[Avid-L2] Archiving Short Form Projects onto Blu-ray Discs

Full Disclosure: I've cross-posted this on the Avid Forum -- so please disregard it there.

I will be working on a very large number of short form projects over a period of years that will need to be archived for possible future revision. The chances of a revision are low -- but definitely not zero.

As I work on these project, I plan on keeping my AvidMediaFile folders segregated -- so that only one project's media is ever stored in any one AvidMediaFile folder. And I'd like to archive these projects individually -- not as a group.

These completed project archives would definitely fit on 25GB or 50GB Blu-ray Discs. And the shelf life requirements of these archives are very finite -- after 2-3 years there will be no reason to hang on to the archive.

So I was thinking that for the price and relative stability of BD-R discs -- I should consider archiving onto this format.

I know there are potential issues with optical discs regarding the number of directory levels -- which I don't think would be a problem with the AvidMediaFile folder. And I believe there might be some issues with optical discs using ISO9660 versus UDF -- and "Allowing Files That Exceed Size Limits". At the same time, I am under the impression that those issues are more related to CD and DVD discs -- rather than Blu-ray Discs.

Can anyone think of a reason why I would not want to archive my Avid Projects, AvidMediaFile Folders and other miscellaneous job-related files onto Blu-ray discs?

Thanks for your input.

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