At 11:04 AM -0800 1/6/2009, Tom wrote: >It's not preserving the still images that bothers me so much as the >video---video of our little kids who have grown up or adults who are >no longer with us. I can print out still images and preserve them in >various ways, but there is no printing out video to save it; it's on >disks or tape in order to exist at all. My video is shot on mini-DV, >fed into my Mac through a firewire cable, edited in Final Cut, and >burned to DVD. These edited videos have titles, captions, and brevity >through cuts of unnecessary footage that make it watchable, unlike the >raw tapes.
And in the process of authoring the DVD-Video, they're also highly lossy compressed. >So I just make many copies of my edited videos, burning them slowly >(1X) in case that does it any better, distribute them widely among >relatives, and then plan on continually copying them onto newer media >as time goes by. When I'm gone, I would hope that anyone in the family >who cares about these videos would continue such preservation efforts. Keep also the version *before* that final compression. That way, when future DVD formats come out, eg: Blu-Ray, you can re-author the disc with less or maybe even no compression. Just out of curiosity, how big are those pre-compression files? Are you doing this in 1080 or higher? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
