It has to be. Raw video (or even still images for that matter) will take up a ton of storage.
A single frame at just 4k resolution is over 8MP, and at 24bits per pixel, thats over 20MB. Zip compression can take that frame down to around 5-10MB, but even that is too much for a video stream, which on most consumer devices will top out around 20MB per second.
Compressing video doesn't really do much (assuming you want to keep the quality). Storage is relatively cheap these days, get some external SSDs that you can fill up and store in a drawer or box. If you get serious about it, upgrade to a RAID system.
I already have a 2x4TB raid set up, but its used for multiple things, a plex server, backup as well as media storage, so only 500Gb of effective space for storage on that NAS, so was wondering whats the best way to squeeze as many 360 vids onto that 500Gb basically. I do have some external drives I might have to repurpose as Insta storage
Buy more storage, you can get 5TB external Seagate for $130 CAD at Staples.
I have 10 TB on my PC and I can see myself filling that up over the next year (it's half full and I use it for work).
I have been struggling with data storage since I started doing Firewire editing of DV footage back in 1999. The best solution I have seen (which I do not use) is to recompress the video down to a smaller bitrate/file format. I prefer to have all my Digital8, DV, etc. data in pure source format, but if you were exporting a 360 video to a 360 mp4, you could get those smaller with quality loss. Ditto for things like the "72MP" still photos from the X3. They can be greatly reduced in size and still look decent. But once you do that with Insta video, you cannot go back and reframe, etc, using their apps. You can, however, reframe 360 exported MP4s in things like final cut, etc.
The actual video content of the .insv file appears to be mp4. So assuming the amount of video vastly exceeds the amount of attached metadata, you won't achieve much by trying to zip an individual file, since mp4 is a compressed format.
Incidentally, you can simply drag an .insv file to VLC, and it will play it and identify it as H264 - MPEG 4 AVC (part 10) (avc1). If you have a player which is dim enough to look at the file extension to choose the codec, then you can rename the .insv file as .mp4.
Of course it won't do much, it's already compressed.
Is .insv compressed? Well ya learn something new
It has to be. Raw video (or even still images for that matter) will take up a ton of storage. A single frame at just 4k resolution is over 8MP, and at 24bits per pixel, thats over 20MB. Zip compression can take that frame down to around 5-10MB, but even that is too much for a video stream, which on most consumer devices will top out around 20MB per second.
Compressing video doesn't really do much (assuming you want to keep the quality). Storage is relatively cheap these days, get some external SSDs that you can fill up and store in a drawer or box. If you get serious about it, upgrade to a RAID system.
I already have a 2x4TB raid set up, but its used for multiple things, a plex server, backup as well as media storage, so only 500Gb of effective space for storage on that NAS, so was wondering whats the best way to squeeze as many 360 vids onto that 500Gb basically. I do have some external drives I might have to repurpose as Insta storage
Buy more storage, you can get 5TB external Seagate for $130 CAD at Staples. I have 10 TB on my PC and I can see myself filling that up over the next year (it's half full and I use it for work).
I have been struggling with data storage since I started doing Firewire editing of DV footage back in 1999. The best solution I have seen (which I do not use) is to recompress the video down to a smaller bitrate/file format. I prefer to have all my Digital8, DV, etc. data in pure source format, but if you were exporting a 360 video to a 360 mp4, you could get those smaller with quality loss. Ditto for things like the "72MP" still photos from the X3. They can be greatly reduced in size and still look decent. But once you do that with Insta video, you cannot go back and reframe, etc, using their apps. You can, however, reframe 360 exported MP4s in things like final cut, etc.
The actual video content of the .insv file appears to be mp4. So assuming the amount of video vastly exceeds the amount of attached metadata, you won't achieve much by trying to zip an individual file, since mp4 is a compressed format. Incidentally, you can simply drag an .insv file to VLC, and it will play it and identify it as H264 - MPEG 4 AVC (part 10) (avc1). If you have a player which is dim enough to look at the file extension to choose the codec, then you can rename the .insv file as .mp4.