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This question is to share my experience as well as ask for suggestions for better methods.
Along with 2 friends, I completed the making of a short documentary film in 2006. Clip is at: http://www.youtube.com/mediamotioninvision
The film was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 on Windows XP. Here's a screenshot:
Note this is not intended to be a plug, we've moved on from this initial learning curve project!
The film is in 4:3 standard definition 720x576 PAL format.
As well as retaining the final 30minute film, I wanted to keep all original files that assembled together to make the film.
The footage was 83.5Gb
So I archived them to over 20 4.7Gb DVD recordables in the original .avi format (i.e. data DVD-ROM format, NOT DVD-Video Mpeg2)
Some .avi DV video files were larger than 4.7Gb so I used 7-zip to split them ( here is a guide as to how to do that: http://www.linglom.com/2008/10/12/how-to-split-a-large-file-using-7-zip/ )
To recombine them, a dos shell command like this would do that: copy /b file.avi.* file.avi would do the job, where .* is a wild card to include all the split parts e.g. 001, 002...00n assuming they are all in the same directory path folder. file.avi is the recombined file identical to the original.
Later on, I bought a LG BE06 LU10 USB 2.0 Super-multi Blu-ray burner and archived the footage to 2 (two) x 50Gb BD-R DL discs. Again in the original format, written as files to a BD-R in the BD-R BD-ROM UDF format readable by PC/Mac etc, NOT Blu-ray video/film format.
This seems to be a good solution for me, because:
the archive is in a robust, reasonably permanent, non-volatile medium, i.e. DVD recordable / Blu-ray (debates about stability of optical media organic chemical dye compounds/substrates aside)
the format of the archive is accessible by open source tools or just plain Windows Explorer and it's not in a proprietary format
I just thought I'd ask folks for their experience on better methods, if such exist.
(part1 of 3) +1 for your input, magnastor does look like a viable option, particularly for corporates' mission critical data. But there are concerns about being "locked-in" to a platform or reliant on scarce expertise might not suit smaller projects or the consumer. If you have intellectual property then this could help protect your position in the marketplace but that may also mean a proprietary element to the solution. There may also be similar concerns with this solution as so-called cloud solutions: if the provider's situation changes then this may impact the user. – therobyouknow – 2012-10-03T14:21:54.717
(part 2 of 3) those concerns aside, I like it that the payment for space is one-off and not ongoing: that is very appealing. I also like it that you use Amazon S3, having that brand backing is very reassuring, given that Amazon have been around for over a decade and their reputation in many areas, their future is about as certain as it can be. – therobyouknow – 2012-10-03T14:24:24.947
(part 3 of 3)I guess your threat might be a free open source alternative bolt-on to a distributed social network whereby friends co-operate in a syndicate to share resources e.g. each user's local hard drive space as a kind of permanent private torrent/peer-to-peer network, on the top of say the Diaspora distributed social network (or indeed any centralised social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ could be the gateway to such a network among friends). – therobyouknow – 2012-10-03T14:28:07.693
Additional words from me: I guess my primary concern is of your longevity as a company, some more big projects/clients would help build reputation, or if you partnered with a bank or telco for example as an add-on value-add service, and if you were able to connect to not only local drives but also other cloud services such as Flickr, Facebook, Picasa. I will certainly consider you at some point in the future. – therobyouknow – 2012-10-03T14:31:18.723