AVI archiving results using WinZip - Yippeeee

[Dennis]

Hello,

I hadn't realised how powerful a tool WinZip could be.

I just zipped up a 53Gb Jupiter Avi folder from 14th April and a 26Gb Jupiter Avi folder from 10th April and the resultant archives were 4.4Gb and 2Gb respectively.

This means I can now archive to an external USB drive and also burn to DVD which gives me a lot more live storage. It has only taken me to Version 10 to discover this……..

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy (David)]

COngratulations on your discovery! Commisserations on the processing time to get there!

[iceman (Mike)]

lol Dennis, you poor thing

yeh winzip/winrar does a great job on the avi's, because they're mostly black space!

[Vermin (Tom)]

AVIs are movies made of bitmaps aren't they?

If so, then yeah they should compress (non-lossy) substantially.

[Robby]

But will you ever use the AVI's again? I used to archive AVI's but don't bother anymore unless they are truely spectactular.
Reality is I'd never use them again.
Cheers

[Striker (Tony)]

I'm the same Robby...all my original raws or odd AVI's are deleted....I dont like looking backwards...if I want another image of the target because of better software or change of equipment or plain old more experience I will look forward to taken it again next year....otherwise the gigs just mount up never to be used.