I would love having the possibility of seeing a (possible/approsimative) filesize when tweaking the settings for saving highlights or potgs, it would save some time too!
I’ve saved quite a few POTGs in 1080p 60Hz mp4 format. The smallest is 42MB and the largest is 78MB.
Many data compression formats are variable bitrate and they result in much smaller compressed size in certain cases. For example your POTG is much easier to compress if you don’t move the camera much (e.g.: with a scoped camping widow or very long deadeye) compared to a POTG where you are jumping around like crazy (e.g.: epilepsy genji dragonblade POTG) but it depends on a lot of other factors too (the pattern of the image on the screen which depends not only on your camera position but also on the map). The size can’t really be predicted with variable bitrate formats. Audio compression is similar.
The only possible “prediction” would be compressing all the data just like when saving, but not saving/writing it to disk, only counting the bytes that should be saved. It would of course take as much time as saving.
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thank you this is actually a very informative response! Maybe we could have something along the lines of “file size = big/medium/small” which each size having an approssimative ammount that could ben like “between x and y mb”?
I don’t think big/medium/small would be descriptive/useful for most people. They’d probably come to this forum to ask questions like what “big” and “medium” mean. It wouldn’t solve the problem - it’d simply turn it into a different problem.
If you are fine with very rough “low quality” estimations than save one or a few videos in that format (POTGs are always short) and check the size. Most people don’t really change the format. They set up something that isn’t too low quality and isn’t too high quality (because that takes more time to save and requires more storage) and use that most of the time.
I don’t think this is possible. There are probably theoretical limits to video compression outputs but those would be ridiculous and useless like “between 1MB and 100MB”. Where 1 MB would be something like compressing the simplest video (black screen without audio) and 100MB would be the most complex possible, the worst case scenario for the given algorithm.
BTW, I think size doesn’t matter that much for most people. Mostly because the POTG is short even if someone saves it in 4K high quality. Another reason is that storage is super cheap. Several TB large hard drives are affordable today and they are perfect for storing videos.
Another good idea would be uploading and storing your videos on something like youtube. An advantage of this solution is being able to show it easily to your friends and some online storage solutions are more reliable/durable than a hard drive that can fail easily.
I never used online video websites but before starting to use one check out their limits (file size, video length, quality, number of allowed videos). My machine has only a 250GB SSD but it is more than enough for me in my gamer PC. If it wasn’t enough I’d buy another SSD or hard disk.