Archive formats

Does anyone know the best format to store video on an external HD? IMovie project takes a lot of memory but img can't be edited without ripping & losing a generation. There must be a format that allows the maximum flexibility but most importantly maintains the best quality for the longest time. Also, is transferring VHS tapes to digital best done by recording on a digital camcorder?

Thanks for the responses so far guys. Yes - I was talking about saving edited sequences. The reason why I started to archive uncompressed 10bit files, is simply because when I compared them to saved .mov files in DV or HDV format, they always looked better. I know it doesn't make sense, but to my untrained eye, that's just how things worked out. I'll give the ProRes format a try to see how that looks in comparison to uncompressed.
Also - I do have the original tapes as my actual archive. This is more a way for me to save the edited sequence so that I can view them as quicktime movies on any of my machines, even those without FCP installed (which is why I avoid saving the FCP project/raw capture files as an archive). Once I mark a project as "complete" I never go back to it in FCP, so an "archived" quicktime movie of my edited sequences is a great archive medium for me.
Thanks for any additional insight.
Bobby

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Pacman throws "unrecognized archive format" error for .xz packages

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I am recently getting the following error while installing packages which are in .xz format only.
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sudo pacman -S pacman //works fine. as it is packaged in a .gz format
sudo pacman -S xterm // error while reading pakage /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-261-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz -- unrecognized archive format: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character.
I tried using the -U switch to install it -- I got the following little different message:
$ sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-261-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
error: error while reading pakage /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-261-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz: unrecognized archive format: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character.
error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-261-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz': libarchive error
I have libarchive-2.8.4-1 on my system ( I have reinstalled it. )
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alpm_trans_commit(,,, <unfinished ...>
printf("checking package integrity...\n")
fflush(...)
dcgettext(0, 0x805x690, 5, ...) = 0x8058690 ---- AFAIK, this one gets local specific string
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t@n6re ~]# ldd /usr/bin/pacman
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc9bff000)
libalpm.so.5 => /usr/lib/libalpm.so.5 (0x00007f4c44445000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4c440e9000)
libfetch.so => /usr/lib/libfetch.so (0x00007f4c43ed9000)
libarchive.so.2 => /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2 (0x00007f4c43c96000)
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4c44668000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f4c43a3a000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f4c4367e000)
libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x00007f4c43477000)
libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x00007f4c43273000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f4c4304b000)
liblzma.so.0 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0 (0x00007f4c42e29000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f4c42c19000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f4c42a01000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4c427fd000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4c425e0000)
[root@n6re ~]#

[SOLVED] xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format

Since today I cannot upgrade my system as I get the following errors:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/xorg112.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/catalyst-hd234k.db: Unrecognized archive format
I already searched the forum and found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135310 but the suggestions there do not solve the problem
> sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync/
> pacman -Syuf
The relevant stuff in the pacman.conf file looks as follows:
[xorg112]
Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/xorg112/$arch
[catalyst-hd234k]
Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst-hd234k/$arch
Why I get the "Unrecognized archive format" error and what I can do to avoid/fix this?
Last edited by lasombra (2013-03-04 19:22:25)

The server has changed so all you need to do is replacing "catalyst.apocalypsus.net" with "catalyst.wirephire.com".

