Open Source and Big Tech are equally important, and of course if you can afford to have the latest Mac - just do it, if you can afford to subscribe for 1TB plan from your cloud provider - just do it.
You can save 10 times more storage by compressing media files from high quality to normal and using Gentoo, an eco-friendly distribution, for specific purposes.
Gentoo offers performance gains of around 20% compared to Ubuntu for video processing tasks, but its worth depends on the specific case.
In case the image compression doesn't work, you can use alternative tools like IrfanView and have a good understanding of fps and bitrate before compressing videos.