[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. On the drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. I assure you that will be taken up rather quickly though. Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of the original media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
I've yet to work out the best solution to this. When you're downloading video, hard drive space fills up *quick*! Someday (soon), we'll each have inexpensive terabyte + drives, andstorage may not seem much of a problem. But today, most folks can most likely afford anything from 40GB on up to 400GB, more or less (and depending on your financial circumstances). And I can tell you from experience, 40 gigs fills up a laptop quick!!! Harold On 4/13/06, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, itdownloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up.As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media.They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. Onthe drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. Iassure you that will be taken up rather quickly though.Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of theoriginal media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. Davidhttp://www.davidhowellstudios.com--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group videoblogging on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
Same here, viewing in the browser is my preferred experience. I like seeing the video in the context of peeps sites and the text of the entry. And as Andreas stated, when the browser closed the cache is cleared and disk space is recovered. I can't see any reason why one would want to archive copies of other peeps videos, unless of course you are watching them in places you don't have internet access or you're editing a remix. If you're keeping tons of OPV on your disk, you should really ask yourself is you want to. It's like nutters people who save old newspapers, and that's really weird. -- cheers r Deconstructing the status quo, collaboratively my vlog: http://r.24x7.com get great hosting: http://foo.24x7.com On Apr 13, 2006, at 6:26 PM, David Howell wrote: I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. On the drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. I assure you that will be taken up rather quickly though. Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of the original media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
You know Fireant lets you control how much drive space it uses. I have mine set to one gig. I currently have one 250 gig firewire drive which is about 80% full. A 200 gig USB 2.0 drive that is 50% full, a 160 gig internal SATA drive that is 80% full and network (gigabit ethernet) 300 gig drive which is actually a secondary drive in my sons G4 that I use for back up. I tend to keep the raw files for a project around for a few months and then eventually delete the video for them keeping the FCP project files and an uncompressed Quicktime copy of the completed project on a data DVD. I have all my raw video on tape and can go back and recapture if I decide I want to re-edit a project (which I've never done). Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. On the drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. I assure you that will be taken up rather quickly though. Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of the original media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup solitude@ wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital digitalbuddha@ wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
I like to use Fireant which downloads videos. I like it because playback is quicker when playing from my local drive. Also Fireant has a feature that allows you to set a maximum amount of disk space that you want the downloaded media to take up (once the max is reached it starts to delete the oldest files even if I haven't watched them.) AND I have it set to automatically delete files after I watch them. Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, robert a/k/a r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here, viewing in the browser is my preferred experience. I like seeing the video in the context of peeps sites and the text of the entry. And as Andreas stated, when the browser closed the cache is cleared and disk space is recovered. I can't see any reason why one would want to archive copies of other peeps videos, unless of course you are watching them in places you don't have internet access or you're editing a remix. If you're keeping tons of OPV on your disk, you should really ask yourself is you want to. It's like nutters people who save old newspapers, and that's really weird. -- cheers r Deconstructing the status quo, collaboratively my vlog: http://r.24x7.com get great hosting: http://foo.24x7.com On Apr 13, 2006, at 6:26 PM, David Howell wrote: I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. On the drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. I assure you that will be taken up rather quickly though. Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of the original media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup solitude@ wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital digitalbuddha@ wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hard drives local storage question
Over a 1TB of logged and captured footage since I started in July of 2005. About 300 GB of videos/mine/and the videobloggin communities..I have packed away... And a bunch of rendered stuff that FCP pumps out... I need to do some house cleaning... As for hardware...a few 250GB USB 2.0 drives (they were on sale at Best Denki for 90bucks!!), three Maxtor firewire drives, and some old 60GB drives I ripped out of old machines...it is a mess... nathan miller www.bicycle-sidewalk.com --- Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know Fireant lets you control how much drive space it uses. I have mine set to one gig. I currently have one 250 gig firewire drive which is about 80% full. A 200 gig USB 2.0 drive that is 50% full, a 160 gig internal SATA drive that is 80% full and network (gigabit ethernet) 300 gig drive which is actually a secondary drive in my sons G4 that I use for back up. I tend to keep the raw files for a project around for a few months and then eventually delete the video for them keeping the FCP project files and an uncompressed Quicktime copy of the completed project on a data DVD. I have all my raw video on tape and can go back and recapture if I decide I want to re-edit a project (which I've never done). Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using Fireant but stopped because the last time I used it, it downloaded the videos and I dont want my drive space to be taken up. As a result, I'm just using my browser too to watch videos now. I have a couple larger external firewire drives that hold my media. They are rather full right now. Time to get yet another drive soon. On the drive that I am using for current media with which I am going to edit or thinking about editing, I have 63 gigs free out of 200. I assure you that will be taken up rather quickly though. Since I never re-record over my tapes, I always have a copy of the original media on the shelves if a drive ever fails. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Haugstrup solitude@ wrote: On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Digital digitalbuddha@ wrote: I really felt the storage crunch after Videoblogging week. Downloading and viewing more videos and ramping up my own video production means I've been chewing through alot of hard drive space. My general questions to everyone are: how much hard drive space do all of your videos take up? Do you store off site, buy external drives, tapes, something else? Do you just purge them after awhile? (I find that I can't part with anything..such a pack rat!) I almost never download videos. I watch them in the webbrowser so whenever my browser's cache gets cleaned/refreshed then the videos delete themselves. Works great. :o) -- Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
