![]() Culling and trimming video clips with Quicktime Pro is my first step before I import video into Lightroom. Quicktime Pro just cuts out the bits you don’t want to keep and saves the rest in it’s original format. Re-encoding wastes a significant amount of time, and can alter the quality of the original video (or actually increase the storage space depending on your export settings). ![]() This is very different from using a video editor like Adobe Premiere Pro to trim video clips: in Adobe Premiere Pro you can trim your video, but then you have to re-encode and export your trimmed clip as a new video. With Quicktime Pro, you can cut your video clips (and/or delete the audio tracks), and then save the remaining portion of the video clip in it’s original format – without re-rendering the clip. The easiest way I have found to cut or trim video clips without re-rendering (re-encoding) is to use Apple Quicktime Pro. The big problem is video clips that contain some usable content, but most of the clip is trash (aka: every single video clip ever recorded). Video files take up a massive amount of space – so you should definitely trash individual clips that don’t contain usable content. How To Trim and Cut Video Clips Without Re-EncodingĬulling and trimming your trash video clips is a little more complicated than working with image files. If you need some incentive, this article “Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos” should get you started. However, there is a super easy way to save storage space – and it’s much better than recording images or video at lower quality settings: simply delete everything except your best photos and video, and trim your video clips! The more data you have, the larger backup infrastructure you need and the longer it will take. Where storing a large amount of full resolution RAW image files and full 4k video is a problem is during backups – especially cloud backups. However, if your computer isn’t capable of these tasks, there are probably a whole lot of other tasks that its not capable of either – so is the solution really to generate lower quality source material because you have a crappy old computer? This can be a problem if your computer hardware isn’t up to the task of editing RAW files or full resolution 4k video clips. The more data you generate, the more space and computer resources you need. ![]() That’s a crazy amount of storage for a pretty damn low price.īut I Still Want To Save Space and Computer Resources Well, you can get a selection of 8TB internal and external hard drives in the $200 – $300 range. OK – but what about computer storage? Advertisements I rarely come close to using that much in camera storage on a single professional shoot – and a recreational user should never even come close to needing that much storage. That’s over 1500 full resolution RAW photos or roughly 3 full hours of 4k video footage (depending on your specific camera). ![]() I mean, you can get a 128 GB UHS-I SD card from B&H for less than $70. So the short answer is: The highest quality setting your camera has.Ĭontinue reading for the rational behind this, and tips for archiving high quality photos and video while saving storage space…īut Don’t High Quality Photos and Video Take Up More Storage Space? I usually answer that question with another question: Have you ever desperately wished that you only had a low quality version of a specific image or video clip? No? Me neither. One of the questions I get most often from people who have just picked up a new camera is: What camera quality settings should I use for photos and video?
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