Storing captured videos for future use

[Kmroc]

Hello Friends,

I couldn’t know exact section for my post so I posted here. If wrong please show me correct section.

I have project involve transfer (capture) analog videos such VHS, Hi8 and DV formats through video capture card to PC, and then I want to make few things:
1- Convert video system from NTC to Pal.
2- Upscale them to full HD or Blu ray resolution playback.
3- Finally (and most important) store them in best format for future use, ability import them again to pc for full editing or upscale them to 4K or better.

I want to know:
1- What is best way to do all these things.
2- Is saving them in full HD or Blu ray resolution best storing method for future use?
3- And is Adobe premier pro cc and After effects perfect doing all these jobs, plus as editing softwars?

And thank you for answering.

[jagabo]

1- Convert video system from NTC to Pal.

Why? PAL TVs can display NTSC sources. Converting NTSC to PAL will degrade the video if you don't know what you're doing.

2- Upscale them to full HD or Blu ray resolution playback.

Unless you know what you're doing your TV will do as good a job at upscaling as you. And as TV upscaling improves your standard definition files will get better upscaling. Upscaling yourself requires a lot of knowledge, will be time consuming, and require more storage space. And you'll be stuck with the quality of the upscaling you get now (unless you keep your original SD sources too).

3- Finally (and most important) store them in best format for future use, ability import them again to pc for full editing or upscale them to 4K or better.

Some people store their videos on DVDs or Blu-ray discs, some on hard drives. Regardless of what you choose you need to keep multiple copies because discs/drives occasionally go bad. And you need to check them intermittently and replace any bad discs/drives with copies of the good ones. It's probably a good idea to keep parity files too -- increasing the likelihood of recovering data from bad discs/drives. If you're looking at long term storage you also need to consider how accessible the data will be 50 or 100 years from now. If you store them as MPEG 2 data (DVD MPG or VOB) there will probably still be software available to access them. If you use higher quality lossless codecs -- will those codecs still be available 50 years from now? It may be necessary to recompress them occasionally with the latest lossless codecs and containers to keep them easily accessible.

[Kmroc]

Thank you very much. I understand all.
In case I want save them on DVD or Blu ray discs for long term storage and easy access and copy them into computer any time in future, will this require certain file when burned on disc, not as movie file like DVD or Blu ray movies? If does what type of files?
(Sorry I have no experience about burning files in DVD discs)

[jagabo]

You can burn any kind of file to a DVD or Blu-ray disc. It's only if you want to play the videos on a DVD/BD player that the files need to conform to DVD/BD spec. Otherwise it's like any storage media where you can just copy the files off the discs back to the computer's hard drive -- or play the videos directly off the disc with a media player.

By the way, many Blu-ray players have built in media players that can play various types of media files directly from disc. AVI, MP4, MKV, etc.