I’ve been keeping the original Final Cut files of all of my YouTube videos, and I do occasionally need and use them for future projects. However, storage for this is starting to become a little too expensive, and I came up with an idea.

Keep the originals for a few months, then delete them and only archive the final video and thumbnail. The question I’ve been asking myself for the last couple of days is: how many months is a few months? Three? Six? One year?