Remember the fun, speed, ease of use as you turn on a new computer or laptop for the first time. How it zings, lightning fast and is not bogged down with a clean, shiny large wide open hard drive to feed?

Real estate video can bring that hard drive to its knees, cause a log jam, a computer road block on the information highway. Anemic, bloated, poorly performing overloaded hard drives a side effect of real estate video. And cleaning out video clips can become a new daily chore. You can use a HD video tape drive. You can save each projects raw footage to disc. But if you want to hang on to local area vids for all four seasons to use in your community and real estate videos, it's nice to have them parked right near your mouse. Tucked away in your hard drive to avoid time consuming search for that tape or disc copy. So, consider if you have been faily good this year of asking Santa for a terabyte or petrabyte storage solution. Terabyte..a thousand gigabytes.

    

My kids have 3500 mp3 songs on their ipods.

They have laptops with the same kind of storage depletion as more and more files pile up, get collected. If you are considering getting into real estate video, have a whopping big hard drive and with hd  graphics card that will handle the new load on the computer system.  I find that footage shot of real estate that I will never use again or that has been sold and will require new shoot with a relist can be deleted. But it's the area ME community video events that are hard to deep six, that will be needed in a future production. For over 360 local Maine community / real estate videos, take the tour. The term for one billion megabytes? Petrabyte, and Exabyte means a trillion megabytes.

     What you shoot, edit and upload to youtube, other real estate video platforms in an avi state could be 400 or more megabytes. It used to be 100 megabytes or less than 10 minutes was the rule for file size. And editing to get under that wire for the longer community pieces is one concern, or red flag. Many video outlets allow up to 200 megabytes now, probably as HD video caused a need for more space in the video cupboard. With various compression formats, you can whittle it down with varying degrees of degradation in video/audio quality. For the embedded real estate website quick tour snippets to guide and introduce, HD high quality video imagery is the way to fly. You can buy a tetrabyte stand alone hard drive add on unit for under a $100 these days.