Archiving Videos- what is best?

[cpitchford]

I am an old lady librarian and this year the kids and I have done many newsprograms. We have learned a lot together about using Adobe Premier Elements 3.0. I am retiring and I want to archive all the programs we did this year. All of our resources are taking up a lot of space. I want copies and I want to leave copies with the school. Our videos were usually 5-10 minutes each. When we would get a project finshed we always exported it as a WMV file because we put it up on the school network and the teachers would show them on their ActiveBoards.

So, how would you suggest I might best save these? I had thought about taking each of the wmv files and make a new Premier project (with all of our newsprograms) and then I could do a menu and burn it to DVD and watch it on tv. Right? I can do that can't I?

Or, should I just do it the easy way which is to just burn all the wmv files to a dvd and it would have to watched in a computer (correct?)

Thanks for help and advice.

[Byron Gale]

cpitchford,

If you still have your Premiere Elements projects, why not just create a DVD from there?

Byron

[ATR]

Continuing along Byron's question, what exactly do you have at this time besides the .wmv version of your Premiere Elements 3 projects? Do you still have the project file (.prel) + media used and/or did you get involved with the Project Archiver/Copy under the Project Menu?

Was it the .wmv version that you displayed via a computer network? What was the quality of that display?

These are some options, quality of the end product may or may not be an issue:
1. If all you have is the .wmv version of a project, you could try getting it to the Timeline and Burn to Disc to create a DVD-VIDEO version which can be played on the TV via the TV/DVD player and played in a program such as Cyberlink Power DVD on the computer.
2. If you just take the .wmv files and burn them to a DVD (Create Data Disc with software that came with your burner), then you should be able to play them on the computer with a program such as Windows Media Player.

The best quality will come if you have the projects files and connected media that you used and use burn to disc to create a DVD-VIDEO.

There have been several threads about archiving video programs.

Lets us start here.

ATR

[ATR]

This is just one of the threads that related to archiving video.

http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27640

ATR