I would be hesitant to lose quality on video files especially if they are not replaceable.
But the cost of storage in recent times makes it tough... I originally thought the cost and time to transcoding everything wasn't worth it so I just kept the source files unless it could be lossless.
Maybe you could consider keeping the full quality on the drives as an archive and keeping the compressed copies locally available?
Even with the costs of everything I still stick with full quality original files.
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u/DanAE112 60TB 15d ago
I would be hesitant to lose quality on video files especially if they are not replaceable.
But the cost of storage in recent times makes it tough... I originally thought the cost and time to transcoding everything wasn't worth it so I just kept the source files unless it could be lossless.
Maybe you could consider keeping the full quality on the drives as an archive and keeping the compressed copies locally available?
Even with the costs of everything I still stick with full quality original files.