List of 4K+ Masters for Digitally Shot Films

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Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Why can't the digital films be stored on multiple hard drives?

You need to watch this:

Originally Posted by Dragun

Even if you have multiple hard drives, good luck reading one of those in 20-30 years, or even 10. You can't just copy the data to drives, let them sit on a shelf untouched for years or decades, and open them later. One, the hard drives themselves may not physically work by then, and two, the hardware and software to read them may be hard to find. This is why the data has to be constantly migrated to a new platform every few years. With film, as long as the stock is stable and put into climate-controlled storage, it can be left with minimal maintenance retrieved years later.

Even movies shot and/or finished digitally should have YCM separation masters made.

Digital is no panacea to storage problems, and it has its own problems.

What's really scary is sometimes a hard drive refuses to let you pull data off of it. You can still read it or print text documents from it, but it won't let you copy or move the files.