Timeline for Saving disk space, but not quality
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| Oct 26, 2015 at 17:26 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @Doris - how many hours did you get in to that 10TB? Using something like the DV codec for SD video should yield about 4.7 minute per GB or roughly 50 to 55 hours per TB if my memory serves. (It's been a while since I did anything in SD resolution.) If you are using much more than that for storage, you may want to transcode to DV which is still perfectly editable. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 16:52 | comment | added | Doris | Hi, A.J., Jason and Peter! I'm still Transferring my 8 mm videos to .avi I've used A LOT of space (about 10 TB) and still have another 100 hours to transfer!! Today I was wondering if it's worth to spend all that money, because I ran out of hard drives, I have to buy some more!! I googled, and... came back to my 2014 question, and to your answers!! They helped me make my decision then, and now, you help me again!!! I guess I'll wait for Black Friday and get maybe another 10 TB !!!! My 20 years of family videos are worth every penny!! Thanks again guys!!! And again, and again!! | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 16:51 | vote | accept | Doris | ||
| Jan 15, 2015 at 9:38 | comment | added | Peter Cordes |
If it's video you might want to watch in 30 years, don't skimp on quality if you're going to archive in a lossy format. Turn up the settings on your encoder so it spends more CPU time to get better quality for the same filesize. And use higher quality than what just barely looks ok on your current monitor. Presumably displays will be even bigger in the future. e.g. x264 with -preset veryslow -crf 16 might be a good choice for archiving (in the very-widely-used h.264 which you'll probably be able to decode on computers forever, even long after the patents expire.)
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| Nov 10, 2014 at 13:29 | comment | added | Jason Conrad | I would also encourage you to buy more storage space and encode at the best possible quality. You never know when those videos have a large potential value. What you do know is that storage space will be cheaper in the future. | |
| Nov 9, 2014 at 16:22 | history | answered | AJ Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |