After getting over being annoyed at the camera stopping due to overheating after just 5 minutes, I was shocked to see a 7 second clip come to almost 700mb as a raw file.

Indeed video will probably be the last kind of network to see federation. It could take some pretty generous acts of philanthropy along the way to make anything sustainable happen.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I did a music video in 4k on an A7s2 and the source files, for what ended up as a 4 minute video, were around 100GB.

[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100 GB ? that's cute. I work in a film production company for advertisements, where the recent trend has been for the crew to return after 3-5 days of shooting, with RAIDs filled with somewhere between 15 and 25 TB of raw data. no fun to store all this.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Well yeah it was a single music video

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Wait holy fuck I missed the "T". 25 TB for a commercial is wild

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, that's an extreme example. That's way above what on even a 4K BR disc.

I think Netflix is like 6GB for a two hour movie 1080p which is more manageable, but my connection (at a whopping 6Mbps upload) would just about be able to host that for one other person to see.

Modern connections can do a lot, but it would have to be a large peer to peer solution to be back in the hands of the masses. A couple of Linux nerds with a spare server under their desk isn't going to cut it. Realistically, popular videos would have to be on a CDN of some sort, and that ain't particularly cheap at scale.

Freedom isn't free, as the song goes.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I'd happily pay for a federated video service tbh. I already pay for YouTube. I didn't even blink when they raised the price on me because I get so much value out of it