Do any of you save your RAW footage?

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:26 pm

Everybody has different ways of editing....some work off .avs files while others (like myself) make .avi clips and work with that. I've got a stack of CDs I've burned with all that source material from my first 6 videos and I'm just wondering if I really should save them.

I mean, it's not like I am going to recreate those videos anytime in the future and they were captured using (lower quality) MMJPEG codec. Once the video is done and circulating - that's pretty much it, I think.

So I'm just curious what everyone else does.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:33 pm

I just save the final huffy.

[lmt]_lucas · Post by **[lmt]_lucas** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:35 pm

I delete all the source a while after a video is downloadable.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:35 pm

I don't. I regret it sometimes. In fact, I even end up losing my exported Huffys or hi-end MPEG-2's to stupid accidents (damn Delete button).

When I learn something new editing-wise, I do wish I could go back and fix something I could have made better with a new discovery - but, still, once I'm done with a video, I generally feel that I'm really done with it. I find that once I finished editing a video, coming back to it at a later time is almost impossible, because I'm not in the same mood/mind state/whatever. I tried, it only screws up good-but-not-perfect videos.

So, I don't keep it, and despite occasional second thoughts, I don't think it's neccesarily a bad thing. Saves me storage space, at the very least

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:56 pm

I keep the project files, any stills or AVIs that I used (I normally edit with scripts, not clips), and my source audio. Also a YUY2 HuffYUV of the finished project, though sometimes I have to keep two, and a script to serve it so I don't have to remember what filters and what settings I used before.

Since most contests have different rules regarding stuff like how much blank leader they want before and after each video, I don't bother keeping MPEG-2s usually.

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:05 pm

source i usually save as DV and burn to a dvd-r, so if i ever need footage from the same series, i do needa re rip the dvds

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:30 pm

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that I perpetually keep the NGE VOBs on my hard drive, since I borrowed the DVDs from a friend last fall and he doesn't go to The College anymore.

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:50 pm

Scintilla wrote:Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that I perpetually keep the NGE VOBs on my hard drive, since I borrowed the DVDs from a friend last fall and he doesn't go to The College anymore.

This would explain the uber sextastic eva videos.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:06 pm

Castor Troy wrote:I just save the final huffy.

That'd be me also.

Sure, it doesn't give the greatest versatility if you want to re-edit later, but it does fine for me. On the occasons that I've gone back to tweak my videos, I just rip the footage over again and apply it to whichever area of the vid I've decided to work on. Not too much hassle (not enough that I'd shell out for more blank DVDs to store the VOBs, anyway).

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:22 pm

I have a folder for each of my AMV which contains:
-Huffy Export
-Video Distribution Export
-Project File
-Auto-saved Project files
-Any Pre-made AVIs
-Used WAV file (music)
-Used Still Images and PSDs
-A text file containing the used music's lyrics
-A text file basically explaining general comments over the AMV and dates, etc.

I like to keep everything for memory and because I can check out something later on if I wanted to.

I delete the source footage due to lack of hard drive space.

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that I perpetually keep the NGE VOBs on my hard drive, since I borrowed the DVDs from a friend last fall and he doesn't go to The College anymore. Smile

I admire you. Isnt that like 30-40 gigs of VOB space right there? I need a bigger hardrive so I can do that too...