Editing and Uploading 4-5 Hour Video?

[Captain13]

I recorded a bunch of cutscenes from a video game and saved them to a flash drive. I'd like to edit them together to post as a single video on YouTube, and I'm expecting the video length to be 4-5 hours once the editing is complete.

My problem is that my PC doesn't have enough memory to locally store all of the recordings, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the memory to store the edited video before upload. I use the video editing software that came with my PC (Microsoft Clipchamp). It only works if the videos you're editing are locally stored; otherwise, you're looking at endless load time. It also doesn't upload directly to YouTube, even though it claims it does. It saves the completed project locally then uploads that to YouTube. If you don't have enough local memory, or if you try to save the video on a flash drive with enough memory, you're just out of luck.

I tried to Google search video editing work stations I could rent near me that might be able to handle a problem like this, but it doesn't look like this is an active business model in the DC/DMV area. I could be wrong though.

Just looking for suggestions on how I can get this done rather than breaking he video into parts. Maybe there's better software options out there, Maybe there are work stations I could rent near me rather than paying someone else to edit. IDK. Your input is why I'm here.

[Swedaniel]

I recorded a bunch of cutscenes from a video game and saved them to a flash drive. I'd like to edit them together to post as a single video on YouTube, and I'm expecting the video length to be 4-5 hours once the editing is complete.

My problem is that my PC doesn't have enough memory to locally store all of the recordings, and even if it did, it wouldn't have the memory to store the edited video before upload. I use the video editing software that came with my PC (Microsoft Clipchamp). It only works if the videos you're editing are locally stored; otherwise, you're looking at endless load time. It also doesn't upload directly to YouTube, even though it claims it does. It saves the completed project locally then uploads that to YouTube. If you don't have enough local memory, or if you try to save the video on a flash drive with enough memory, you're just out of luck.

I tried to Google search video editing work stations I could rent near me that might be able to handle a problem like this, but it doesn't look like this is an active business model in the DC/DMV area. I could be wrong though.

Just looking for suggestions on how I can get this done rather than breaking he video into parts. Maybe there's better software options out there, Maybe there are work stations I could rent near me rather than paying someone else to edit. IDK. Your input is why I'm here.

I dont think i have ever tested the funtion myself, things might go to hell, but maybe if there is limited storage on your disk that is the current issue, if you right click your harddrive disk and select properties, you can select an box "compress this drive to save storage".. if you are lucky it will compress your files on the disk to make more storage avalible, maybe just enough to be able to complete the video and upload it to youtube, and once done you can remove the checkbox and it sould de-compress the files and all goes back to normal!

Edit: Allso if you have very very much RAM Memory avalible there is an such program called "RAM Drive" that can virtually allocate an selected portion of your RAM memory to create an local disk avalible to save files on, even up to 4-5GB if you have it, some even let you select file format for this virtual drive (Such as NTFS). Maybe this program would function better with this drive then an slow USB memory and temporary fix the problem! There is multiple different programs for this that is completely free and the installation take about 15-30 seconds and to then activate the drive take just a few seconds once you have selected the amount of memory to use!

Just beware: Once you reboot your computer or turn of this RAM Drive, the files on it is gone!

[Cornucopia]

No. Do not do this. NTFS file compacting feature is equivalent to zip file archiving. This is quite handy for standard program files, uncompressed data files, etc. BUT, since basically ALL lossy compressed media files ALREADY incorporate another equivalent to zip (lossless compression), built into their algorithms, you would be attempting to compound the existing compression, which according to its algorithms' parameters, is already as optimally compressed as it can be.
So the result for those files would be: a varied range of 1-2% improvement through 5-10% worsening of filesize, along with VERY long compression and decompression times.

As mentioned, it could help for other files, filetypes. But if the intended target is the media files in question, I very much do not recommend it.

Best to get a fast external drive, which should not be that expensive, and you get to keep the drive for other uses, unlike renting a PC.


Scott

[usually_quiet]

I looked at some of the online reviews and videos about Clipchamp. It looks like it's fun, versitile and easy to use but based on what I read, this program is intended to be used for creating videos that are significantly shorter than 4-5 hours since Microsoft recommends that projects have a run time of 10 minutes or less. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/is-there-a-maximum-project-length-24509899-1...8-4f8a822a7487

I don't know if it's possible to create a bunch of shorter videos with Clipchamp and join them together with another editor.

[Cornucopia]

I agree with @usually_quiet, best to start and stick with a better editor (resolve, premiere, shotcut, so many...) and use a separate drive.

10 hours (5hrs originals + 5 hours compilation master) = 36000 seconds.
@ 10Mbps (common for medium quality h264/h265 compressed material) = 360,000 Mb or ~45GB. Which is minor in terms of storage, and easily achieved with an inexpensive external drive.


Scott

[usually_quiet]

I agree with @usually_quiet, best to start and stick with a better editor (resolve, premiere, shotcut, so many...) and use a separate drive.

You read my mind. Initially, I was going to explicitly suggest exactly the same thing but I was worried that Captain13 might object to the cost, or the learning curve (or both) that are associated with those editors and tried to split the difference.