke I can retrieve the original files and get anything back (Using timecode to match up footage)
I know this is the age old P2 headache but ultimately I 'feel' like I need more than a stack of portable hard drives gathering dusk to sleep soundly at night. And I don't want to spend hours and hours burning footage to disk).
And I am looking thinking about this in relation to a documentary with something like 40 hrs of DVCPRO-50 material to deal with. (using a laptop to transfer firestore footage to 3 x 500GB portable hard drives)
Someone told me that dual layer DVD's are not very reliable in that they may not be accessible when you put them in different computers to the one that burned them. This sounds a little bogus but has any one experienced this ?
And just to reiterate I am talking data only here.
Now dual layer DVD seems good for 8Gb cards but I foresee a problem with the firestore. How do I split up the data on a firestore into 8GB chunks for a dual layer DVD (and still be able to retreive it all later as one disk, because final cut see's the firestore as one P2 card)
now blue Ray sounds much more attractive but I don't know much about it. Do Blue Ray DVD players / burners on a laptop also play regular DVD's & CD ROMS ?
And like wise how do I break up 100GB's of firestore onto 3 Blue Ray DVD's ? (At the moment I can only think of importing it all to final cut then dumping the capture scratch .mov files onto a disk. But ideally this archicing would happen quite soon after stuff goes to the portable drive and before editing has begun. And really you want the MXF files. Unless of course you use the firestore recording quicktimes I guess)
I am still using portable hardrives as the primary storage device, and will use this stuff for editing, but long term I want something I can dump it on (like a tape or disk) that can be dumped on a shelf and when everythings goes up in smoke I can retrieve the original files and get anything back (Using timecode to match up footage)
I know this is the age old P2 headache but ultimately I 'feel' like I need more than a stack of portable hard drives gathering dusk to sleep soundly at night. And I don't want to spend hours and hours burning footage to disk).
And I am looking thinking about this in relation to a documentary with something like 40 hrs of DVCPRO-50 material to deal with. (using a laptop to transfer firestore footage to 3 x 500GB portable hard drives)
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