An Interesting Point. What To Do About Archives

[sb]

For iMovie projects, the safest method is to buy a honkin big hard drive and
then copy over all your completed projects, as you have been doing. Just get
more or bigger hd's and keep everything.

For projects done in FCExpress, you can just back up the actual project, not
the media. You can probably fit it onto CD.
If you have correctly labled your reel numbers when first capturing, FCE can
re-capture via timecode.

 regards,
 sb

 On 6/6/2004 6:13 AM, "William Hofius" <wjh at mac.com> wrote:

> The recent conversation about trying to re-import material from a DVD
> raises an interesting question (for me at least)­How should one archive
> their digital video projects?
> 
> I am a pack-rat in just about every aspect of my life and have found
> the same to be true of my digital lifestyle. I have only made a dozen
> or so small iMovie projects, so I have kept all of the original iMovie
> projects intact on my hard drive. I made a folder called "Finished
> iMovie Projects" and once I have exported the iMovie to its final
> format I place the iMovie project in this folder... just in case. Just
> in case I need to re-export it, just in case I want to tweak it at a
> later date, just in case.
> 
> The problem is this consumes a lot of space. As my iMovie projects have
> gotten longer, the iMovie projects have gotten bigger. I have gone from
> a 20 GB Digital Video partition to an 80 GB partition and now that is
> almost full.
> 
> Making the space problem worse is the fact that my last few projects
> have been done in Final Cut Express. These projects required that I
> import several hours of digital video. Between the capture video,
> render files, etc., these three projects consume nearly 80 GB in and of
> themselves.
> 
> I have been tempted to trash all of my finished projects, but was
> recently reminded why I keep them in the first place. My in-laws asked
> me for a VHS copy of all of my work so they could watch it in Japan.
> (They are older Japanese and not very computer savvy.)
> 
> OH, and just in case anything goes wrong, I keep all of my old tapes
> around. After learning a hard lesson (forgot to import some footage
> before I re-recorded over it), I buy new DV tapes for each and every
> project.
> 
> 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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