Archiving Video

lazrkermy wrote on 11/21/2003, 2:39 PM

I have .avi (unedited) files from video capture and I want to archive them for future editing purposes. What is the best format besides avi?

Also what is the best format to render .avi into to prepare it for DvdA?

Comments

Jsnkc wrote on 11/21/2003, 2:44 PM

The best way would be to just transfer them to external hard drives and leave them in the AVI format.

randy-stewart wrote on 11/21/2003, 3:12 PM

A couple of other options...store back to digital tape or burn to DVD as data files. I agree, storing to hard drive is probably the most convenient and, per gigabyte, less costly.

As for rendering for burning to DVD, recomend you use the MPEG-2 DVD template in Vegas 4 but go in and change the quality setting under the video tab to best (click custom button on template).

Hope this helps.

Randy

1charmedlife wrote on 11/21/2003, 3:12 PM

Yup - just dump the avi's to an optical disc (DVD) as DATA if you want them off your system. Then you don't have any additional compression on them:)

donp wrote on 11/21/2003, 8:33 PM

If you do a search on archiving you will find a thread that Spot had commented on. Basically the most ecnomical method is to archive to an externall drive, tape is more expensive.