Personally I kind of fright from the "have you considered throwing away your best copies" as a sales strategy.
On the flip side, I think it would help a lot a lot a lot if there was more discourse out there about compressing high-dynamic-range content. AV1 supposedly has some capability to do a good-ish job with HDR. The idea of taking reels of raw video and spending a couple days squishing it to 1/10th the sizes but preserving the quality/flexibility very very well is a value proposition that I dont think is clearly attainable, even though it seems technically perhaps within reach.
Right now, I think the general feeling is, raw is raw & everything else bakes in a vast amount of assumptions & constrictions. Some advocacy that compressed video can be as flexible, as dynamic, as capable need to be more present, elaborated, & proven before anyone's going to be comfortable throwing away the bits. These are people's life's works & a couple hundred or thousand dollars a year more in storage isnt a real factor for such integral, near work.
I don't have a sales strategy, I'm not selling anything. I'm questioning the need of buying needless storage for data hoarding you're never going to use.
Have you seen Jeff's videos? They're mostly him talking to the camera in what I think is his basement, or closeups of various PCBs. If you're running a stock photo company I get wanting to keep footage at max quality, but once your Youtube video is published, do you really need to save all those alternate takes and cut out bits? I just don't see them being very useful in the future, and if you do end up needing some of it for B roll or whatever, would a couple of seconds of compressed video really make a drastic difference for the project as a whole? Especially since the final result ends up on Youtube and consumed on a phone screen or a TV two meters away.
Much of the content that's produced today is not trying to be timeless classics with endless rewatch value, it's ephemeral and only really relevant for a short time. If you can reupload your videos to other video hosts in the future that's probably good enough. Nobody is watching reviews of three year old Raspberry Pi add on boards for the low noise in dark parts of the image, or the accurate color reproduction, or even the 4K instead of 1080p resolution. Kill your darlings!
For many people it’s an art. Just because it’s a raspberry pi video doesn’t mean people don’t want to be proud of the video quality and color accuracy and all that jazz!
Why comment your code or name your variables well if the project will be over soon? No one is buying your product for the clean code behind it. If you need it later just use a reverse compiler. It’s good enough for a project you may never need!
People do things for the art and to be proud of the quality. And you don’t want to throw that out!
On the flip side, I think it would help a lot a lot a lot if there was more discourse out there about compressing high-dynamic-range content. AV1 supposedly has some capability to do a good-ish job with HDR. The idea of taking reels of raw video and spending a couple days squishing it to 1/10th the sizes but preserving the quality/flexibility very very well is a value proposition that I dont think is clearly attainable, even though it seems technically perhaps within reach.
Right now, I think the general feeling is, raw is raw & everything else bakes in a vast amount of assumptions & constrictions. Some advocacy that compressed video can be as flexible, as dynamic, as capable need to be more present, elaborated, & proven before anyone's going to be comfortable throwing away the bits. These are people's life's works & a couple hundred or thousand dollars a year more in storage isnt a real factor for such integral, near work.