Openssh unrecognized archive format

Me again...
Does anyone know why makepkg complains about unknown an archive format for the openssh tarball:
fukawi2@kangaroo ~/abs/openssh $ makepkg
==> Making package: openssh 5.2p1-1 i686 (Sat Jun 13 17:02:37 EST 2009)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
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-> Found sshd in build dir
-> Found sshd.confd in build dir
-> Found sshd.pam in build dir
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openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz ... Passed
sshd ... Passed
sshd.confd ... Passed
sshd.pam ... Passed
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bsdtar: Unrecognized archive format
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
==> ERROR: Failed to extract openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz
Aborting...
And yet I can use tar to extract it fine?
fukawi2@kangaroo ~/abs/openssh $ tar xvzf openssh-5.2p1.tar.gz | head
drwxr-xr-x djm/djm 0 2009-02-23 11:18 openssh-5.2p1
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-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 5545 2006-08-31 03:24 openssh-5.2p1/CREDITS
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-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 9417 2007-08-17 22:52 openssh-5.2p1/INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 16000 2007-03-13 07:37 openssh-5.2p1/LICENCE
-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 17427 2008-11-05 16:20 openssh-5.2p1/Makefile.in
-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 6718 2006-08-05 12:39 openssh-5.2p1/OVERVIEW
-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 9504 2009-02-14 18:00 openssh-5.2p1/PROTOCOL
-rw-r--r-- djm/djm 16760 2008-07-02 22:35 openssh-5.2p1/PROTOCOL.agent

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gzip openssh-5.2p1.tar
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Is new backup required after changing compatible and archive format?

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I have just switched a couple weeks ago from Final Cut (Mac) to Premiere CS5 (PC).
I have 10 sequences (songs from a concert) that I am wanting to store long-term. They were filmed on a Canon T2i (1920x1080, 29.97fps, H264). It was edited natively in CS5. I've looked at the H264 Blu-Ray codec, but the file sizes are a little larger than I can handle. I guess when I say that, I am also inserting that I will be using whatever archive format I decide on for future projects. With a 3.5 minute song, the Blu-Ray High-Quality codec gives me a 800mb file. I am looking for something in the 300mb range.
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...optical disc seems to be the best long-term archival medium to me. Am I correct on that, or is there something else I'm overlooking?
So far, optical disc is not proving to be the long-term archival format of choice. Even the "gold" discs which are supposedly more designed for protracted storage start deteriorating pretty rapidly. Maybe if you store them at the perfect temperature/humidity/elevation/etc. they'd be more reliable, but I think anything of real value shouldn't end up on a burned disc. In a few years, discs are going to be completely obsolete, anyway.
Hard drives are OK; they're cheap enough these days were you can make a duplicate or two, which should be standard practice anyway.
LTO tape is probably one of the best archive mediums available right now. The tape itself is dirt-cheap (the drives--not so much) and stores a huge amount of data. Considering that the technology was developed for the financial industry, it's pretty bombproof.

FCP Archive Formats

When you complete a project in FCP, what do you use as the "Archive" format for your sequences, aside from the original tapes (I primarily shoot in DV, but am just now moving to HDV)? I've gotten accustomed to exporting a 10Bit uncompressed SD version of each of my main clips, and I keep these for as long as I can. Obviously since I don't have a huge quantity of work, I can get away with uncompressed .mov files. I'm curious to hear what everyone else does? What are the highest quality formats that can be exported from FCP and played in quicktime? I'd like to find a happy medium between DV and 10bit Uncompressed that will save me some disk space, but still give me quality that is equal to or close to the uncompressed files that I'm exporting now. With my switch to HDV, I'm guessing the file size increase is going to be more and more of a limiting factor for me regarding 10bit uncompressed files.
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Bobby

Thanks for the responses so far guys. Yes - I was talking about saving edited sequences. The reason why I started to archive uncompressed 10bit files, is simply because when I compared them to saved .mov files in DV or HDV format, they always looked better. I know it doesn't make sense, but to my untrained eye, that's just how things worked out. I'll give the ProRes format a try to see how that looks in comparison to uncompressed.
Also - I do have the original tapes as my actual archive. This is more a way for me to save the edited sequence so that I can view them as quicktime movies on any of my machines, even those without FCP installed (which is why I avoid saving the FCP project/raw capture files as an archive). Once I mark a project as "complete" I never go back to it in FCP, so an "archived" quicktime movie of my edited sequences is a great archive medium for me.
Thanks for any additional insight.
Bobby

DVD Production/Compressor/Archiving - Format?

