Anybody burning to media anymore?

Streamworks Audio wrote on 11/30/2015, 4:43 PM

I just edited a small clip for a friend and when I checked to see how they wanted the video deleivered they asked for a DVD. So while I was burning the edit from the timeline I got to thinking....

Is anybody burning to media anymore?

My business sells videos from our site, and we used to have DVD and Streaming, we moved on to Blu Ray and downloads, now it is just downloads.

For my home movies I used to burn them to AVCHD or Blu Ray, but now I often just render out a version to throw into iTunes and watch on the Apple TV. Sometimes I think it would be better to go back to the physical copy mentality and burn home movies to disc.

I read the most of the sales for Adele's new album were on CD (personally I buy the CD if I can and rip to Apple Lossless). Perhaps physical media is not 100% dead yet.

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Streamworks Audio wrote on 12/10/2015, 7:27 PM

I was looking at some USB 3 2TB hard drives here (Vancouver) and they are roughly $.06 a GB, while BD-R discs are about $.04 per GB.

I agree that the speed of an external hard drive is a plus, but something about the idea of a disc that can be labelled/cataloged and placed in a shelf is appealing.

Right now I have 3 projects that need to be backed up. 88GB worth.

john_dennis wrote on 12/10/2015, 7:57 PM

Do it. Make two copies.

winrockpost wrote on 12/10/2015, 8:59 PM

Have not made a DVD in a couple of years, all deliveries have been mp4 on thumb drives, portable drives, or straight to clients youtube or server, bought a Blu-ray drive several years ago anticipating the great demand, and have never even used it....still have the shiny disc thing that came with it...but that's just my clients in my market, I am not saying there is not a place for them.

ushere wrote on 12/10/2015, 10:12 PM

+1 risce1

i occasionally get the odd request for a dvd, but it really is a rarity nowadays - usually from local country folk with cr*p internet (they don't even bother upgrading their xp pc's either).

Streamworks Audio wrote on 12/10/2015, 11:07 PM

@risce1

Yeah I do not deliver the final product to my clients on physical media. I too just upload to a cloud point where the files are accessed and downloaded by the client.

What I am talking about for back ups however is the projects themselves. I have had on several occasions where the client would mail months after the project was completed and ask for changes. So I would like to back up the projects here and move them off my active project drive for those 'just in case' moments.

PeterDuke wrote on 12/11/2015, 5:08 PM

Just backup projects as you would any other data. What media do you normally use for backups?

dxdy wrote on 12/11/2015, 8:03 PM

My clients are clearly tech troglodytes, they want DVD and BR

At least now, for a given show, BR is half the total number of disks.

winrockpost wrote on 12/11/2015, 8:38 PM

........What I am talking about for back ups however is the projects themselves

What we do is store all raw media,veg files, AE and and any graphics files all on portable usb drives, label them because we may have numerous on one drive and seal them up and store them.. have bunches and bunches in a top secret super secure location,,lol

set wrote on 12/12/2015, 3:02 AM

Still delivering in DVD as well.

Set