How does ltt do so much video work

[The Torrent]

Just watching the new petabyte project is full video and I see they used up a petabyte and I see all those people working there.

 

i mean no offence Linus but the video quality isn’t really high I don’t understand how you can go through so much data and so much workforce power I know there’s channels like techlinked but seriously the amount your going through how? How can each video me taking up any more than 10gb forget the tens of thousands of gigabytes of data per video you must be using how?

[Levent]

Even I can fill up couple of terabytes while recording at absurd bitrates, its not that hard.

[The Torrent]

10 minutes ago, Levent said:

Even I can fill up couple of terabytes while recording at absurd bitrates, its not that hard.

So your saying ltt are recording at absurd bitrstes?

[Zodiark1593]

1 minute ago, The Torrent said:

So your saying ltt are recording at absurd bitrstes?

Raw video devours egregious quantities of data, especially 8K Redcode RAW. They also probably delete very little, holding onto footage even if it never gets used in a final product.

[The Torrent]

1 minute ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Raw video devours egregious quantities of data, especially 8K Redcode RAW. They also probably delete very little, holding onto footage even if it never gets used in a final product.

So why do they record as such high resolutions with whatever redcode raw is when it only ends up 1080p

[Zando_]

Just now, The Torrent said:

So why do they record as such high resolutions with whatever redcode raw is when it only ends up 1080p

 

[nick name]

You can take something shot at 8K and do a lot more in post than you can by shooting in 4K and then being stuck at that resolution with other post effects you may wish to employ.  

[mariushm]

They also record videos you don't see on Youtube.. ads for companies and stuff...

 

Videos like the mentioned one are lower production value ... but there's videos like the ones below that are shot on RED (i guess) or other high end cameras and you can see the higher quality.

As for the second video it may be shot in regular 1080p or 4K but it's still nearly 40 minutes after editing... they probably shot 4-5 hours of footage before editing so it's still a lot of disk space :

 

 

 

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Actually most of the space is taken up by James' My Little Pony collection.

[Tsuki]

they film in raw 8k, which takes up a huge amount of space. they keep their entire backlog of videos stored locally. and they do work not on youtube. they do training videos and TV stuff all the time, you just dont see it cuz they dont post that stuff to youtube.

im surprised it took as long as it did to fill up petabyte project

[LogicalDrm]

13 hours ago, The Torrent said:

So why do they record as such high resolutions with whatever redcode raw is when it only ends up 1080p

That would be Youtube, and actually reason why they record and edit in 8K to begin with. Youtube makes everything look worse. If they would be serving full 4K videos files (or 1080p from FP), you would understand that YT is the main culprit in "quality". Its been noted that FP HD is very similar to YT 4K.

[Fyre]

I just don't get why they have to save every second of footage, even of videos that were not that great, and in raw 8k footage.

[SenKa]

16 minutes ago, Fyre said:

I just don't get why they have to save every second of footage, even of videos that were not that great, and in raw 8k footage.

Because if they didn't, every time they had to download footage from YT then reupload it to YT it would be compression hellscape.

 

Really what it comes down to is Linus is paying for the massive amounts of bulk storage because he can be assured whenever they need to pull footage, it will be of the quality it was shot in. This makes the editors lives much easier, as they can spend less time cleaning up a compressed mess to be somewhat presentable, and it also makes their jobs faster having the source footage. Thats more time to spend editing, creating better content, and making LMG a little richer. Never believe everything you read on the internet, but supposedly LMG is worth ~15 million. Time is money and all that.

[Flying Sausages]

23 minutes ago, SenKa said:

Because if they didn't, every time they had to download footage from YT then reupload it to YT it would be compression hellscape.

 

Really what it comes down to is Linus is paying for the massive amounts of bulk storage because he can be assured whenever they need to pull footage, it will be of the quality it was shot in. This makes the editors lives much easier, as they can spend less time cleaning up a compressed mess to be somewhat presentable, and it also makes their jobs faster having the source footage. Thats more time to spend editing, creating better content, and making LMG a little richer. Never believe everything you read on the internet, but supposedly LMG is worth ~15 million. Time is money and all that.

Linus networth is more than 2 mil, and everyone else in LMG is broke asf.

[SenKa]

17 hours ago, mariushm said:

 

 

I just watched this video, totally missed it. That is fucking golden

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, Fyre said:

I just don't get why they have to save every second of footage, even of videos that were not that great, and in raw 8k footage.

Well, they're a media production company, and you're not - it's not meant as an insult, but they seem to know what they are doing.

 

Plus it means they have all that footage to go back and re-use for whatever they want.

 

16 minutes ago, OlympicAssEater said:

Linus networth is more than 2 mil, and everyone else in LMG is broke asf.

Linus himself isn't rolling in cold hard cash. Net worth is a very misleading number.

 

Linus Media Group, the company, is likely worth at least a few million - and Linus owns the company, so therefore that's his net worth too. But that net worth is only worth a damn if someone chose to buy the company from him.

 

I'm sure he's living comfortably at home - I'm sure they have decent savings, etc. But I'm also sure he's not "cash rich".

 

Also, whether his employees are "broke asf" (source, please?), is not really his fault or concern. He pays them well - well above minimum wage. They're not raking in millions either, but they are making good skilled worker wages.

[Ezzy-525]

20 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

Actually most of the space is taken up by James' My Little Pony collection.

Unfortunately true. James is Chief of the Bronies.

[realpetertdm]

On 9/7/2019 at 7:59 AM, The Torrent said:

Just watching the new petabyte project is full video and I see they used up a petabyte and I see all those people working there.

 

i mean no offence Linus but the video quality isn’t really high I don’t understand how you can go through so much data and so much workforce power I know there’s channels like techlinked but seriously the amount your going through how? How can each video me taking up any more than 10gb forget the tens of thousands of gigabytes of data per video you must be using how?

They film using 8K RED cameras, so I imagine the video size is quiiiite big. A FHD 2 hour movie is ~5 gigs and that's only 1080p.

[LogicalDrm]

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Please try to stay on topic. If you want to discuss about working, wealth etc. related to LMG or just in general, you can do it in Off Topic.

[Ethan_Li]

A bunch of people working full time will do that. As well as shooting with RED cameras.

[harryk]

20 hours ago, Fyre said:

I just don't get why they have to save every second of footage, even of videos that were not that great, and in raw 8k footage.

Because you end up with the original Apollo 11 tapes being erased. Not saying that LTT videos are as significant as the moon landing, but you never know what will become important in 50 years. Not sure if its Linus or someone else at LMG but someone must have archivist tendencies which I can easily relate to. Besides it's a good excuse to play with cool server hardware.

[X-System]

On 9/7/2019 at 1:20 AM, The Torrent said:

So why do they record as such high resolutions with whatever redcode raw is when it only ends up 1080p

I watch videos LTT in 1440p from my smartphone & my PC and in 2160p from my TV.

[The Torrent]

11 minutes ago, X-System said:

I watch videos LTT in 1440p from my smartphone & my PC and in 2160p from my TV.

are ltt videos available in 1440P??? how??

[mariushm]

2 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

are ltt videos available in 1440P??? how??

Your videos are offered in higher resolutions, if you upload high resolution content in the first place.

Upload 4K videos, Youtube may offer 1440p content.

[X-System]

3 minutes ago, The Torrent said:

are ltt videos available in 1440P??? how??

 

Many videos available in 1440p and 2160p

 

Only WAN videos available up to 1080p