What is the best way to produce video clips from a video surveillance system for long term archive or for evidentiary purposes?
A. Ideally, the video should be easy to produce and easy to be provided to who needs it. This usually means the video is in an open format or provided such that the player is integrated with the video. If video is produced to optical media (DVD or CD), then it should fit on that media and any specialized player should also be provided such that the person viewing it simply needs to insert the disk into a computer or DVD player and hit play. Digital media can be large. A typical 90 minute DVD that you watch a movie on can be 12 GB of data. Compression and resolution settings may have to be managed to find a trade off between image quality and image portability.
