Tips for storage of footage

[laputanmachine]

For the time being I have limited storage for video game footage I want to record. I'd rather stay at 1080p. With my current settings even at CQP 30 an hour of gameplay still is like 4GB (could vary depending on game of course)

Which encoder should I be using? I heard H265 HEVC is more efficient with file size but should not be used due to a number of issues. Can these issues be circumvented?

I've also heard you can reduce file sizes by messing with the files in programs like Avidemux or Handbrake. How inconvenient is doing this manually? Do people usually automate this? Could I record at a good QP and get a really good filesize or is the reduction minimal?

Lastly, in theory I can just private stream to Youtube and just download the low bitrate footage dumped there as needed for editing, right? How hard is this process in practice?

It seems Youtube didn't want to save the streams when I tried streaming there and I've seen something on the net about how you need to request being able to upload 15min+ streams or something. I'm just unsure how to get the gameplay to be saved. Also I could never get my Youtube Account to successfully connect on OBS which means I have to go to the pain of setting the stream up in the browser every time.

If you have ANY tips in this direction please let me know.

Twitch used to be kinda good for this but now you have to mark videos to avoid deletion or something. Also you need a public stream for the VOD.

 

[koala]

ANY tip?
OK, this is my tip:
Get yourself a big spinning disk hard drive and store your raw footage raw without reencoding. Just move the raw recordings over. The optimal price/space ratio currently seem 6 TB disks with the cheapest disks having 18 Euro per TB or 108 Euro for a 6 TB disk. With such a disk, you don't have space issues for the foreseeable future, I suppose. An external (USB) drive of this size is 19-20 Euro per TB, i. e. the cheapest I find is about 116 Euro. Disks with 8 TB are only slightly more expensive, about 20 Euro per TB.

Using Youtube or any other video streaming provider for storage is silly. Youtube will re-encode and tinyfy everything, so it becomes a bloody mess if you want to use it again for postprocessing. The same applies for any streamed video in the first place that was streamed with a data rate below 20 mbit/s for 1080p (and most even above that).
You can reencode your raw footage with Handbrake, but that takes time and you lose much quality you might need for postprocessing, so I would not do that either.

 

[laputanmachine]

In my country electronics are expensive. I'd be paying like 300 euro in my currency.

edit:Actually the cheapest 6tb drives I found were Seagates at around 240 euros converting, but many 6 tb drives were over 300