Media storage help

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I tend to edit on my OnePlus 7 as Kinemaster tells me it’s the fastest processor I own … but in the week or so I have had my Air 2, I have generated 36GB of media (I have 70GB of Mini media) :open_mouth:

Where should I back it up?

Should I be paring the footage back to just keep the good stuff?

I have 200GB limit on my google drive, with over 60% of that currently free, but I’ll soon fill that if I just upload the lot.

I’d love to have a discussion here on best practices and the best way to catalog footage too. Cheers :grinning:

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Moved your post to an existing thread on the same topic.

Other ideas may be added.

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I have bought a ‘RAV’ filehub and used it to get everything off ‘cloud’ and onto a 2 terrabit hard drive. I can now plug the hard drive into my laptop or TV via the usb connection and view footage on my TV. Everything on the hard drive has its own header so can easily be found. Another plus side is I’ve freed up 50gb of cloud memory.
The file hub cost about £30.

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Chipping in late, but as an apple user myself I went usb-C / thunderbolt hub, with a fast 2TB drive editing.

Then when done export the movie and ruthlessly delete all that useless raw footage you’ll never view again!

Be ruthless! Keep only what’s good.

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Thats all my footage gone then !!! :grimacing: :grimacing: :rofl: :rofl:

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Did you get this up & running ? I am interested to know how it went and is it a difficult task to set up.

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I so want to do that!

What is your process for viewing then trimming/discarding good vs bad footage?

I have gotten into the habit of frequently stop/start recording so that I have shorter clips without having clips that last several minutes that I have maybe 10 seconds of good footage in.

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I’ve started using Mega NZ online storage. It’s free for a small GB account. They pride themselves on privacy and security. If you loose your ID or forget your password there is no way to retrieve your data.
When I shared a link of footage to my parents, they said it was slow to download. But I thought it uploaded 10 times faster than Google Drive.

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+1 for Mega.NZ - also use it to host GitHub - ping-spike/AutelEvo2Firmware: A repo containing all firmware binaries for the Autel Evo II drone

Kim Dotcom is slightly eccentric completely bonkers but he knows how to build shit :slight_smile:

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They’ve (Mega NZ) improved since they managed to lose everything of mine, then?
That was when they were quite new.

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So my top tips are line up your shot and film earlier than you think you need for the shot and run on longer than you think. Don’t stop or change direction, just nice long smooth shots!

Then you’ll have more footage to cut in the edit.

Personally I go over it, chopping my raw footage into nice little shots or chunks, then drop it onto the timeline, add cross fades and music then burn it to mp4 etc.

Delete the raw stuff that’s left. Unless you want to revisit or might reuse a clip again etc

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How are you chopping the raw footage?

What I’d like to do is to trim my clips into usable footage BEFORE dropping it into the timeline. Do you use a separate app?

Ideally, I do want to archive usable footage, just not ALL the footage.

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@premiump that question might be better posed in a thread of its own mate, just to keep this thread roughly on topic :blush:

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Yeah no problem :+1:

My OP was a bit of a catch-all and got moved to this thread. I just want my workflow in post to be efficient as possible and my archiving to match it.

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@silverfox682 I didn’t, but still hope to at some point, not flown much recently so the problem has sort of been on hold pending me finding more spare times to fly :thinking:

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Ive now got that many external storage HDD’s Im maybe thinking of finding some way to use these in a similar system so they are all in one place safe and easily accessible. I wonder if they will fit in some sort of file hub ? Time to do some proper research I reckon.

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Just seen this deal on Amazon that might interest some people …

Deal: SanDisk Extreme 1TB Portable NVMe SSD, USB-C, up to 1050MB/s Read and 1000MB/s Write Speed, Water and Dust-Resistant

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GTYFC37/

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I got one of these in the Black Friday sales , was a bit cheaper than this offer but so far seems excellent and I would highly recommend it

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Is it just me that does not trust any storage device as they after time fuffup, it’s nice going big but hells bells 1TB full of important stuff in a flash lost.:flushed::flushed::flushed::flushed::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

I rather get 10 X 100gb and always back up twice and with online storage that’s 3 X files are never lost.

I’ve lost things in the past as I did not backup in time and it’s only been 10gb maybe but I’ve cried as it’s lost forever.

Never lose my 80’s porn ever again :joy::joy::joy:

Backup small but double backup atleast.

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Or to the cloud