What do to with Hd footage until I buy a Blu Ray burner.

Marczkiab

Newbie Location: Cleveland Joined: Feb 15, 2010 00:59 Messages: 21 Offline

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Feb 15, 2010 01:08

Hello,

I will be buying a blu-ray burner in a year or so. What do I do with all my Hd footage in the time being? I have a Sony Hdrx-500v. I record with full HD in 1920 x 1080. I dont want to lose quality by burning to DVD's. I know blu-rays will become cheaper in the future.
Do I just save the raw footage? I would like to edit the raw footage and save it on an external hard drive for future use. Do I produce, and if so, under what settings to keep my full HD 1920x1080 quality?

Also, I have been hearing about external hard drive media players. Would that be a better alternative than eventually burning to blue ray? I dont know much about these media players and could use some advice.

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CubbyHouseFilms

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Feb 15, 2010 02:31

Please provide your name.

This is a forum of video editors with a huge amount of knowledge and one of the 'rules' is we use a name. Happing editing

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Feb 16, 2010 06:31

I use an interface device with my TV.

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Alextzi

Newbie Joined: Mar 11, 2009 15:17 Messages: 47 Offline

Feb 16, 2010 09:20

Just burn to regular DVDs in AVCHD format (same codec as blu ray), only the media is different and cheaper. Plays in most Blu ray players.

Andy - XL

Senior Member Joined: Jan 24, 2007 11:28 Messages: 162 Offline

Feb 16, 2010 16:41

Alex,

You cannot fit much of AVCHD on a DVD.

Marc,
same dilemma here. For now, I am producing AVCHD .M2TS files and watch them on my PS3 by copying files to a compact flash card. I also keep all my original projects on the second HDD to be later burned to BDs once they as well as BD burners drop down in price. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Alextzi

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Feb 16, 2010 16:46

If you dont have many menus, you can fit about 30-35 minutes of AVCHD 1080i video on a regular 4.6GB DVD....(if you are running 24 MBps AVCHD then it will be much less).
Alex

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Aussieroo

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Feb 16, 2010 18:00

I agree with Dafydd. I too bought the WD media player (http://techreport.com/articles.x/16565) . I had a spare 80gb HDD from my old laptop and used it as my storage (for the meantime - saves buying the recommended Passport drive (same thing IMHO)). BD are so expensive.
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Feb 18, 2010 16:18

I got the Asus media player instead of WD (it was on sale).
Added a 500gig portable usb drive (iomega) and it works great.
I can even create a dvd iso (probably same for blue ray) and the media player plays that, so now I have dvd menus to select scens.
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