BEST WAY TO RECORD SENTIMENTAL MOMENTS IN LIFE

[geek84]

Good Morning Folks

I made some recordings of my children when they were babies - they are now in their 20s.

The recordings were made on camcorder tapes and I would like to keep those memories for ever.

Can you kindly suggest any storage media that I can use for this?


Thank You

[anonymous-user]

Lots of towns still have small AV specialists who transfer Camcorder footage to DVD, digital etc or try online, first Google result is https://www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk

[Radec]

Get it transferred to a hard drive from the camcorder then keep a usb backup and put them on cloud storage

[Cloudy147]

Radec said:

Get it transferred to a hard drive from the camcorder then keep a usb backup and put them on cloud storage

I would recommend this as well. No storage media lasts forever, so you should keep a few different types and refresh every 5 years.

[Mr Pointy]

For ever? Probably an LTO tape of some form. For practical purposes avoid writeable discs & look at a combination of HDDs & SSDs stored in a firesafe.

[geek84]

Many thanks for your responses, folks

[Spare tyre]

Upload to numerous places, YouTube, Google photos etc

[mattyn1]

Absolutely this. We did it when my mother passed, we found the reels of old video and got them on DVD, and uploaded to YT. Photos and slides scanned into GP, which allowed the to be shared with the family.

They hardly ever get look at mind!

[Timothy Bucktu]

DVD is a definite no no. They slowly degrade, some more than others. I guess if you buy a really good make you should get 20 years out of them? But I have some that are 10 years old and I had a couple that I struggled to transfer. Plus, it's a dead format and soon the hardware will fail.
Spinny HDD, plus SSD backup, plus USB backup of the backup, plus cloud that more than one person knows how to access. Plus, get your photos 'developed', especially the cherished family pics. They should last a good few years and they're nice to sift through.