[MacDV] An Interesting Point. What To Do About Archives

[Roger Harris]

William, I handle files a bit like Shirley. I have a B&W G3 that is now 
a G4 with three 80 gig drives. It is networked to my MDD G4 that has 2 
80 gig and one 120gig drive and a beige G3 450  with a 60 and 30gig. The 
beige is holding a lot of music and is a print server for a large format 
Epson 3000 printer; It is also connected to a stereo for the music. 
Files I am working on and those in limbo are on the MDD and B&W. I put 
video to CD/DVD disk and back to tape when I am done with edits. I have 
older relatives that put the digital tape in the camera and run it on 
the TV. I am very new to video and nothing is professional.

My photo and graphics work is professional and I don't handle the files 
much differently. But my professional work when burned to CD is kept 
viable buy using DiskTracker and QPict. These are both database type 
applications that allow me to keep track of files no matter were or how 
they are stored. These applications are about $35 each. I was using 
iView Media Pro; It is used buy lots of professionals for video, photo 
and other images files. I don't like iView Media Pro at all. The data is 
kept in a proprietary data structure and I find the notation and 
cataloging very clumsy If you have a lot of things store to CDs and DVDs 
DiskTracker is a must. It is also simple if you want simple and advanced 
if you need. My jury is still out on QPict; But it is much better and 
cheaper than iView Media Pro. iView Media Pro is $200 and not much fun; 
I cannot figure why it is so popular.

Now you know more than you wanted to.

Roger


William Hofius wrote:

>
> Enough blathering and down to the point. How do you fine folks archive 
> your digital media and your digital media projects? Do you keep 
> projects on hard drives forever? Burn projects as data to DVDs? Keep 
> the original tapes around? just don't worry about it?
>
> TIA
>
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