I use to keep all my Mini DV Tapes WHAT now with AVCHD Format ?

I started shooting video way back in the seventies using tape and graduated to Mini DV in the nineties. NOW I have upgraded to a Panasonic TM700 AVCHD camera that records to flash memory.
I always kept my tapes as backups, never re-using them. Now with files on flash memory, how can I backup my unedited video shoots?
I am not keen on backing up to Hard Disks.
Should I just copy my originals to a BluRay data disk?
What are you doing out there?

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shooternz wrote:
Some thing to consider for a hobbyist.
Once a show is edited and the movie is made...how important is it to keep the original footage?  (The movie becomes the footage)
As other people have noted, improved technology can mean superior re-edits using the original maximum quality sources.
For shooternz, a specific example - nearly 10 years ago I got a 5 minute sequence of a pair of Wrybills mating in the Ashburton River near Lake Heron, using a lightweight tripod in a full-blown Nor'wester.  This was very shaky as gusts hit the camera, and the original edit was poor.  Better stabilisation software - Mercalli rather than the original Dynapel SteadyHand - has given me a greatly improved edit.
Also I am a natural hoarder, and am paranoid about data loss!

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