How Much Of Your Raw Footage Do You Keep? How Do You Organize It?

Ramblin'

Ramblin'

Ramblin'Rider on YT
After only 10 videos (only 1 on my Ramblin'Rider YT so far) my computer is starting to get alot of raw footage backed up!

For some reason gopro edit software also saves each cut down clip you convert to edit.. So I have started saving clips to folders like "Bad Drivers" "Fails" "Overtakes" etc and now I am thinking about deleting the full raw footage files to make space. Do y'all save choice clips from your raw footage also and then delete the rest?

How do you organize and manage everything?

Thanks for the help!
 
So far I keep everything that I think is useful. Although all of my footage is dumped on a 1TB external drive. My footage is just organized by date, and I use FCPX so I "favorite" the footage I think I can use, and trash the rest.
 
Ramblin' said:
After only 10 videos (only 1 on my Ramblin'Rider YT so far) my computer is starting to get alot of raw footage backed up!

For some reason gopro edit software also saves each cut down clip you convert to edit.. So I have started saving clips to folders like "Bad Drivers" "Fails" "Overtakes" etc and now I am thinking about deleting the full raw footage files to make space. Do y'all save choice clips from your raw footage also and then delete the rest?

How do you organize and manage everything?

Thanks for the help!
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I delete most of it once its on youtube
 
Is it easy to export a clip from a youtube video you have posted or only if you still have is the mp4 file saved? :)

thanks for all the help!
 
SwissMotard said:
It's easy to re-download from YouTube but the quality is terrible.
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So I will start cliping out footage I may want to save other than the final cut mp4 video and save those then delete the raw footage after I have a cut video. I figure between the final cut yt videos in 1080 mp4 version and the clips of what i might want to keep I will have plenty of footage for future mash-ups like "250 cc over takes" and "noob fail" video compilations etc in the future without taking up too much space on the hard drive

Perhaps look into filling an external but I feel like when i do that i rarely go back and take footage from a 1 hour whole ride clip and then it will be a pain to purge when it gets full..

I am not very organized to begin with ahah
 
depends, for the daily obs i keep the raw's only for a few weeks after uploading and then delete everything except the final rendering.

For special's and others i keep all raw's on separate 4T drive which is almost full LOL
 
I keep everything at first, then dump what's no good either 'cos I know it or after reviewing. I would thoroughly recommend keeping all your raw footage on external drives, keeping it on the internal drive will really slow down the computers performance.
 
I have loads of external drives that I use for backups (they are cheap now a days) and I copy all my data onto there in dated folders. But I do erase segments that are not used in any posting for youtube just to save space.

This enables me to re-encode at a later date if need be.
 
Anything I don't use for a video gets thrown out. I do keep original sources of anything I actually use. All my motovlogs that I'm working on end up in their own folders on my Solid State Drive. Once it's uploaded to YouTube, I move it to a 1TB external drive. Depending upon content and sometimes luck, I may actually use 10 minutes for about 2 hrs worth of video and then chop it down to around 5 minutes when I trim off nonessential parts. Kind of like cutting a steak out of a cow and then trimming the fat off the steak. Sometimes, it's not good enough to be a steak so my viewers get a hamburger. I'm hungry.
 
CaptainCranky said:
I keep everything at first, then dump what's no good either 'cos I know it or after reviewing. I would thoroughly recommend keeping all your raw footage on external drives, keeping it on the internal drive will really slow down the computers performance.
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Er... computers don't work like that!

I have the following setup:

1TB SSD for OS and applications
2x 512GB SSD in RAID 0 for games and currently edited footage
4TB internal for interim storage
16TB NAS

No matter how full my non-OS internal drives are, I get absolutely zero performance loss. I only suffer performance loss if my OS drive only has a few GB left, anything up to that has zero impact.
 
SwissMotard said:
Er... computers don't work like that!

I have the following setup:

1TB SSD for OS and applications
2x 512GB SSD in RAID 0 for games and currently edited footage
4TB internal for interim storage
16TB NAS

No matter how full my non-OS internal drives are, I get absolutely zero performance loss. I only suffer performance loss if my OS drive only has a few GB left, anything up to that has zero impact.
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Damn. That's one sweet set up. I've only got a 128GB SSD for OS. 500GB HDD for footage and 2TB HDD for games. :(
 
At the moment I'm keeping everything on a 2tb drive. Because I basically only record once a week and only for a hour or so I'll continue that for now.

Have thought about just burning to DVD in-case I decide I need something later on.
 
If your raw footage is too huge, i.e. you have 1 hour of raw footage from the ride but have maybe 5 minutes of interesting footage you would like to save/use for later, why not just edit the raw footage, crop out the interesting bits and render it as a new clip, then save/store to your library. Will definitely clear up a lot of space.

I do have some bits and clips I keep to be compiled into a random compilation once a while, other than that, all processed clips are discarded after edit and upload complete.
 
SwissMotard said:
Er... computers don't work like that!

I have the following setup:

1TB SSD for OS and applications
2x 512GB SSD in RAID 0 for games and currently edited footage
4TB internal for interim storage
16TB NAS

No matter how full my non-OS internal drives are, I get absolutely zero performance loss. I only suffer performance loss if my OS drive only has a few GB left, anything up to that has zero impact.
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Yeah i know - but I think a few times I have got my macbook over half full and the performance of my video editor is definitely not good - when I move the files off and re-boot it gets better, works for me but is probably not for the reasons I think it is :)
 
CaptainCranky said:
Yeah i know - but I think a few times I have got my macbook over half full and the performance of my video editor is definitely not good - when I move the files off and re-boot it gets better, works for me but is probably not for the reasons I think it is :)
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I have a dedicated 1TB external HDD just for videos/editing stuff. The internal drive itself is void of any such files. Rendering times and such are pretty OK, I have no deadlines anyway.
 
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