Transfer of Footage to HDD- use miniDV tape or DVD as Source
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:10 pm
Hi all
I am going through a VERY CONSUMING process of saving all of home movies accummulated over the years to hard disk. All of this footage has been edited with various Cassie equip over the years. It is all archived currently on DVD and/or Blu Ray AND miniDV tape. My question is this: to archive footage which source should I use: the DVD/Blu Ray discs or the miniDV tape?
The miniDV tape is preferred in terms of lossless quality but it is more time consuming to load and there are occassional drop outs which is annoying. Dvd and/or Blu Ray DVD is easier to load, I have already checked it for quality whenoriginally created over the years so likely no drop outs (unless they degraded but I think thats less likely - hopefully!) BUT is the QUALITY of the footage that much worse? Thats the million dollar question I think.
Thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance!
I am going through a VERY CONSUMING process of saving all of home movies accummulated over the years to hard disk. All of this footage has been edited with various Cassie equip over the years. It is all archived currently on DVD and/or Blu Ray AND miniDV tape. My question is this: to archive footage which source should I use: the DVD/Blu Ray discs or the miniDV tape?
The miniDV tape is preferred in terms of lossless quality but it is more time consuming to load and there are occassional drop outs which is annoying. Dvd and/or Blu Ray DVD is easier to load, I have already checked it for quality whenoriginally created over the years so likely no drop outs (unless they degraded but I think thats less likely - hopefully!) BUT is the QUALITY of the footage that much worse? Thats the million dollar question I think.
Thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance!