On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:43:01 -0500, "Mark Weaver" <weaver@nospam-corvusdev.com> wrote:

>Am just getting started with digital video and am thinking about how I'm

>going to manage the work-flow. One thing that occurred to me is that I

>think I'd be better off streaming the contents of a tape onto the hard disk

>and then onto a DVDR disc and then re-using the tape rather than preserving

>all the original tapes. A DVDR blank is much cheaper than a DV tape and, I

>assume, should be a much more stable storage medium (and can be duped easily

>and cheaply if needed). Is there a good reason not to go this route?

This is one of those "about every twenty minutes"

questions...;-) Google searches can do wonders with

these...;-) But: DVD is MPEG2 and further-compressed

than DV and harder to edit; if you just transfer DV data,

it still takes the time (and about 3 disks) to save the

data; DV tape is small, secure if stored correctly, and

it is cheap at around $5 per hour of good tape from

online discounters - so, why bother doing this?