{"id":90,"date":"2008-09-07T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T09:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/blog\/bug-eats-vhs.html"},"modified":"2008-09-07T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T09:49:15","slug":"bug-eats-vhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/bug-eats-vhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug eats VHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who filmed home video from the 1980s -90s will is likely to have that footage in the VHS tape medium. I&#8217;ve just seen an item on a TV programme called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sundaylife\/\">Sunday Life<\/a> which warned that fungus is attacking these old tapes. So now may be a good time to digitise these old recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The way I&#8217;ll probably do this is to make real-time recordings from VHS to miniDV and then use Firewire to ingest that footage onto my hard disk where I can import it into an editing package and then render it out as a DV PAL file. I should probably use an open standard like DIV-X in an AVI container, because .mov is tied to the Apple Quicktime backward-compatability blind spot.<\/p>\n<p>What should I do next:\u00a0 burn that file as data on a DVD? Well that&#8217;ll give me up to another 25 years of not worrying. Until a story comes out warning about the flaking of DVD coatings after 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>And then I&#8217;ll start all over again&#8230;<br \/>\nI asked an experienced editor once: &#8220;What&#8217;s the most future-proof medium for archiving digital stories&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He replied: &#8220;Film&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who filmed home video from the 1980s -90s will is likely to have that footage in the VHS tape medium. I&#8217;ve just seen an item on a TV programme called Sunday Life which warned that fungus is attacking these old tapes. So now may be a good time to digitise these old recordings. The way I&#8217;ll probably do this is to make real-time recordings from VHS to miniDV and then use Firewire to ingest that footage onto my hard disk where I can import it into an editing package and then render it out as a DV PAL file. I should probably use an open standard like DIV-X in an AVI container, because .mov is tied to the Apple Quicktime backward-compatability blind spot. What should I do next:\u00a0 burn that file as data on a DVD? Well that&#8217;ll give me up to another 25 years of not worrying. Until a story comes out warning about the flaking of DVD coatings after 25 years. And then I&#8217;ll start all over again&#8230; I asked an experienced editor once: &#8220;What&#8217;s the most future-proof medium for archiving digital stories&#8221;. 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