I am limited on hard drive space. I have enough space to do the video work on DV stuff, etc, but not enough room to store the hundreds of gigs of DV-AVI files should I ever want to re-edit any of this. So, I got to thinking - DV tapes already have a frame-accurate timestamp on them (I think), and the tapes are relatively cheap, so why not just keep the data on the tape?

What I need is a tool that will, when you first pull the video off the tape, mark (and prefferably save to a config file) the start and stop timecodes read from the tape along with the name of the file it was saved to. Then, after all my editing is done, I just save these config files and the project file from my video mixing software (all of which should be easily burnable to CDR or some other media). When I want to edit again, I just open up this program again, pop in the cheap DV tape, and tell it to re-grab the video data, just as it did before.

Has someone already created something like this (or perhaps one of the larger commercial programs already has this feature)? If so, can someone please provide a link to where I may obtain it?