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# Media schemes

A **media scheme** defines what happens to a capture after it is uploaded: the processing steps, the files they produce, and how long the media set is kept before it expires.

On Free, media is kept at most 7 days.

## Temporary output

Files from a step with **Temporary output** are not stored with the media set. Put the steps that use them directly after it, with only other **Temporary output** steps in between. Processing can resume after any other step, such as **Pause processing**, and a resumed run no longer has those files.

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