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The question started coming to my mind though of the best place to store these large, original video files? Is it better to get an external hard drive to store all of these files on? I can tell you if that’s the solution, then I’m going to probably need to go ahead and start looking at a terabyte drive or more.

I then started wondering if maybe burning them to DVD would be better? Lots of available media in my house for that and fairly cheap. Also somewhat easier to organize and access them as needed, at lease for actual archive purposes.

Perhaps the better question to ask is what media for long term storage is going to be the best bet not so much months or a year from now, but more years from now. Which method is going to be the more easily managed type of storage years from now when storage solutions could look very different.

I’m not sure if it’s a valid thought or not, but my other potential storage location was to just upload everything to a video sharing site. Who knows what the long-term validity of an online site will be though.

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The Question of Ongoing Long-term Storage

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It’s absolutely perfect for this kind of stuff and came in really handy today. I was able to quickly get clips of each of his team members batting that I’m sure their families will enjoy seeing once I get them posted to Vimeo, my preferred online sharing location for video. The quality is just so much better than what you get on YouTube.

The Flip is just handy for pulling out of your pocket and grabbing a quick video of something you’d like to remember or share with others. In my opinion it’s even handier than my digital camera most of the time. It’s almost single button operation allows you to quickly pull it out, turn it on and almost immediately start recording.

One area I think it could be improved on though is the ability to choose more locations to upload your video from the Flip software you use to manage the files. Vimeo isn’t one of the locations currently specified, so I have to do stuff a bit manually.

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Sunny Days, Baseball and The Flip Camera