Keeping Old Videos

wcrb15

wcrb15

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First of all sorry if this is in the wrong section. Mods feel free to move.

I recently ran into an issue where whilst recording (using FRAPS to capture the game) we ran out of hard drive space. I had been lazy and kept all of the old source files (pre MP4 encoding via Premiere) and the post production (if you can call it that lol) MP4 videos on that same hard drive and we filled up the drive. I moved all of that to my external but it is slowly filling up too. So my question is what is your policy for keeping old source files and post production videos after they have been uploaded to YouTube. Do you hang onto that stuff or get rid of it? If you keep it do you have any way to compress those old folders on your computer. Just interested in hearing other people's methods and ideas.
 
My opinion is i think theres no need to hold on to the old video files unless its like a music video or some film montage you know something big like that other than that i just delete mine cuz i get my hard drives packed with other stuff and i seriously need a new external one i wanna go for 2T hdd lol
 
I keep all of the final renders but dump the raw data. The rendered files are always superior quality to YouTube encoding, and I like having a true portfolio of my work.
 
I guess the reason I was holding on to stuff was in case something got content ID'd and I needed to go back and change something. That's probably not something I need to worry about. It's nice to know that you guys don't hold on to the source files. I was headed that direction and this kind of helps to confirm that decision. I have a 600GB internal drive that I record directly to and then I have a 2.5TB external drive that I use for backups. It fills up quicker than you'd imagine lol.
 
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