Hi Joel,

You didn't say what type of video tapes are involved: Analog, Digital or
both.

Firstly: I wouldn't recommend any digitizing service unless you can
specify the resolution. On the subject of resolution: Go for the highest
quality that you think might be in use when your grandchildren want to
watch the videos. That said, I would go for, at least, 1080P. Yes, that
may be far in excess of the resolution of the source, but higher
resolution will pay off if any editing is to be done.

I digitized all of our VHS tapes and wrote about it here:
http://www.baileyzone.net/saving%20video.htm

Cloud storage services are great but remember that they all will
compress your files. I offer some options in the aforementioned article
and in other articles at my website.

Metadata: It will be captured in every frame of the digitized file. No
need to have it present all of the time for viewing. Disappearing titles
are one advantage of editing the video. (only edit _copies_ of the
original files, please.)

Cheers!

Corey
Corey Bailey Audio Engineering
www.baileyzone.net

On 12/11/2016 6:37 PM, Joel Bresler wrote:
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> I would like to digitize some camcorder footage. A few questions for anyone who has tackled a similar project.
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> First, there are plenty of services (Costco, etc.) which will digitize tapes onto DVDrs. I am wondering in this age of increasingly cheap storage if it makes more sense to go from tapes directly to digital files instead? (Avoids any quality issues going to DVD first and then ripping to digital; avoids issues with suitability of DVDrs for archival storage; renders video in editable, digital form right at the start.) Are there any suggested services that take this approach?
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> Second, any suggested quality level for the video? Is there any need to preserve it at a higher resolution than the original?
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> Third, suggested ways of storing the digitized video? (RAID array? Backed up on Amazon Web Services?)
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> And last, is there any way to capture date and time metadata on the transferred video? WITHOUT showing it continually on screen as the video plays?
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> Thanks in advance for your insights!
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> Regards,
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