Hello All! Original Poster Here. Looks like I've kicked up a diverse conversation here. I think I've gleaned a great deal of thoughts from what's been discussed and I'll check on the NIST info soon. I want to comment on the RAW image file discussions. It occurs to me that the proper way to think of a camera's RAW file is to consider it a 'piece of undeveloped film'. The conversion and manipulation of a RAW file into a TIFF or JPEG is incredibly analagous to the astonishing ways Film can be manipulated to change the outcome of it's development into a finished Slide or Negative. Let along the changes one can introduce when taking that slide or negative to the print stage. I personally would NEVER consider an Undeveloped Piece Of Film to be ARCHIVAL. Currently, I don't see how RAW in it's current technological status can be considered ARCHIVAL. There is to much proprietary, licensed, and secret(?) tied up in how Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad, etc have things structured. Maybe ADOBE can give DNG to the Library Of Congress as a repository of profiles and processes and such. How are all these zillions of important images be stored for posterity let alone people's family snapshots and memories???
Richard On Jan 6, 2:22 pm, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
