Backing Up: Best Practices
Your project's done. How do you archive it? Helpful notes for someone who has to open the project after you're gone.
Archiving media and other assets has always been an important issue. But, as video moves away from magnetic tape (e.g., Mini DV tapes) toward solid-state Flash memory (e.g., Panasonic's P2), optical storage (e.g., Sony's PD), hard-drive storage and other media (can we even call it video anymore, now that it is no longer tape-based?), the need to archive has become not only more important but, in many ways, more difficult.
There is little doubt, at least outside the walls of videotape manufacturing companies, that videotape is going the way of floppy disks. I'm pretty sure the generation being born today will someday ask their parents, "What is that stuff they call videotape in those old 2000 movies?" Flash memory, optical storage and hard-drive storage are quickly replacing the linear acquisition format we have been using for the last 58 yea…
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