ChrisJBrady
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I have just purchased a EX99 for digitising archival VHS tapes - both professionally recorded and amateur.
I have just read through the manual and I am alarmed by two things to do with the hard-drive.
1/ It is clearly stated that the hard-drive is fragile and not suited to storing archival recordings. I thought that hard-drives were the only reliable media for the storage of archival digital files. If not then what is? I understand that DVDs / CDs are not suitable due to decomposition aka bit-rot.
2/ There does not seem to be a way of backing-up the contents of the hard-drive - as a computer professional the need for this has been drummed into me for my entire career. I regularly back-up my computers' hard drives, why can't I do this for the EX99?
As an additional question I have tried dubbing some programmes onto a RAM disk. Then I have tried to read this disk on a computer. It plays OK but all of the chapters / programmes are all joined into one long VRO file. How can I split this up into the original separate programmes? I don't want to get into video conversions because these are archival recordings and I need to keep the quality as high as possible.
Thank you.
P.S. In case you're wondering I am using newly purchased (and discounted) domestic equipment for this project because I was refused funding to get the work done more professionally. Now I have to save the VHS recordings before they deteriorate further.
I have just read through the manual and I am alarmed by two things to do with the hard-drive.
1/ It is clearly stated that the hard-drive is fragile and not suited to storing archival recordings. I thought that hard-drives were the only reliable media for the storage of archival digital files. If not then what is? I understand that DVDs / CDs are not suitable due to decomposition aka bit-rot.
2/ There does not seem to be a way of backing-up the contents of the hard-drive - as a computer professional the need for this has been drummed into me for my entire career. I regularly back-up my computers' hard drives, why can't I do this for the EX99?
As an additional question I have tried dubbing some programmes onto a RAM disk. Then I have tried to read this disk on a computer. It plays OK but all of the chapters / programmes are all joined into one long VRO file. How can I split this up into the original separate programmes? I don't want to get into video conversions because these are archival recordings and I need to keep the quality as high as possible.
Thank you.
P.S. In case you're wondering I am using newly purchased (and discounted) domestic equipment for this project because I was refused funding to get the work done more professionally. Now I have to save the VHS recordings before they deteriorate further.
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