Well Written Article on ARCHIVING

Archiving is a bit like doing your taxes (OK, I’m sorry, didn’t mean to leave this on a bad note. It’s nowhere near as bad as taxes, but bear with me here). If you don’t take care of the accounting for your finances daily, weekly and monthly, and you wait until April to calculate all things money, you won’t be loving life, at least in the first two weeks of April. But if you label your tapes methodically, keep all of your assets in a single folder, organize your file names and keep good notes, archiving will be a simple, and believe me, a rewarding final step in your production
That was an extract of the last paragraph of the article “Backing Up: Best Practices” http://www.videomaker.com/article/14395/

like what huanjin have said, I have been doing this archiving job all on my own thus far, I really should pass down the knowledge and move on.

My only problem is that Archiving is a tedious and boring job by nature. Unless the person who’s doing it has a solid future time perspective, it will be just another SAI KANG for him/her.

With CatDV acquired, I will spend more time on devising a proper Archiving Work Flow. By the looks of it, we will be start burning a lot of DVDs real soon.

In a way, the HDD Video Camera is really a savior! Love it!

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