Idea Archiving 4K or 1080p footage.

Hi Derek,
I have been away from video creation a bit this past year, due other priorities. Two years ago I bought a new SONY AX100 camera, a great 1080-50p or 4K-25p camera. Unfortunately I have not used it much. I used it to record in 1080-50p a family video and edited using VP14 & saved footage in MP4 to a Samsung portable solid state drive. The resultant picture played back through the SONY UBP-X800 players USB3 plug was excellent even though it was in MP4 and played on a 65” 4K TV. I would have preferred to have chaptered it and burned it to a BD-R disk but it would have interlaced or to 25p.
So good was the picture from the hard drive I tried to find any whisper of the UHD Blu-ray disk but soon realised my DVD architect wasn’t capable anyway. I could use a
BDXL ‘M’ disk to archive and store the chapters under the video title folder on the hard drive I guess. Archiving to ‘M’ disk would be expensive & I still can’t chapter like a BD-R creation?!
What’s the latest thinking Derek, where is 1080-50p & 4K at for archiving?
Kind regards
Warren Eagleton.

Hi Warren

I don't know if there is any latest thinking on this topic, but this is what I am noticing.

The only trend that does seem to be happening, is more and more people are using NAS servers at home.
A NAS drive (server) has much larger capacity than internal hard drives in your computer.
Every device in your home can then access the NAS for play back.
www.pccasegear.com/category/617/nas

So in answer to your question, I think more and more people will be using large capacity NAS drives.
They can be set up in many different configurations.
Example: Every file can be copied twice, so you have a backup.

When I have enough funds, this is the solution I will be going for.
My PC is bursting with Hard Drives and I can't put anymore in.
It makes more sense to invest in a NAS Drive as my long term storage/archive solution.

Regards
Derek

Thanks, its very interesting that you and many others are thinking like this. Because I have been always after the best picture possibe I have not considered MP4 quite so much. However in making this last movie of family I was struck by the great quality achievable with a small file size! For a person like me I think having the ability to store these video's on a BDXL 'M' disc is probably the cheaper & safer option than a portable hard drive that are expensive and not unknown to fail. The file I have mentioned was 1.7GB and the duration was 28mins, that means a one hour movie would only occupy some 3.6 to 3.7 GB in 1920x1080 50p MP4. So by my calculations a BDXL 'M' disc could store about 27 hrs of MP4. Thanks for sharing your ideas as well Derek.
Regards.