On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:13:27 GMT, "Marc Koenig, Sr." <mkoenig@neb.rr.com> wrote:

>I have only recently started doing video editing, using Premiere 6.0 (soon

>upgrading to 6.5). I have a question about archiving home video to DVD. I

>have already transferred all my prior videos (VHS and Hi8) to DV tape. I

>would like to go ahead and do bulk transfer of the tapes to DVD for easier

>access and viewing and also to have it on a more enduring media than tape. I

>initially will do this with only limited editing, because if I wait until

>have have time to do extensive editing of all of it, it will never get done.

[......]

Carefully-stored (upright, rewound, in dry, cool,

even conditions, with a wind/rewind cycle maybe

every year or two) Mini-DV tapes of good quality

may outlast writable DVDs (or at least get you to

the time of another, better medium) - and unless

you copy data files, the MPEG2 DVD "movie" files

are more compressed than the original, with lower

quality - and they are currently harder to edit.

Stay with tape for archiving, duplicating with

FireWire connection those tapes of greatest

interest...