What do you do with yours?

[ozmodion]

Hi all,

I have been running my channel now for 5 and have over 160 videos uploaded. The issue im having is after I upload what shall I do with the video left over on my hard drive?

What do you do?

Do I keep them on a separate hard drive or do I delete them? As you can imagine over 160 videos each being about 1 to 3 GB each, that's a lot of hard drive space. I feel I can't delete them as I spent time creating them, but why do I need them, surely they are not going to get lost when they are uploaded right?

Anyway, what do you do with yours after you have uploaded them?

 

[GLP Matty]

I just delete them. You can redownload them as an MP4 on the video manager tab of youtube. In case you need it again later.

 

[ozmodion]

I just delete them. You can redownload them as an MP4 on the video manager tab of youtube. In case you need it again later.

and is the quality just as good when you re-download them?

 

[GLP Matty]

and is the quality just as good when you re-download them?

I believe so. At least 1080p wise. I dunno about 4K videos.

 

[Enmoshin]

I have pretty big hard drives, but once I finish them, I just compress/zip the files.

 

[ozmodion]

I have pretty big hard drives, but once I finish them, I just compress/zip the files.

oh that might be a good idea.

The only thing that might put me off doing anything with them at the mo is when i do montage videos and the such, it will be easier to use them instead of having to unzip or download them. I have plenty of space left at the mo and hard drives are pretty cheap anyway.

 

[TechNoboOrig]

Keep the newest video from each playlist you upload to, so maybe: Gameplays and How-To's
so that you can use them in call-to-actions in the end of your future videos, when you make a new one, replace the older one with the newer one and delete the old one.

 

[TwilightPrinze]

oh that might be a good idea.

The only thing that might put me off doing anything with them at the mo is when i do montage videos and the such, it will be easier to use them instead of having to unzip or download them. I have plenty of space left at the mo and hard drives are pretty cheap anyway.

I think what is meant is after you uploaded it and want to save the back-up then compress and Zip as it takes the least space.

 

[LtGeneralStore]

I have an external harddrive for all of my videos that I upload. I do Let's Plays so I keep all the videos until the LP is over then I delete the videos.

 

[Oblivifrek]

I do Keep the last 5 videos just in case but I do delete mine when not needed.

 

[LeGenDaryPuLse]

I would just delete them and you can redownload it with a mp4 downloader.

 

[Prology]

I delete my videos of my pc after I have used them

 

[Chronamut]

this is NOT where I expected this topic to go from the thread title.. lol

 

[LustraGaming]

I just keep them until I run out of space , I don't have that many videos yet though.

 

[Hail Kira]

I keep all my videos in my hard drive cause i like to be able to reuse the footage for trailers or compilations...

But ill probably lose then one day eventually anyways dye to hard drive failure

 

[Chris]

I usually just delete them, but right now I am saving them till finished my series.

 

[Kratos Aurion]

I delete them all after about a week or two. Sometimes 3 weeks if I am not in pressing need of space.

 

[Koala_Steamed]

I'd say keep them if possible but if you have a lot of videos you could probably delete them and just keep some of the special/favorite ones. You never know when you might want to upload videos to some new platform the comes out or whatever.

 

[iTsEazi00]

Hi all,

I have been running my channel now for 5 and have over 160 videos uploaded. The issue im having is after I upload what shall I do with the video left over on my hard drive?

What do you do?

Do I keep them on a separate hard drive or do I delete them? As you can imagine over 160 videos each being about 1 to 3 GB each, that's a lot of hard drive space. I feel I can't delete them as I spent time creating them, but why do I need them, surely they are not going to get lost when they are uploaded right?

Anyway, what do you do with yours after you have uploaded them?

I delete them after a day or two on YT, no reason to save them because you can re-download them as a MP4 file from your channel

 

[Awsomus1]

Hi all,

I have been running my channel now for 5 and have over 160 videos uploaded. The issue im having is after I upload what shall I do with the video left over on my hard drive?

What do you do?

Do I keep them on a separate hard drive or do I delete them? As you can imagine over 160 videos each being about 1 to 3 GB each, that's a lot of hard drive space. I feel I can't delete them as I spent time creating them, but why do I need them, surely they are not going to get lost when they are uploaded right?

Anyway, what do you do with yours after you have uploaded them?

Not sure if anyone mentioned this but you can get a program called "handbreak" that compresses the video files.