Hobo Joe wrote:No reason to not compress them, just pick a compression that won't make it look like shit.
the problem here is that if someone then wants to use the compressed format videos, they have to decompress and recompile, which always causes a loss of quality... there is no way to hold onto 100% quality via compression no matter how you figure it
that been said, IIRC FLV iirc is reasonably good at retaining quality for decompression, should you wish to pursue the option of using clips from others.
i dont mind post-processing a video, and hell, i can even edit it, its just the issue of the massive filesizes of uncompressed material
and from my own experience, 50 gigs isn't even THAT much video, not in terms of 1080p and having a useful amount of content that can then be broken down into quick cuts.
tribulex should do this, he's got cores out the wazoo