Best method of archiving photos onto a blurray or dvd

[garjobo]

Hello Chaps, looking for a little advice as per the norm hopefully you'll be as kind as always and impart your little wisdom..

I have a few thousand photos which I am 'trying' to organise into folders on my PC, I want to ensure that I don't lose any should an SD card packup so to speak.

SO - using VIDEOSTUDIO X3 - would this be the best package to basically bring in a couple of thousand photos and then burn them onto a blu-ray and also a dvd disc. I dont care about the order - more a case of archiving them...so ideally best quality possible hence the blurray.

Ive head of TOAST? and Nero? ..But ASSUMING videostudio will be ok to do it as well? or not? I mean..HOW do i bring into videstudio 2000 photos..copy and paste? insert a load at a time?

Thought and advice welcome...in a nutshell...WHATS the best method to copy a load of photos onto a bluray and dvd for archiving?

AND, quick 2nd question..Am I losing any quality continually copy and pasting an image from one folder into another ( trying to organise into dates / time periods ). I mean...IS THERE A BETTER METHOD? Essentially what I am doing is...inserting an SD card...copy the contents into a folder ( about 500 photos at a time )..then individually / or small groups of photos copying them from one folder and placing into another folder marked eg, ' New Home 2011 '.

APPREICATE any replies and advice. THANKS

 

[rvwebdesign]

Videostudio is more for editing and not really the greatest for photo management. I would suggest ACDSEE for photo management. I've been using them for close to 10 years and it works perfectly for organization and archiving.

As for your question on if you are loosing quality when you copy and past an image. It depends on the format of the image. In theory you shouldn't loose any image quality when you copy and paste your image. If you open and re-save your image 20 times using photoshop, you can start to loose image quality if it is a jpg or jpeg... but it's very very minimal. Photoshop extensions .psd are lossless when saving.

So, if your camera records your images as a jpg (which is pretty typical), I would recommend copying the images to your computer and making a dvd of them at that time. ACDSEE has a feature where you can rename the images as you save them onto your computer so that they match a naming convention that you choose (like - My_Images_001, My_Images_002 etc)... that way, when you go to find the images on the DVD's later, you can easily find them. So when you burn the DVD's, you can write on the DVD's the number of the images that are on it (like - My_Images_001, My_Images_002 etc) - This will make a pretty easy system once you get it down.

Because burning DVD's are really cheap to purchase and they hold 4.7GB, I would recommend burning those instead of blue ray... just a though.