This is thrown out there for anyone who may be wondering about the best method of preserving your precious videos. I hope it gets you out of the struggle I've been in for a long time. I'm loving PMB ver 4.2.10.15030 as it I'm the original discoverer. It comes with Sony SR11 and other Sony Camcorders.
You go Tools > Analyze All Content, then go to bed. You arise to discover that all of those clips which were simply 1 thumbnail last night have been expanded so as to display numerous images within your clips enabling you to see what the heck is on those babies so you can click right to that special scene that you might even have forgotten, since it was 3 yrs ago! You can select clips and rt mouse > Analyze Media Files to do the analysis on individual clips rather than Analyze All Content fromthe Tools menu.
If you keep your videos on hard drives as well as discs, PMB will be your dearest friend for all the years to come, ready to expand clips and set forth your entire videoing life. You sit at the computer with the ability to call up all of your recordings over the years without having to dig out a disc, put it in the player, spin up, search foward and back and sideways for whatever; "no, that's not it", dig out another disc .... and so forth and so on. My video recordings started in 2002. Keeping it all on hard drives lets me sit here in one cozy place and with PMB Analyze Content I can see it all (be sure to click the Expand Videos button at the top) and even click right to a specific spot on the clip because you can see the images at that point on the clip. Try that on your AVCHD DVD or on your DVD unless that spot happens to be a chapter button. Your're not sure what's in between the chapter buttons, are you.
Costly to keep on hard drives? Just got a 1 terabyte drive for $95 which will hold my videos for the next few years, then get another one. Drive failure? My backups are on AVCHD DVDs, plus my experience of 10 years has only seen 1 hdrive failure and that was before the newer superior drives.
What do ya think?
For what it's worth,
tidum
You go Tools > Analyze All Content, then go to bed. You arise to discover that all of those clips which were simply 1 thumbnail last night have been expanded so as to display numerous images within your clips enabling you to see what the heck is on those babies so you can click right to that special scene that you might even have forgotten, since it was 3 yrs ago! You can select clips and rt mouse > Analyze Media Files to do the analysis on individual clips rather than Analyze All Content fromthe Tools menu.
If you keep your videos on hard drives as well as discs, PMB will be your dearest friend for all the years to come, ready to expand clips and set forth your entire videoing life. You sit at the computer with the ability to call up all of your recordings over the years without having to dig out a disc, put it in the player, spin up, search foward and back and sideways for whatever; "no, that's not it", dig out another disc .... and so forth and so on. My video recordings started in 2002. Keeping it all on hard drives lets me sit here in one cozy place and with PMB Analyze Content I can see it all (be sure to click the Expand Videos button at the top) and even click right to a specific spot on the clip because you can see the images at that point on the clip. Try that on your AVCHD DVD or on your DVD unless that spot happens to be a chapter button. Your're not sure what's in between the chapter buttons, are you.
Costly to keep on hard drives? Just got a 1 terabyte drive for $95 which will hold my videos for the next few years, then get another one. Drive failure? My backups are on AVCHD DVDs, plus my experience of 10 years has only seen 1 hdrive failure and that was before the newer superior drives.
What do ya think?
For what it's worth,
tidum