Your smartphone might be home to all kinds of videos of you lifting weights and exercising at the gym. You probably captured lots of the footage at the spur of the moment, and you might not even remember what you recorded. If you have plans on becoming a fitness professional, however, all that video footage could have promotional value. Moving the footage to a cloud storage server could protect it from a catastrophic loss. Be mindful that losing the video footage means you lose irreplaceable footage. Not only can that hurt your business plans, but it might be personally hurtful. The video footage represents slices of your life.

The Videos and Their Value

The videos do more than capture memories. Someone who lives the fitness lifestyle may come up with inspired moments when training. The videos could serve as the basis for short or lengthy videos that expand upon your training ideas. Uploading them online may prove popular with viewers and potential personal training clients. Losing the video footage would eliminate a great deal of valuable material. If you feel keeping the content on an old laptop's hard drive is sufficient, you're embracing a significant risk. External damage, theft, and even accidental disposals could see the footage gone forever. 

Uploading and Organizing the Video

Uploading video files to a cloud storage service dramatically increases the chances they remain safe. Uploading the data, however, represents the first step. Organizing things should follow. When the time comes to start editing footage for a fitness channel, you don't want to be fishing for the material. A decent cloud storage provider does present easy ways to organize the content. Creating custom folders and placing the videos into the appropriate ones serves as a reliable way to organize footage. Perhaps you could create three major folders: upper body, lower body, and core. Within these main folders, you can create additional folders for biceps, triceps, quadriceps, calves, and more. 

Duplicating the Files on Another Account

The notion that there's no such thing as being overly cautious applies to steps to safeguard vital video footage. If you have one cloud storage account, there's no reason why you can't open another. If the cost for the accounts is reasonable, consider the second account reflective of a small — yet important — investment. Duplicating all the video files and placing them in a second account won't take much effort. While the odds of anything happening to the first account are low, why take a chance? You have a helpful fitness channel to produce.

Reach out to cloud storage providers when you need storage for things like important videos.