Tell me more ×  This question is to share my experience as well
as ask for suggestions for better methods.  Along with 2
friends, I completed the making of a short documentary film in
2006. Clip is at:  The film was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
on Windows XP. Here's a screenshot:  enter image description
here (Click to zoom in)  Note this is not intended to be a plug,
we've moved on from this initial learning curve project!  The
film is in 4:3 standard definition 720x576 PAL format.  As well
as retaining the final 30minute film, I wanted to keep all
original files that assembled together to make the film.  The
footage was 83.5Gb  So I archived them to over 20 4.7Gb DVD
recordables in the original .avi format (i.e. data DVD-ROM
format, NOT DVD-Video Mpeg2)  Some .avi DV video files were
larger than 4.7Gb so I used 7-zip to split them ( here is a
guide as to how to do that: )  To recombine them, a dos shell
command like this would do that: copy /b file.avi.* file.avi
would do the job, where .* is a wild car