akira@_NOSPAM_best.com wrote in message <67in82$a5u$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>...

>I was just thinking about the huge amounts of data generated when editing
>video on a computer, and thinking that perhaps I could save all my project
>files (which would consist of premiere files, qt files, audio files, midi
>files, photoshop files, etc.) off to a dv tape through firewire. I know I
>could record just the video to tape, but ideally I'd like to stick the whole
>lot of it there, in case I want to go back and tweak it or reuse portions.
[...]

If you convert audio, video, and image materials to DV-AVI files (by
placing them on the Premier time-line, and "making a movie" - but
remember the 2-gig [9.5 minute] file limit!), you can - and the MIDI
and other small files can be easily retained on the non-AV HDs.

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David Ruether
http://www.fcinet.com/ruether
ruether@fcinet.com