Archiving…
I’m listening to a podcast, and they are discussing some interesting things about archiving video…they are talking about how in order to archive a digital copy of a feature length film, costs upwards of 2000 dollars to archive the film, versus 500 dollars to transfer it to film and store it in a vault…
And they are also saying that film will live for 100 years, whereas the digital copy will only last 20-30 years…plus with the ever changing technology, we don’t even know if we are able to read these archives 20 years from now…
They also proposed that with the technology changing and now that we are moving to tapeless cameras, how are we going to preserve these digital files if they are not being backed up to tape initially…
With all the people scrambling to convert their 8mm films to digital…they are better off leaving them in 8mm, or at least hang on to them once they’ve been archived onto digital…