Video Storage

ride512

ride512

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How are you guys storing your video files. Do you keep the original files after you edit the video? I'm running out of storage space and thinking that there probably is no real reason to keep the full files from the camera after I've edited the video.
 
I keep everything I've ever shot :)
I like having it as a record, it's fun to go back through sometimes and see what was going on in my life at that time.
Every now and then I find a little nugget of gold that I somehow overlooked and I'll put it in a new video.
At this point footage is taking up over 1tb, but storage is cheap these days so I'm not particularly worried haha :D
 
hungabustavlogs said:
I keep everything I've ever shot :)
I like having it as a record, it's fun to go back through sometimes and see what was going on in my life at that time.
Every now and then I find a little nugget of gold that I somehow overlooked and I'll put it in a new video.
At this point footage is taking up over 1tb, but storage is cheap these days so I'm not particularly worried haha :D
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lol nice! I should clarify that I am shooting 2 cameras 2 hours a day 4-6 days a week so 2TB would last me about 1.5 - 2 months.
 
I recently deleted all of 2014's footage, and now bin a day's footage from general if nothing happened. I had a terabyte of stuff. I keep the project libraries in FCPX for a couple of months after publishing in case I've made a mistake I didn't notice but everything will now get binned after 3 months depending on how full my external is.
 
I've got a 3TB storage drive for my videos. I keep all my rendered stuff which I've put up on youtube. But I don't keep the raw footage once I've finished editing, apart for my test rides, I keep them for some reason.
 
I usually delete everything once the video is on Youtube for a month, in case I get copyrighted things happening because of music or anything else.
 
I save a lot of footage but not all, external drives. I'd prefer to have everything on a raid as well but i'll roll my dice for now.
 
I'm saving mine to an external drive. Once that's full I'll begin deleting the earlier stuff.
 
My GoPro clocks up 11GB a day compared to my Drift at 8GB.

I've started deleting old footage but it sits around 1TB.
 
I have a couple of those network attached storage (NAS) devices -- One is 6TB and the other is 2TB. The 6TB pretty much contains most of my digital life. I use the 2TB one for daily work, current projects and stuff that I need to access on a regular basis. Everything else gets archived to the 6TB, I rarely delete anything...
 
I keep the original files that have been used, so if I shoot 4 hrs = 3 files but only uses one of the files in a video I keep that and junk the rest.
Storage is all on external USB3 HD think it's 6TB off the top of my head.
 
ride512 said:
How are you guys storing your video files. Do you keep the original files after you edit the video? I'm running out of storage space and thinking that there probably is no real reason to keep the full files from the camera after I've edited the video.
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I bought a 1TB external hard drive off Amazon for $55. I store all my archived video footage on that, otherwise my computer would have 0 memory available.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N2S6ZUQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01
 
I have all the RAW unedited footage on a 12TB NAS, which I then delete one the video has been published on YouTube.

I keep the full quality export though in case someone creates an online video service without crap quality in the future.
 
Lurch said:
Nudge another 6TB drive in? :)
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lol - if I wasn't unemployed right now...
I am going back and deleting stuff though - I've made notes on everything on reviewing and put an "x" beside files I didn't see anything of value in - so I can go back and delete stuff, leaving everything only for the last few months in case something comes up.
One thing that's come up a few times is a sub saying "hey I saw you on the road" - so it's nice to look back over that footage and get a screen grab of them and post it in response :)
 
I have a plan to regularly purge my footage as I mentioned. What will happen is I'll stockpile it until the drive gets full and then I'll delete a chunk of the oldest stuff and keep doing that :)

Trouble is, now I'm filming at 60fps, it's double the space per hour on the road! Wasn't too bad when I was filming at 30fps :)
 
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