Camera Archive vs Folder Based

Want to copy Hi 8 and Mini DV tapes to hard drive. Have put some footage into Camera Archive and it seems a simple solution, but Camera Archive cannot be read by other applications. And I haven't found a way to move it out of camera archive.

Any recommendations how to recover this source data if Apple comes out with something like Final Cut Y and it won't work with those archives created with Final Cut X? Or if I want to switch to Premiere Pro?

And do some of you just use a folder based system created manually, for this reason?

Thanks, Phil

 

Thanks for your reply. Yes, FCP X.

I wondered because Larry Jordan, the online FCP guru, said only FCP X ( a 2012 post, I think referring to ver. 10.1.2) said he didn't use Camera Archive since no other program would read the files, and recommended doing this manually. I wonder if it changed in ver 10.1.4, what I have.

I just didn't want to put all my proverbial eggs in the Camera Archive basket and then try to access them 10 or 20 years from now and find that I couldn't open the files.

 

Thanks for the input. I will assume that Larry Jordan either was referring to an earlier version of FCP or did not know that Finder will read these files.

Since Finder will select these files just fine, then it also appears FCP's "Camera Archive" (my version is 10.1.4) offers no advantage to using a manually-created folder structure. The only difference I see is in the user interface look after revealing the files.