Export movie in microsoft AVI or microsoft DV AVI

[montreal]

Hello everyone

I've done 12 movies of about 10 minutes each with Premiere Pro and I've burn the DVDs with Encore.

Now my concern is to archive the original files and one movie output to make room in my computer.

I've found two freeware programs to make data DVDs with success so far:

- BurnOn CD/DVD Free v3.1 from: http://burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/index.htm

which I have been using so far because it is very straightforward

and - CDBurnerXP Pro from: http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

which I haven't used because there are many many options.

My question is in which format should I save my movies: microsoft AVI or microsoft DV AVI ?

My aim is to save them for later, let's say in a year I'm better at editing and want to rework them, so I'd import them in Premiere Pro. What do you think? They were originaly shot with mini DV cam.

Also do you think that Verbatim Datalife Plus are good?, how about Maxell? I'm an artist and these are video work creations, so archiving is an issue here.

Thanks

[dragon1976]

Re: Export movie in microsoft AVI or microsoft DV AVI ?

Hey Montreal, this might help a little bit:

I'm not sure of those freewares that you downloaded as far as performance, because I've never used them.
But for your concern about DV AVI or AVI check this out...

1. DV AVI : " This is the compression format that the digital video on your camcorder is recorded. The format is great, as the quality is outstanding and it can go through many generations of editing before degrading. However, videos saved in this format are very large … every minute of video takes up 200 megs of space. "

read the article : http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tu...SaveMovie.aspx


2. AVI format : "DV-AVI files should not be confused with ‘classic’ AVI files (the standard Video for Windows), which have the same extension *.avi but contain much less information."

read the article : http://www.noldus.com/site/doc200407019

I guess you like to have the best quality in your video?, just like anyone that cares about their work
How much space you want to spend on your archive/backup ?
My advise would be go with the highest quality and backup your information on aditional DVD's and remember to archive/backup your project files, this way later on you can manage you project without starting from scratch.

Any questions, let me know:
aragoneldragon@hotmail.com