20 Oct
2003
20 Oct
'03
6:12 a.m.
On Oct 20, 8:10, John A. Dundas III wrote:
I have a number of old DECUS U.S. Symposium audio
tapes that I would
like to archive before they completely disintegrate. I have a way to
digitize these and store them in a variety of formats. I'm not sure
what format is best for archive and distribution, though I assume
something like WAV or AIFF for archive and MP3 for distribution.
That sounds reasonable, but beware of WAV -- although originally it was
effectively a byte-swapped AIFF format, it's been added to in so many
ways that a WAV file could contain just about anything. If you use
AIFF at 44100Hz you can write the tracks to a CD-R using just about any
writer software.
MP3 is pretty good for distribution. It's reasonably compact, better
supported than just about any other compressed format, and not likely
to go away any time soon. Of course, it's lossy so don't use it for
archives (I'm sure you weren't planning to).
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
20 Oct
20 Oct
7:29 a.m.
Thanks to all that responded. Looks like I found something worth
saving; maybe others have some of these audio tapes (decaying) in
their garages as well. I will attempt to carefully preserve the
original contents (lossless, well, analog to digital anyway) as well
as create a lossy copy for Internet distribution. A couple more
questions...
Is anyone else archiving these?
Is there a site already dedicated to this?
I'll post a note when electronic copies are available.
Thanks,
John
11:08 a.m.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, John A. Dundas III wrote:
Thanks to all that responded. Looks like I found
something worth
saving; maybe others have some of these audio tapes (decaying) in
their garages as well. I will attempt to carefully preserve the
original contents (lossless, well, analog to digital anyway) as well
as create a lossy copy for Internet distribution. A couple more
questions...
These are the kind of tapes that I love to collect and compile. If they
haven't already been archived by the ACM then folks like us certainly need
to do so.
I have a lot of old audio and video tapes (and other media) waiting to be
archived as soon as I get to that particular point in my overall project.
I have a couple hundred videos (in VHS and 3/4" format), hundreds of
slides, and a few dozen audio tapes (so far). I also have a fair number
of photographs, but I'm definitely lacking in that department (the
Computer History Museum has thousands).
Notwithstanding copyright issues, I plan to make copies available for
research, just as I do with the other stuff in my archive.
Don't expect anything anytime soon, however. There's still a lot of work
to do. But it is being done.
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11:28 a.m.
At 07:08 PM 20/10/2003, you wrote:
These are the kind of tapes that I love to collect and
compile. If they
haven't already been archived by the ACM then folks like us certainly need
to do so.
I have a lot of old audio and video tapes (and other media) waiting to be
archived as soon as I get to that particular point in my overall project.
I have a couple hundred videos (in VHS and 3/4" format), hundreds of
slides, and a few dozen audio tapes (so far). I also have a fair number
of photographs, but I'm definitely lacking in that department (the
Computer History Museum has thousands).
Notwithstanding copyright issues, I plan to make copies available for
research, just as I do with the other stuff in my archive.
Don't expect anything anytime soon, however. There's still a lot of work
to do. But it is being done.
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Hi, Sellam:
You had better watch those 3/4" tapes, they seem to want to self
destruct after about twelve or fifteen years.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox Video Production
793 Argyle Rd.
Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net
Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten"
at http://chasfoxvideo.com
4:20 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Charles E. Fox wrote:
You had better watch those 3/4" tapes,
they seem to want to
self destruct after about twelve or fifteen years.
Thanks for the tip. I got them about a year ago and definitely need to
get them digitized. They are from the late 1970s, but I'm guessing
they're still in operable order (California's climate is very forgiving on
media).
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