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How to store video files

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I finally sat down last weekend and started digitizing all of our old home movies that we had on VHS. I am using a Canopus ADVC110 to convert the signal and am using Vidi to save the file as a .dv

The question is, what is the best way to save the edited files. I want to be able to put these videos on DVD and on the AppleTV, but I also want to have an archive of the original file, just in case. What is the best format in which to save this archive file. I know that I want it to be a lossless compression format, or an uncompressed format.

Any suggestions?
 
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Storing video requires a great deal of space. An hour of DV will take about 3 single layer DVDs. You might want to buy into Blue-Ray and Toast for backing up. Or buy a couple of 1GB external drives and story a copy off site. Uncompressed video is humongous.

I haven't given this much concern yet, as I have my original source tapes and a version on the drive and the finished result on DVD, but here is a thought. You are editing a DV file, cutting some garbage you probably don't want to keep also. Why not cut that garbage out, empty your editor trash, and save the project file as is. That way any future conversion will work with the closest original source you have.

What you will archive will depend on which editor you are using.
 

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