Can't Vlog, Won't Vlog: A Response to johnreagannumber1

21stCenturyCat 'attempts' to respond to johnreagannumber1's "Compressing Your Life Away" video with a Vlog!? Perhaps I should just stick to what I know...

Background: In the original "Compressing Your Life Away" video John talked about (amongst other things) the frustrations he has with the vast amount of hard drive space taken up by raw video footage, and the wasted time he spends compressing the footage to save a bit of space.


Apologies John, this video fails to answer many of the points you raised in your video so just for you (I suspect very few other people will read it) a more thorough text response is below.

Unabridged answer

1. I have my YouTube settings set to default to always watch 'High Quality' videos when available
2. When I used to upload videos onto my PC 4GB in AVI. format would equal approximately 20 minutes of footage
3. When the raw footage has been edited I always export a high quality version of the finished video and then delete the raw footage.
4. The exported high quality version seems to have the same GB:Minute ratio
5. This means that editing the raw footage saves me very little hard drive space.
6. Unfortunately when editing I use about 95% of the footage filmed (excluding this video!) because when filming Cat & Funny videos we have only ever done 2 takes once. (This event was referenced the one time we did this, anyone know when?)
7. I have 3 external hard drives.
8. I bought the 3rd when I realised that although I had backed up videos on my other 2 external hard drives, they were in fact the only copies I had because I had deleted the originals on my PC to free up space.
9. My MAC came with a 500GB hard drive, after less than 2 months I am down to to 90GB!
10. On the MAC 2GB in .MOV equals 2 minutes of footage... hold on?! That can't be right! Thanks John, I think I realise now where my MAC hard drive space has gone (I'd never looked at this before now), the large file size is probably due to the fact I'm importing using my Hi-Def Camcorder 1440 x 1080!
11. Using the MAC I upload MPEG-4 files to Youtube at 640x480, video format H.264, 1350 KBS. I've given up trying to improve on this but still find some of my indoor videos are pixelated on YouTube. This video pre-upload was 81MB and my green t-shirt is pixelated (although this was filmed using the iMAC iSight so perhaps that is the reason).
11. If I'd listed everything I wanted to say like this in the 1st place perhaps this video would have been a proper response that actually responded to the issues raised in the original video! Hindsight is such a wonderful thing... ;0)
12. Surely nobody is still reading this...
13. Compressing videos doesn't take my life away but making them does! I got home from work at 7PM, started filming this at 8PM with it currently uploading while I write this at 12:10AM. I've just realised that I forgot to turn the TV on and have been sat in silence for 5 hours,
14. Damn I missed the football tonight making this, England vs USA.
15. On the bright side we kicked their ass! 2-0


Abridged answer:

1. You're not the only one that wants to keep raw files although I do not actually compress files to save space. But perhaps from what I've learnt tonight I should, I had not idea the MAC .MOV files were so large.

Cheers John, 2 response in 2 months, it must be your turn soon! ;0)

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[CharTres1717]

We get your point. I have a problem in that I could not get my format into anything YT would take. Uploaded a trail version of a formatting service. Now this footage has a big red flashing ad of this company on it. I have no idea how to remove it. Any suggestions on how to do this or is it lost.???

[21stCenturyCat]

hmm, well if it has been uploaded with the flashing ad then I'd say you are stuck with. I had thought YT was fairly flexible with the formats it accepted though so I'd have thought basic windows moviemaker would be good enough for editing/exporting footage

[BadAlbert]

60 effing gigs of footage??? Holy jebus!

[21stCenturyCat]

and that doesn't include the footage still on tape that has not yet been imported onto my MAC or PC - I could probably tape no new footage for the rest of the year and still post a couple of videos a week!

[NuclearActiveGuy]

lol greedo sucks balls hehe

[21stCenturyCat]

it's true he does

[21stCenturyCat]

yep it is astounding but I think the reason is that I bought a new cam recently and it's a hi-def one and it's the picture quality (which you lose on uploading to YT anyway) that is causing it to take up so much space.

With my old cam I'd get 20 mins from 4 GB

[BadAlbert]

That can't be right, 4 minutes equals 2 or 3 GB? How? My pc only has 60GB. 500 is tons. No idea how video footage is taking up so much space, never had that on any webcam or handycam. Not that I'm an expert but that is astounding.

[andymooseman]

I'm sorry mate, but i found that very funny.

A very entertaining vlog. It does prove though, that we all seem to have similar problems with HD space etc. I'm thinking of buying a second external HD myself :)

[Minniver]

ummm, I don't think this is the first series to wait in vain for it's entirety...case in point... bet you have more Vegas footage left.

[21stCenturyCat]

look, is this your way of saying you're fed up with waiting to hear the response to your 'Evening With' question? And all good things to those that wait... ffs!