Storing your masters

[Jayn_Newell]

What about using masters so you can re-work and improve videos or make new encodes with minor alterations for contests and stuff?

As far as the first point, when I decide a video is finished it's finished, I don't feel I can do anymore to it. I may change my mind later on (I usually do), but if I get to the point of wanting to change a video I'd start again from scratch to avoid too much influence from the old version.

I do keep them around for making different encodes, but I enter few enough contests that it's not a major consideration for me.

[OzzieAlThor79]

I just upload them to the Org and leave them there.

the Org.

Your <i>masters</I>, not your distro copies.

You never know, he could just have really low quality masters. . . .

Or has found a way to bypass the org's 100 meg limit for files.

Actually, I just found my original large AVI's (Compression FTW!) on my spare hard drive.

They aren't worth keeping anyway (My videos are good enough I guess, they're just ugly as sin compared to the footage I am making - using the guide this time - for my next video).

[SarahtheBoring]

What about using masters so you can re-work and improve videos or make new encodes with minor alterations for contests and stuff?

I said MOST people, not all! Readplz. Most people don't enter contests, and I already said that the only reason I'd need them would be my own entertainment / curiosity.

I cannot imagine any scenario in which the world beats down my door, dying for a perfect copy of some video I made three years ago. This is an everyday occurrence for some people, but not most, and I am among the "most."

[Knowname]

I don't clip my videos so all I have to choose from is... well, the whole vobs. seems hard in the short run, but I do this so that in the long run storing up a video only takes... well less than a single cd. Like I said, it's a bit hard to find your clips that way, but if you just have the entire vob in use than you can just jot down what anime, how you made it, etc. and EASILY make it over again! Just kill your vob clip and store only the project file (and any original files you may have used) and text file. You have your whole AMV in less than 2mbs!! As I said it can be bigger depending on the amv. Original pics/ soundbytes etc. are pretty impossible to duplicate... but at least you don't have to store gigabytes of huffys! Also cleaning is a bit of an impossibility until after you finish with this method. But I think the gain is worth the risk...

Also it's just a hobby! Don't put so much effort into disaster recovery, I've lost and just plain deleted quite a few amvs... heck, I hardly keep MEP peices passed a few months. I might keep a compressed copy around, but I kill the clips even if I CAN'T remake them... just MEP peices and the like, mind you...