Am I the only one annoyed at the size of new clips?

[cletus]

Just when I had bought a 6 TB hard drive in January of 2020 and thought well I'll never fill that up, along comes newer producers and some older and start selling 2-3 gb clips with no option for clips that are like 800 mb. Am I the only one annoyed by this? It's especially annoying seeing as I back up my favorite clips to flash drives that I take with me when I leave the house, but the max size of those is way less than 6 TB, which is making it either I need a bigger flash drive ( I already have 3 0.5 TB ones), more of them, or just not backing up these clips and if my computer becomes damaged somehow I'm out those clips forever.

Unless I'm the only one is it too much to ask these producers to either knock it off or offer smaller options?

 

[sman9000]

It is an issue, but at the same time, it is understandable that clip sizes have grown due to enhanced/higher quality.

 

[hefophre]

This is the first time I have ever heard of someone taking their file backups with them when they leave their house. What if you accidentally left it somewhere?

 

[nimrod]

Just when I had bought a 6 TB hard drive in January of 2020 and thought well I'll never fill that up, along comes newer producers and some older and start selling 2-3 gb clips with no option for clips that are like 800 mb. Am I the only one annoyed by this? It's especially annoying seeing as I back up my favorite clips to flash drives that I take with me when I leave the house, but the max size of those is way less than 6 TB, which is making it either I need a bigger flash drive ( I already have 3 0.5 TB ones), more of them, or just not backing up these clips and if my computer becomes damaged somehow I'm out those clips forever.

Unless I'm the only one is it too much to ask these producers to either knock it off or offer smaller options?

I've begun reducing the size of very large clips using HandBrake: https://handbrake.fr/ I choose a resolution that I can't really distinguish from the original.

 

[cletus]

This is the first time I have ever heard of someone taking their file backups with them when they leave their house. What if you accidentally left it somewhere?

They stay in my lunch box or pocket. I don't take them out ever as I'm more afraid of someone seeing them and stealing them. You just always hear of people losing everything in a fire. Clothes and what not can be replaced. Family photos and porn I've spent thousands on are not covered by insurance.

 

[ticklishbod20]

They stay in my lunch box or pocket. I don't take them out ever as I'm more afraid of someone seeing them and stealing them. You just always hear of people losing everything in a fire. Clothes and what not can be replaced. Family photos and porn I've spent thousands on are not covered by insurance.

This actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[hefophre]

Their are small fire rated safes. A lunchbox can be forgotten. A hard drive in your pocket could fall out. Are they password protected or just available for anyone to find?

 

[cletus]

Their are small fire rated safes. A lunchbox can be forgotten. A hard drive in your pocket could fall out. Are they password protected or just available for anyone to find?

I have 3 of these safes and assuming the fire would somehow start in my unit or perhaps a next door neighbor do they survive long enough for the fire department to get out and put the fire out. Nah in 15 years of doing this I have never lost them, forgot them, etc. My lunchbox goes with me to work or other places I go, but I never go any place other than friends and family. Hence no chance of something related to that happening because lunch box comes and goes to work with me every day and I'm an accountant so that lunch box is always at my desk with me.

 

[kingmaker]

I advise using backblaze for backup.

The problem is that a lot of producers do not understand their export settings too much. I see a lot of 1080P files at 20 mb/s, where 8 or 10000 should be enough.

And if they export in H265 (HEVC) codec, you can have 25 % of the size for the same quality. Also the FPS, 60 fps is double the size from 30, I don't see any added value as I like the motion blur