i've been wrestling with the same problem. but right here beside me are a stack of 16mm reels, a shelf of DV tapes and a big box of family super 8 films that have survived my intercontinental shenanigans. don't ditch them. you may think you have uploaded all the best parts, but in 100 years there'll be someone who wants to watch all the bits in between. maybe your great grandchildren. maybe you. as Julian said, DV tapes are small in the scheme of things. get a small box. instead ditch other things made by other people that you could buy again if you really wanted to, like books you're never going to read again.
On 27-Sep-09, at 4:46 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: > I'm in the middle of a move, and came across the box of mini-DV > tapes I've > accumulated over the years. I'm seriously considering chucking it all. > Will I, or anyone, really ever want to watch two-hundred hours of > random > clips from my life and work? > > There's a part of me that wants to keep everything, every second > that I > shot. But there's another part of me that knows I already cut and > uploaded > and shared the best parts of these tapes. > > I'm not really sure what I'm asking here, but you guys would > probably have > the best insight into this sort of thing. > > AQ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
