What do you do with your projects?

IftiBashir

IftiBashir

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Once uploaded to YouTube, what do you do with your raw video and projects/renderings etc?

Do you archive them away somewhere?
Do you just delete them and only keep the final video output?

I move the project off of my scratch disk and keep all clips/events and projects/render files on an external storage drive, since I sometimes refer back to clips that I need to use in another video - I may be reviewing a new camera, for example, and refer back to a similar camera Ive reviewed in the past etc.
I also use annotations in the Outro to related videos, so use older clips for that as well.

Coming up to 2TB worth though!!

So, what do you do with old project files and recorded video??
 
Honestly I dont keep the raw files for any videos I make, I should do for some of them but I dont. I have a backup of all the YTtalkTV videos on disc and I think I will back them up to disc every 100 we do, any less than that can stay on the hard drive.
 
I never keep the raw recordings, when I get some more external storage I'll keep the finished projects.
 
I wouldn't mind getting rid of all my raw footage to be honest, but I never know when Im going to need to refer back to any of it for a new video.
Ive reviewed a dash-cam a good few months back, for example. Now the same company has sent me another dash-cam, which is the highest in the range - so now Im working on creating the new video but can still use footage from the previous review to show others in the range etc!
Hence I end up just keeping them all in my Final Cut Pro library - I don't keep the actual camera raw footage as such, I just keep all the footage thats been imported into previous projects with Final Cut so I can easily refer back to clips that I may need for newer videos.
Just takes tons of space - I have a Drobo 5D with 3x3TB disks in RAID5, and another 2 bays still spare yet, so space isn't really an issue, just wondered what others did and how they organised themselves......
 
I use an external hard for the final video i dont keep the parts from it i dont know i feel like it has no point
 
For my College projects I keep EVERYTHING, all on an external hard drive of course. Projects, Scratch discs, raw footage, preview files.. etc..

for gaming videos once I've saved the video I render it to the file I will actually edit so it goes from like 40GB to like 2GB.. then I just keep the 2GB after I've edited :)
 
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