What do you do with your raw footage?

[dandoolittle]

I'm pretty new to this stuff but I don't see a point of keeping my daily travels and footage but do you guys?


I only keep my youtube vids and the adobe project files

 

[ariderslife]

I have the the majority of my daily rides for the last 18 months, so far its around 600GB,

ride for a average of total 90mins+ a day. 5 working days a week + a few hours atleast on the weekend....

So it adds up

 

[dandoolittle]

I have the the majority of my daily rides for the last 18 months, so far its around 600GB,

ride for a average of total 90mins+ a day. 5 working days a week + a few hours atleast on the weekend....

So it adds up

What do you do with it though? Just save it to watch?

 

[YourPalsChrisAndAl]

Pete you don't record in 1080 do you?

The clips we have take up so much room lol

 

[Bikermole]

I used to keep it. Then I made the mistake of deleting 200gb of footage by accident. Oops.

I keep meaning to buy an external hard disk to put bike footage on.

 

[senthx]

what I haven't put on youtube;

local rides, delete
trips away, keep

 

[Romans5.8]

If nothing interesting happens I delete it. I run my camera most of the time I ride simply in case something interesting happens. I also save clips of idiot drivers in hopes of making a compilation soon.

I never delete RAW footage of any value, like vlogs, or interesting clips. It all goes on to my NAS which also gets backed up to the cloud.

 

[CurlyBlakey]

If it's not worth keeping I bin it, I keep the odd bit every now and then just for posterity

 

[dandoolittle]

I used to keep it. Then I made the mistake of deleting 200gb of footage by accident. Oops.

I keep meaning to buy an external hard disk to put bike footage on.

I've just brought a Samsung 1tb for saving but now I'm like, why keep everything

Easy to fill up a drive with daily rides and 1080

 

[Trinith]

I record every second of every ride, and I typically delete the footage right after the ride. If something notable happened, like something worthy of being in a video, or something that I may want for legal reasons, then I'll keep it. Every few months I'll delete my originals that I cut videos from. I can't see the point behind keeping footage of me riding to work for more than a few weeks, especially if it was an uneventful ride.

 

[ToastToGo]

I delete my raw footage when I go out for the sake of motovlogging, and just keep the rendered video. If it's footage from a road trip or maybe group ride or something more interesting, I will keep the raw footage just in case I like to go back and relive the experience.

I find no reason to keep random footage of me just riding around town...it's just a waste of storage space.

 

[Meifesto]

What is worth saving i save.
All the other stuff i delete.
I ride atleast 6 out 7 days in a week and film everything, so that is quiet alot of material.

I also decided to use the saved material once in a while, wich gives something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMUSh2vSpcM

 

[lewis94iify]

I record every journey on my bike wherever I go whatever the weather. I keep interesting clips/vlogs until I've rendered and uploaded them. I used to keep the raw files with the rendered version but quickly ran out of space and I don't have an external drive atm.

 

[Chris033081]

I have just about every video clip I have ever taken. I delete the obviously useless ones...ones that accidentally record for a few seconds when I am trying to turn the camera off or something like that. All my footage stays on my computer in one folder/subfolders until rendered and then go to an archiving folder. If my videos start to take up too much space on the HDD I will move them to an external or NAS. An old computer with extra HDD space and externals make for a great NAS project.

 

[NessedUpProductions]

External drives are the way to go, can back up important stuff as well as increasing storage for media. Then it's all about sorting and deleting videos where your angle is bad or not worth every integrating into a project.


Western Digital - 1 TB of space for $130 US http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...T&cid=262075&lid=4742361&acd=1230980794501410

 

[DodgeRider26]

I just want y'all to know that everytime you delete your raw footage, a baby motorcycle is born!

 

[13DollarRefill]

i generally delete it if i'm not using it/nothing exciting happens, but with said I have over 7TB of storage at my disposal.

 

[thunderous71]

I keep it all too, but when I do a camera run I make a word file after with time stamps and descriptions of what went on in that time stamp on the video. So it becomes a sorta archive of footage to use.

But yea.... takes up lots of space but hard drives are cheap