Colorlab does very affordable digital to film transfers in both 16mm (4K) and 35mm. 35mm with optical track is only $.50/ft. These are direct to print — so no generation loss, but also no negative. (They can obviously do negatives to but it’s much more expensive.)
But a filmout is not really the same thing as a video. Another possibility is to put it on the cloud, where the cloud service ostensibly keeps everything backed up. I also have a server with RAID 6 which gives double redundant spare drives. Two drives (total 12) can fail and the data can still be recovered automatically. SSDs may also be a potential backup as they have no moving parts to fail. Most SSD failure is caused by too many write cycles but that wouldn’t be an issue with a backup drive. Jeff Kreines Kinetta j...@kinetta.com kinetta.com Sent from iPhone. > On Sep 11, 2022, at 3:52 PM, S. Mullen <dvci...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is the 6-7 years powered (spinning)? > >> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 1:22 PM FrameWorks Admin <framewo...@re-voir.com> >> wrote: >> Yes, film output is common practice. Film kept in the right conditions of >> temperature and humidity can last 200 years; this is called passive storage. >> Otherwise the digital files have to be constantly copied, called active >> storage. The average life span of a hard drive is 6-7 years. >> >> One way to manage your files is to set up a RAID array in which the files >> are constantly being backed up across several drives with redundancy. In the >> eventuality that one drive fails, you can swap in a fresh drive and the data >> will be reconstructed. But it is a good idea to have two of these mirrored, >> and in separate locations! An easy system to set up is a Synology >> Diskstation, a unit the size of a toaster, with slots for 2, 4, 6 or 8 >> drives of any size. >> >> - Pip Chodorov >> >> >> >>> On Sep 12, 2022, at 5:03 AM, Albert Alcoz <albertal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Can it be an option to transfer the digital video file to 35mm or 16mm film? >>> I heard this process is common in commercial fiction feature films that >>> have currently been recorded digitally in order to preserve work without >>> relying on hard drives. >>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 7:39 PM Philip Jozef Brubaker >>>> <philipbrubake...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> For all of you who work with digital video, can you recommend a storage >>>> method to keep those files alive (as long as you are?) External hard >>>> drives will fail after several years. Other than continually moving a >>>> zipped file from one old drive to a new one, is there a better way to >>>> store and preserve your digital work for the long-term? >>>> >> >> -- >> Frameworks mailing list >> Frameworks@film-gallery.org >> https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > -- > Frameworks mailing list > Frameworks@film-gallery.org > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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