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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

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!

vineyardmike 4y ago
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!

vineyardmike 4y ago

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!