Video Media Archiving

The future of video will have most of your work stored on bits of ones and zeros. What you do with that bittage when you store it determines how you'll find it later.

It is winter, a time to reflect and get organized. That box of tapes sitting in your basement has been waiting for this cold blustery day, waiting for you to blow off the dust and save the memories and images filling thousands of feet of shiny black tape. OK, you say, let's go buy a stack of DVDs or perhaps that new terabyte hard drive and begin the archiving process! Whoa! Not so fast. Before you do permanent damage to your life's work, let's take a hard look at archiving. In this article, we will examine the options you have available for archiving your footage and hopefully dispel any misconceptions you may have about this all-important topic. We will take a look at viable options and steps that will help you maintain your video library for years to c…

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