What do you do with your raw footage?

Yeah, I value quality in my work so I only and exclusively record in 1080p @ 30 FPS. Originally I wanted to do 60 FPS but at that rate the videos would just become way too big. And Youtube scales it down to 30 anyway. But even at 30 FPS, 1080p content fills up FAST.
 
Raw footage is deleted once I check out the final render for defects. Like others who do gaming videos, usually the only thing cut is complete garbage anyways.
 
mine is mainly music so I never really had a problem.
but I prefer to have a backup somewhere, you never know what lies ahead...
 
I delete any raw footage after a while, usually when my hard drive is almost full. I do see the point in keeping it permanently if you can afford it but if you dont have loads of hard drives and endless cash flow its best to just keep it for as long as you think is needed, perhaps deleting the stuff you dont think you could ever need again first to clear out space.
 
We back everything up on Cloud, smugmug, our server and our external hard drives.

For gameplay, we use ffmpeg with a binary script that reduces the size of the FRAPS raw file.
4GB down to about 40MB
Then we delete the FRAPS RAW and keep the smaller, copied file

The quality goes down a tiny, tiny bit, but you can't even really tell.
If you put the footage side by side in an editor and forgot which was which, you couldn't tell.[DOUBLEPOST=1351208728,1351208517][/DOUBLEPOST]
mattv2099 said:
So far keeping them. Have 1 TB on my new mac mini. Getting a second mac mini by xmas with another TB. I do 1 vid per week and they are only about 1-2 gb each.
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Uh...you do realize that you could get five 3TB externals for the price of ONE Mac Mini...and that doesn't even include the keyboard, mouse and monitor.

For the price of a FULL Mac Mini setup, you could literally buy SIX 3TB externals.

I understand having an additional workspace, but that shouldn't be a reason NOT to get externals....
 
epiem said:
We back everything up on Cloud, smugmug, our server and our external hard drives.

For gameplay, we use ffmpeg with a binary script that reduces the size of the FRAPS raw file.
4GB down to about 40MB
Then we delete the FRAPS RAW and keep the smaller, copied file

The quality goes down a tiny, tiny bit, but you can't even really tell.
If you put the footage side by side in an editor and forgot which was which, you couldn't tell.[DOUBLEPOST=1351208728,1351208517][/DOUBLEPOST]
Uh...you do realize that you could get five 3TB externals for the price of ONE Mac Mini...and that doesn't even include the keyboard, mouse and monitor.

For the price of a FULL Mac Mini setup, you could literally buy SIX 3TB externals.

I understand having an additional workspace, but that shouldn't be a reason NOT to get externals....
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Dude. I run 2 computers. I'm not buying an additional computer for the purpose of more HD space. I'm just replacing my oldest computer with one of the new mac mini's. Price is not a concern.
 
mattv2099 said:
Dude. I run 2 computers. I'm not buying an additional computer for the purpose of more HD space. I'm just replacing my oldest computer with one of the new mac mini's. Price is not a concern.
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Oh, it sounded like you were buying an additional computer just for space....

Disregard my msg...
 
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