Archiving Digital Footage
Penguin December 27th, 2007
It’s good to know that I’m not the only one that is having issues with archiving digital footage.
From the NYT:
To store a digital master record of a movie costs about $12,514 a year, versus the $1,059 it costs to keep a conventional film master.
to keep the enormous swarm of data produced when a picture is “born digital” — that is, produced using all-electronic processes, rather than relying wholly or partially on film — pushes the cost of preservation to $208,569 a year, vastly higher than the $486 it costs to toss the equivalent camera negatives, audio recordings, on-set photographs and annotated scripts of an all-film production into the cold-storage vault.
I spent most of Monday burning all the footage from Love Angle onto DVD. I have a relatively old burner, so it took about 5 hours to burn 20 DVDs.
The main reason why I chose to burn DVDs is the fact that magnetic storage fades over time. Especially with data on tapes. Have you ever tried watching an old VHS tape? This is not to say that DVDs are going to last forever. Most digital media lasts for about 5-8 years. Beyond that, there isn’t much guarantee of data integrity. I didn’t have much of a choice because I had reused DV tapes during the shoot. Still, it’s better to have it backed up in case my hard drive crashes.
In the future, I plan to keep all my DV tapes in addition to the DVD backups.
- Penguin
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