Blu-ray archiving

Roxio's website, maker of Toast, states that blu-ray discs will hold 50gigs of data. is anyone out there using blu-ray on a mac for archiving purposes and if so, how much video are you getting on a single sided 25gig or a 50gig? I have a large library of DVCAM footage and I want to know what is the best quicktime codec/compression scheme to use for transfering my library to blu-ray to get as much as possible on a disk without losing much quality. Currently, my plan is to buy a blu-ray dvd burner, capture my footage with quicktime as DVNTSC 720x480 48khz and then save those files for burning to DVD. Any ideas?

Well sometimes logging and capturing can be a bit of an issue (and you have to check to make sure everything was bought back in properly), but I think ultimately it comes down to a judgment call on how you want to store things. At this point I just get Hard Drives like floppies, put them in marked cases then store them in the event I need to pull them out. Have hundreds of hours stored that way and for me it is easier in terms of time and workflow just to grab them in case I need to make changes. You can store over 50 hours (DV or HDV) on a 750 Gig hard drive and save the tapes for just in case.

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    I have a Canon Vixia HV30 camcorder that I have used to take HD footage.  I would like to archive the tapes' raw footage (for backup purposes) and also burn a blue-ray for each tape.  Prior to the Canon (and switching to Macs) I had been using Studio on a Windows system to do the same for footage from a standard def Sony camcorder.  Despite reading through the material on this forum and elsewhere I am confused about a couple of items and am hoping someone can help me understand how to archive and burn the camroder footage to BD easily.
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    2.  If the answer to # 1 is yes, iMovie converts the raw footage, is there another program that I can use in a Mac-environment that will simply download the footage in it's original format?
    3.  iMovie also splits up the footage into clips vs. showing one file and I cannot combine the clips into one clip (to be analogous to the workflow I have been used to in Studio).  Is there a way to do so?  Short of backing up my entire laptop (which I do), how can I extract the original footage from iMovie and copy it for archiving on a NAS drive?
    4.  Where is the best "place"/approach to perform basic editing (adding menu, adding chapters for different sections of the disc, etc.) on the footage?
    5.  If the answer to #4 is iMovie, would I then simply burn the iMovie project in Toast to Blue-ray?
    I had thought achieving my goals would have been easy in a Mac environment (like it is for everything else) but am surprised to find it so difficult compared to how easy it was in Studio.  (Am I really better off getting a lower-end Windows 7 desktop and upgrading Studio and keep that just for converting our HD camcorder tapes to blue-ray?  I would rather not do so of course.)
    Thanks in advance for your help.

    Calbe and AppleMan1958
    Thanks for the replies.  Based on your replies, I think I can stay in the Mac-environment.
    1 and 2.  I cannot archive as AppleMan1958 suggested to keep the original without conversion because the footage is HDV 1080i.  I understand however that iMovie will import and convert using a lossles codec.  (The camera is tape-based and doesn't show up in Finder.)
    3.  Having archived copy (if there is software that will let me do so for HDV) will negate the need to find the iMovie "version" but if necessary can do so directly.
    4.  One follow-up questions...if I use iMovies, do I simply use the project or the actual movie for purposes of burning to disc?
    5.  I agree Calbe...it's different so I'm thinking it's difficult.  I am sure I'll get the hang of it once I better understand how the flow works from camera to disc!
    AppleMan1958, is there another consumer level app that you can recommend that I can use for archiving HDV?
    Thanks for the quick replies.
    Hollistonma

  • Archiving on Blue-ray.. what are the issues that people are afraid of..?

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    My thoughts are that Blue-Ray is the sweet spot at the moment but I have heard people on this forum saying that the life of the media is questionable and comparable to various DVD media types.
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    I'm considering how my latest storage monster toy (Hi definition camcorder) is going to eat disk space and realise that very very soon I'm going to want to move archived projects onto some external media that isn't going to consume that spare room in my house.
    I dislike the idea of using a ton of external USB disks for the reasons above and the environmental factors associated with those disks and tape drives.. well it gets kinda expensive real quick when you start to look at current models and limited lifecycles that tape drives have before they need replacing.
    My thoughts are that Blue-Ray is the sweet spot at the moment but I have heard people on this forum saying that the life of the media is questionable and comparable to various DVD media types.
    I did a little digging and found that Archive quality non-organic BD-Rs that use a SiCu substrate approximate the UDO disk format that is traditionally used by large organisations for archival storage.
    The UDO format has a life of approximately 100 years and some BD-R vendors are certifying their media for ~50 years. (cost about £25 for dual layer 50Gb today).
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  • Archiving for future blue ray?

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    If you are exporting out to a Standard Definition miniDV camcorder, then your content is still being downsized to 720x480, even if you started with a HD sequence. You could export back to a HDV camcorder.
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    I do the same thing.
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    Follow up question:
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    Now I apologize if it's a silly question if it's known that you can't make a playable blu ray with Disc Utility, but I don't know either way, that's just what I've read and this is the first time I've tried it. 
    Soooooooo, if I always make a disc image, should I just get Toast and use that to make the blu ray?
    By the way, a brief update:  the whole reason this thread came up was because my Pioneer blur ray burner goes offline (sleep) after an hour or so and doesn't come back or wake up.  So with a long processing time in Compressor the drive goes offline and then can't burn the disc, so I lose that whole session.  Turns out that Pioneer (by their own admission) is not made to be fully compatible with Macs!!  In particular Mac Pros.  I took that drive out and replaced it with an LG.  Haven't tested it yet but I'm looking forward to it.
    Eric

  • HELP!How to create HD disc that will play back in HD DVD or Blu-Ray player?

    Footage comes from Panasonic HVX200 as DVCPRO HD 1080i60, all appropriate settings made in FCP5 to edit. Have already made SD DVD, whoopie.
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    The point here is there certainly are options that work. I do wish Apple added Blu-Ray burning capability.
    There's still room for that, however... FCS 1 (and even now 2, with AVCHD support, albeit non-native) have histories of adding new support for codecs, etc. in free updates.

  • Advice for backing up media - Blu Ray? Anyone try it?

    I am currently using external drives to back up lots of video and was wondering if anyone has tried using a Blu Ray burner to do this? Not sure what the data limitations of the disk are? Are there external ones? Would you recommend it or wait a bit longer?
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    Absolutely, original tapes, along with a project in which they've been properly logged and captured, are the best form of backup.
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    I agree Blu-ray isn't cost-effective yet per GB, and DVD-5 requires a lot of time and patience to archive. But it's still a good, safe way to back up material like this, IMHO. To steal Shane's example, drop a DVD and a hard drive from a foot off the ground and see which still works. I do archive to hard drives to keep things accessible, but I know too well how vulnerable that storage medium is to failure.
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  • Burning Blu-Ray without toast , i found this ... true or false infos.

    It is now possible to burn DVD Blu-Ray data DVD under Mac OS X 10.5.1 with Disk Utility , see the link below and go to the bottom of the page :
    http://www.hardmac.com/news/2007-12-05/#7523

    This is news for me as i was waiting for so long for a native burning solution , the first step before the iDVD and DVD Studio Pro received the much needed updates .....
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