Suggestions for backing up captured video digitally

Hi all,
My church is using an Imac (2.4ghz/1gb ram) to capture video of our church sermons. We use a Panasonic GS-320 which runs through a WD MyBook 500 gb external HD then into the Imac. We capture in Imovie directly then let the video file sit. Our intent is to upload these videos to the net for later streaming and such. Our problem is that we have 13-15gb videos that just sit, and now both hardrives are full. We would like to render these huge files to something smaller for the purpose of archiving but have them at a resolution that is still editable and to also add in simple titles and such later on. Right now I'm rendering to .mov (mpeg 4) @ 720x480. Any suggestions?

Archiving a smaller file at full-resolution is a bit of a contradiction! Especially when you add that you may want to edit that file later. DV material is 13GB/hour is arguably already the lowest file size you want for archiving/editing later. Smaller files via different forms of compression are meant for delivery, not archiving and/or editing. With a mini-DV camera you have the best archiving option of all formats: the tape itself. You could even send an edited sequence back to tape. To date, tape has been the most robust and reliable solution for any type of archiving. Data tape back up systems are fairly expensive. After DV tape comes hard drive storage. I strongly recommend investigating a hard drive tower. I personally use a MacGurus (http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/firewire/burlyfwenclosure.php) but there are several manufacturers. The advantage to such a system is that as hard drives fill up, you just pop a new one in and store the "old" one. And buying bare bones drive will save money in the long run over always buying a new external drive. And hard drives are cheap/GB. Cheaper than other storage methods. And faster. And besides tape, the most reliable. From there is is a simple matter of cost analysis: if a sermon is one-hour then you could fit let's say 30 sermons on one 500GB drive. A 500GB is roughly $100. That is $3 and change/sermon.
Mike

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Encoded date                     : UTC 2013-08-22 13:15:21
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