I've spent a significant amount of time in the last few days on the boards, trying to come up with an answer for this... And while I'm much more educated, I haven't found someone with the exact answer.
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Suggestions on how to export from FCP into a format that will work for these different applications?
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Right about the separate tracks. The nice thing is about the QT file, is that DVD SP separates that out for me, and I kinda like that.
Good to know about DVD SP having a tendancy to crash. I haven't seen it do this yet, but good to know it's out there.
Yea, I see there is a lot more control in compressor than DVD SP. Yet, if I can do a simple QT movie and have DVD SP encode it, it helps my workflow a bit, only having one step to encode for archive, DVD, and air.
So let me ask this... The reason I like having one file to "do it all" is because it seems to make it easy. Encoding with the canopus before, we would have that MPEG file on our PC, and we could archive those to CD every so often. If someone comes back to us in a few months and says "Hey, can I get a DVD of that Show Choir performance", I have most likely ditched the media from my drive. So all I have to do is open my database to find the CD it's on, get that disc, and import the file back onto the computer, and burn using Nero, and it's finished.
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We also archive everything we do to full size DV CAM tapes. So, yes, we could re-import the finsihed video when someone wants a copy of something, but why do that if we can already have a digital file (Our MPEG file) on a CD already.
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Toshina External Hard Drive backup files in "archive" format

Hello. I had an issue with my Acer Aspire 7739z-4605 laptop so I backed up all my infomration on that C drive to the Toshiba Canvio External hard drive I just purchased. I connect my external hard drive via usb to my new computer that I want to import my backed up files onto. However, when I go to my external hard drive on this computer this is exactly what I see:
My backed up files are in this unknown format and obviously not in their original state. Is there a certain program I need to download on my new computer so that these files can be read and opened properly?
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I am in the process of copying all our VHS, 8mmHS, and miniDV tapes to DVD using a VHS/DVD recorder that also allows you to hook up the cameras and record to the DVD.
After I do that, I copy the files (VIDEO_TS) to my computer and an EHD. I have Steamclip and understand that I drag the VIDEO_TS folder to Steamclip.
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It is a little more expensive because it allows your Mac to receive TV signals through a rabbit ears antenna as well. I think EyeTV makes a version without the TV capability just for video capture, but I have not had any personal experience with it.
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Here is a sample of the quality I am getting through the EyeTV Hybrid.

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Where are you looking at your video? The Canvas is a low resolution display to optimize playback of multiple tracks of high data rate media. H.264 is a very good codec but has nothing to do with AIC or HD per se. To see your material at full resolution you either need to display it on an HD monitor or on a HD display, both of which require hardware support. To see you media closest to full resolution n a computer screen, set your canvas to 100% and play it back at full size. Bear in mind your media is 1080 interlaced. It's designed for display on an interlaced delivery system, i.e. a television set, not a computer.
Just to add: Pinnacle Liquid as always been an MPEG-2 based editing system, which none of Apple's products have ever been. The use of MPEG-2 by camera manufacturers has created huge problems for professional editing system. The Pinnacle solution works but is problematic at best because of the intraframe MPEG format that it's based on. Any real-time system based on MPEG will have issues, as can be seen in Apple's real-time HDV configurations. The same applies to Liquid and its implementation of AVCHD.
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I've send from Lightroom 5 photos in Jpeg format to my desktop that arrive as Archive and I'm unable to do anything with the photos. I want to put them in a folder but can't. It seems problem is in them being in 'archive'. Any suggestions?

I've exported photos from Lightroom 5 from my laptop to my wife's desktop. The photos arrive as Archive and she's unable to do anything with them, such as catalog them in an IPhoto folder with other photos. Is there an adjustment I need to make when exporting from Lightroom 5 so we can avoid this problem? Thank you.

Sorry - this is the iPhoto for Mac support forum - Your question does not involve iPhtoo for the Mac in any way - you need to contact Adobe or use an Adobe LR support forum for LR support
Afar as iPhoto is concerned it can import JPEGs and TIFFs - plus a few others - I have no idea what an archive format is and neither does iPhoto
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