How Do You Archive P2
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TomW.
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October 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM #43835
TomW
ParticipantI am purchasing my first prosumer camera. I’m looking at the AG-HPX170 and HVX-200. Here is the question: How does one archive video shot with P2 only? With a Mini-DV tape, I understand I can simply store the tape on the shelf – waa-laa, instant archive. But with the P2 “style” – how in the world do I archive??
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October 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM #183714
Rob
ParticipantYou can burn all your video files onto a disk. It may take a lot of disk right now though since a DVD only holds 4.7GB. Actually, I think they have duel layer DVDs too.
Maybe you could buy an external hard drive, like a 100GB drive, and load all your footage on that and keep it in a safe place.
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October 13, 2008 at 7:12 PM #183715
Rob
ParticipantThis is what a quick google search got me:
A Dual-Layer DVD differs from a standard DVD by employing a second physical layer within the disc itself. A drive with dual layer capability accesses the second layer by shining the laser through the first semi-transparent layer.
Dual layer recording is available on DVD-R and DVD+R discs for storing significantly more data, up to 8.5 GB per disc, compared with 4.7 GB for single-layer discs.I would probably go with dual layer disks depending on how large the project is and how many files need to be backed up. Disks last a long time if you keep them out of the sun and in some sort of container, although, I guess you could say the same about an external hard drive as well.
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November 30, 2008 at 11:38 PM #183716
aburke3
Participantrobgrauert,
Go with DVD media if your video project is too rigorous for a hard drive. Ie: DVD media is still more resiliant than a spinning hard drive in my opinion.
For most , though, archiving P2 media to a hard drive has been the answer.I use a new App called “ShotPut P2” from Imagine Products to send my video from a P2 volume to several hard drives at once. It never hurts to have your gold in several places 🙂
http://www.imagineproducts.com/ShotPut_P2_Edition.html
Luck,
Andrew
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December 1, 2008 at 12:52 AM #183717
Rob
ParticipantYea, I know people archive with hard drives too. I’d probably do it too, but i feel like disks may be more cost effective depending on how much media needs to be stored, although hard drives are pretty cheap these days. Whatever works is cool…
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December 1, 2008 at 2:35 PM #183718
birdcat
ParticipantJust be careful about archiving to HD – Ihad a 500GB one go south on me a couple of months ago and lost a lot of stuff that I will be paying a lot of money to recover.
I would go with a BluRay burner for larger files now (25GB and 50GB). It may be pricey but BD blanks are way cheaper than P2 cards!
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