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[apaar123]

All of you people  out there who does YouTube, I wanted to ask that do you store your original videos? How much storage do you really have? Also in what bitrate does YouTube allow to upload videos because my camera records at 50mb/s and how much can I compress my files in handbrake?Can I bring bitrate down in handbrake? Sorry for asking so many questions, I am just starting. Thank you 

[LienusLateTips]

I'm getting a NAS, but right now I am using two 1TB HDDs on my server-computer.

[mariushm]

I keep my original videos as recorded by the camera (at 20-25 mbps) and the project file - i can always render the video again if needed.

 

Youtube recompresses everything you throw at it, so i generally render at 40-60 mbps and some decent quality vs speed profile (at 40-60mbps for 1080p there's enough bitrate that those quality vs speed settings don't matter as much). I have plenty of upload bandwidth to not care about uploading some low bitrate video.

 

You shouldn't use handbrake to create your video, unless the editor you use is really dumb.

 

For 720p about 10 mbps should be enough. For 1080p, you'd get good quality between 15 mbps and 25mbps , depends on what you actually do in the videos.

If it's some drone camera action or some gopro stuff or some crap with lots of motion, you'd have to up the bitrate.. if it's just your talking head or some presentation or something with little movement, you can take it down a notch without Youtube messing up your video quality when it recompresses everything.

 

[apaar123]

40 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I keep my original videos as recorded by the camera (at 20-25 mbps) and the project file - i can always render the video again if needed.

 

Youtube recompresses everything you throw at it, so i generally render at 40-60 mbps and some decent quality vs speed profile (at 40-60mbps for 1080p there's enough bitrate that those quality vs speed settings don't matter as much). I have plenty of upload bandwidth to not care about uploading some low bitrate video.

 

You shouldn't use handbrake to create your video, unless the editor you use is really dumb.

 

For 720p about 10 mbps should be enough. For 1080p, you'd get good quality between 15 mbps and 25mbps , depends on what you actually do in the videos.

If it's some drone camera action or some gopro stuff or some crap with lots of motion, you'd have to up the bitrate.. if it's just your talking head or some presentation or something with little movement, you can take it down a notch without Youtube messing up your video quality when it recompresses everything.

 

my bandwidth is good too so no worries about it. I will be uploading lets plays with my facecam and will be using premiere pro