It's a new year and the 2010 Autocross season is fast approaching, which means I'm faced with a pretty large problem at the moment. I have, on my YouTube channel, over 800 videos and I need to make room for new videos from this year. The problem of course is how do I make everyone happy while at the same time making it easy to navigate through the videos?
If I add to the already 800 videos currently online I'll end up with a ton of videos that will be hard to navigate through creating a huge mess. The simple solution is to do what I did with the 2008 videos and just delete them without notice or warning. However, that's not nice or a good way to make friends. Another solution would be to edit the videos and combine them into a handfull of longer videos which would take a large amount of time and effort on my part but would serve to both reduce the number of overall videos and keep all the current videos online.
A third and more profitable solution for myself would be to simply sell people the videos of their runs and allow them to upload the videos to their own channels provided that they include a mention of my name. This way they could keep their videos online, I could make some money and it would give me room to add the new videos. I've actually been thinking about that idea for a while now since some people have mentioned wanting to pay me for filming the videos in the first place. Again this is an option that would benefit both groups and potentially raise money to purchase more and better film equipment for myself.
But I'm not sure how it would be received on the forums or what to actually charge for the videos. After all I don't want to look like an ass doing this. Looks like I'll have to run this idea by the other photographers in the area and see what they think. In the mean time what do you think of the following proposal?
Proposal: In order to make room for videos of the 2010 Autocross season I need to thin out the current 2009 autocross videos significantly. While I could just delete them from YouTube forever and not think about it anymore I thought I'd put out an idea that would benefit both of us. Would any of you be interested in purchasing the original source file video of your cars so that you could upload them to your own YouTube channel. Price would be set at $1 each. You would need to provide me with your name, car, number and which videos you would like as well as your preferred method of download or DVD since I don't have a dedicated DDL line I'll need to use something like Rapidshare (I have an account there) or other service. I can do cash or paypal.
I don't know, I'm still thinking about it. and when I get it entirely worked out I'll update this post with the new information. In the mean time how about some autocross footage to remind you how much fun we had this last year so that we can look forward to the fun we'll have this next year.
An interesting side note one of my pictures of this Galant VR-4 was used on Jalopnik for an article which made me happy.
