This thread
http://www.videoforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=5754 has prompted me to think about this again. The poster was originally asking if it was possible to include his captured AVIs on his DVD production, presumably as a form of archive.
Depending on the size of these, this is hardly a practical solution what with 15 mins or raw SD capture AVI to a single sided DVD-R.
So how does everyone do their project backups? Till now I've tended to perform batch captures of my tapes so that I can recapture exactly as before. That way I only need to archive off the project itself. Much more managable.
But now I work in high def, batch capture is not quite that usable. i.e. not guaranteed frame accurate. And what with the captured AVIs being some 40-odd Gb per tape running a bundle of these off to DVD-Rs surely can't be the best way. At the moment (early project stages) I'm just making sure I have an exact copy of everything on a seperate drive but I'm not that comfortable with this.
So what does everyone else do?