YouTube Storage Question

[daviden]

This is going to sound like I'm an idiot, but I've been planning on starting a YouTube channel, and I'm under the impression that you need a dedicated HDD/SSD for your videos because of the storage requirements, but after looking into it, does YouTube store the videos for you? Then after uploading you can choose to just store all those videos seperately on your storage device?

[twoSalty]

once uploaded to youtube, you can download the video back off of youtube in the video manager somewhere. when i was doing youtube i had a dedicated harddrive for it for the same reason as LTT, so i can take clips of older videos and put them in my new one. its up to you really but youtube can store your videos.

[daviden]

3 minutes ago, twoSalty said:

once uploaded to youtube, you can download the video back off of youtube in the video manager somewhere. when i was doing youtube i had a dedicated harddrive for it for the same reason as LTT, so i can take clips of older videos and put them in my new one. its up to you really but youtube can store your videos.

Ya after thinking about it, I realized  that once you upload, the video on your storage isn't required and you can do whatever you want with it. So I guess it's really only recommended you have dedicated storage. 

[twoSalty]

1 minute ago, daviden said:

Ya after thinking about it, I realized  that once you upload, the video on you storage isn't required and you can do whatever you want with it. So I guess it's really only recommended you do. 

i would keep the video just because of the work you put into making it but if you dont have the suitable storage, do what you want. 

[RileyTheFox]

5 minutes ago, daviden said:

This is going to sound like I'm an idiot, but I've been planning on starting a YouTube channel, and I'm under the impression that you need a dedicated HDD/SSD for your videos because of the storage requirements, but after looking into it, does YouTube store the videos for you? Then after uploading you can choose to just store all those videos seperately on your storage device?

It's nice to archive things so you can use them later for things like montages and 'best of' type of videos. For example, I archive most original video files, all thumbnails, Sony vegas projects and exported videos.

[daviden]

1 minute ago, twoSalty said:

i would keep the video just because of the work you put into making it but if you dont have the suitable storage, do what you want. 

I would probably store the edited version rather than the raw footage, if I edited it that is.

[twoSalty]

2 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

It's nice to archive things so you can use them later for things like montages and 'best of' type of videos. For example, I archive most original video files, all thumbnails, Sony vegas projects and exported videos.

thats what i did.

[Electronics Wizardy]

14 minutes ago, EvilCat70 said:

It's nice to archive things so you can use them later for things like montages and 'best of' type of videos. For example, I archive most original video files, all thumbnails, Sony vegas projects and exported videos.

also keep it for copyright problems if they come up and if youtube goes down.

[felipe1702]

If you have space on your current HDD I'd store them there and then I’d think of getting a TB or two, I archive everything on my 2TB black, both project files, raw video and edited video in H265 at high bitrates, remember that YouTube wrecks your beautiful videos with bitrate reduction so it would be better to keep them, no need to use an SSD, unless you work with really long or a lot of raw video you can do everything from your HDD, if you work with a lot of clips or two hour long shadowplay videos you can move them to your SSD when working on them and then store them in an archive (also adobe project files compress very well so zip them up for long term archive).