Storing your masters

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:31 pm

I back up my huffy and mpeg2 files to dvd.

Unlike most people, I take care of my stuff.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:37 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:DVD back-ups and lagarith files

Same here! ^.^

I need to back things up on a external hard drive I don't touch, that is the best way to back up IMO. I use all my external hard drives though, I think I have 1 or two somewhere, but they are full of things I don't want to go through. Maybe sometime later I could get a new one and then store the videos on that. Right now most of my videos are on one of my internal hard drives. They are also backed up to an external hard drive that is always being used on my computer I think.

Did I need to explain all of this? No so why did I? I don't know?

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:54 pm

I back up my huffy and lag files to my external HDs, along with burning them to DVDs. Just in case I ever have the urge to remaster a video, I'd like to have a lossless copy available. Plus, since I'm trying to author some DVDs for convention distribution, it's nice to have the highest-quality video files for conversion to MPEG-2.

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:17 pm

I don't. Everything related to the video on my HD gets deleted. If I ever want to see the damned thing again I can always download it from the org. As an added bonus, this pushes my hits and # of downloads slightly higher (ok, by 1, but still) thus giving me a bigger e-penis.

Kusoyaro · Post by **Kusoyaro** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:44 pm

Actually, all my MPEG2s are "backed up" on the AWA VAT server, so I'm all good

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:48 pm

I back up the source files in a zip archive (after converting said source files to Lagarith, and maybe PNG and FLAC), and have a Lagarith-FLAC MKV that I use as a lossless master copy - it gets stored with the rest of the general encodes I make of the video (as it stands now, that would be VCD, SVCD, DVD, Low-res DVD, XviD, H.264 distro, and H.264 ultra-HQ), and those are zipped up and put on DVD-R with the source files, usually.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:31 pm

Zarxrax wrote:I just keep high quality xvids with uncompressed audio. Are you really ever going to need your masters again? I just figure whats done is done...

Well, personally, I'd still like to make an AS compilation DVD once Cyanna and I have enough videos to fill one.

Problem is that I no longer have even so much as an MPEG-2 of "Haruko the Superfreak"... I'll have to bug Ashyukun to send me his copy.

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:37 pm

i store mine on Beta SP *wipes shoulder off*

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:38 pm

or was that brush? guess im not down with the vernacular these days.

2c: DVDs are the way to go. 4gigs is more than enough space to store crap.

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:12 am

Kusoyaro wrote:If you don't like DVD or spare HD options, I'm not sure what else there is you can do :/ Um...tape drive?

I considered flash drives. . . then I realized I don't have the cash for that many flash drives.

I guess DVD is the best option for me, I just have to stop stepping on my DVDs. . . .I typically don't back up the source footage since each video features over 20 gigs worth.

Yes, I'm pretty bad about cleaning up my comptuer equipment. There's about twenty cables coming out of my computer at any given time.