What do you do with old footage?

After uploading it I watch it... well skim through it to make sure it's working, and uploaded properly once I'm happy with what I see I delete it. Makes more sense to get rid of then let it clutter up HDD space. Like having old clothing in your room or stack of papers ... or trash.
 
I put it on an external. but for a quick fix for HDD space, try deleting your render files if you are using Final Cut Pro. It saved me about 50 GB.
 
For my gaming footage I just delete it because there's just too much. But for my main channel I put all my finished videos on google drive (100 GB plan) and all the raw footage on Amazon Glacier (costs $0.01 per Gigabyte per month). Glacier was basically made for archiving data that you will rarely need to access. Hard drives are actually not good for archival storage and will only last like 5 years even if they're just sitting on a shelf.

If you're willing to invest a lot of money AND you have a ton of data to backup, you want to research something called LTO-5 tapes (yes, tapes). They're the cheapest form of storage, at about $50 per 1.5 TB, but the drives are really expensive. They have an archival shelf life of 15-30 years.
 
I delete most of it, but some are just too funny to delete. I'll probably make a blooper montage someday. But as for the stuff I used in the actual video, I would delete that since I can just redownload it from youtube again later.
 
So I've been thinking about storage solutions as well, and I have finally come up with a good solution for me. I hope it helps you!

Since the events and projects accumulate in my FCPX, it'll get very laggy. So, I got a 3TB LaCie Porsche Design External Desktop Hard Drive and Event Manager X. On FCPX, I move all unused events and projects to the hard drive. Then, I use Event Manager X to move all unused events/projects into an alternate folder titled "unused event" or "unused project". These don't load when FCPX loads.

For the finalized video files that are eventually uploaded to youtube: Once they are uploaded, I delete them because I can just recreate the video with the project files I have stored.

Also, to reclaim storage space, I delete all render files for both projects and events, which can be done directly in FCPX.

If you don't use FCPX, then the details will be slightly different.
 
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