To Brian Willoughby Oh I know all about backing up material in the best way possible... at work. But at home I tend to mess it up ... :-) The videos were captured using a DC20 with hardware compression MJPEG. The whole idea behind it was to make them comfortable in use and for easy playback whenever I felt the need to watch. But as I played a couple of them today, I was surpised that I didn't notice the poor sound quality when I 'backed them up'. Oh well. Hard lessens.
Rene,
Any time you capture something, always keep a backup of the original, uncompressed audio and video. Quality levels like 128k MP3 will sometimes become outdated, and eventually even MP3 will be replaced with MP4 or AAC. A lossless audio compression is fine, since you can get back the original exactly. I don't know as much about video, but I suppose there are some lossless video codecs as well, in case you don't have enough space for all your backups. Computer tape makes a great way to store original backups, so they don't take up hard disk space until you need to go back and bump up the compression quality for the publicly traded version.
128k mp3 wasn't a bad idea, I'm sure it was good enough for last year, but deleting your original capture was a mistake! ;-)
Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting
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