This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] M-Disc - 100GB Optical Disc with a 1,000 Year Shelf Life

Friday, July 3, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] M-Disc - 100GB Optical Disc with a 1,000 Year Shelf Life

Well I for one hope that film/media students for the next several centuries will have to study my pioneering work on the 3D swimsuit spectacular back in the mid 80's. Perhaps scientists in the future can actually figure out how that Clam bikini was held on. I humbly hope to be known as the "Fish Wipe Master" forget that silly Ken Burns effect a Trout Wipe spans the great expanse of time IMHO. They may forget what the 300 switcher was but the Fish Wipes it produced will live to swim through pictures long into the future. So far I've yet to see a digital archive technology worthy of my Fish Wipe Library, but I can always dream can't I?

See what happens when I have to do these darn ProResHQ mixdowns in Avid. Too much idle hands time. ;-)

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <albion@...> wrote :

More generally rhetorical. I just cleaned through 20 years of archival material (was very satisfying). I have a digital archive of most masters, but really I could cull that down to 10% or less if I was as ruthless as I am when I cut for clients.

In thinking about how many major features are made each year (which along with independents is only accelerating), I wonder sometimes how films like Citizen Kane or North By Northwest will fare 50, 100, or 500 years from now. Then extrapolate to almost everything else any of us on this list work on.

On Jul 3, 2015, at 5:34 PM, blafarm@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> What percentage of what you are working on will need to be archived past 10 years?

Not sure this question is directed at me or the members of List.
For me and the spot/promotional work I cut, that number is probably zero.
For my own projects 'yes' -- I'd like to be able to look back.
But, sadly, the majority of my paid work has a naturally limited shelf life.
That's really why I wrote in my M-DISC piece that I only needed 5-10 years.