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Zipping uncompressed quicktime files
Hello,
I have to send a 25 minute documentary to a film festival and the format they have requested is an uncompressed quicktime. This still amounts to 30gigs, which is obviously to large to fit onto a DVD. As I cannot make betacam master, I’d like to know if there is another way I can do this, like, for instance, zipping (or archiving) the compressed footage with Snow Leopard?
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4 Replies
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[Pascale Neuschafer] ” zipping”
By zipping you may get a file some 40% smaller, but will still be bigger than your target size.
I don’t understand why a festival is requesting Uncompress files.
rafael -
Also, remember that all “uncompressed” video file are not created equal … is it 8-bit, 10-bit and did they specify codecs they’ll accept? If you can’t get it small enough to fit on a dual-layer DVD (about 8.5 Gb), you may have to consider either a fairly long digital transfer (FTP, etc.), if they even offer that option, or buying something like a 10-20 Gb flash drive to mail in. In any case, keep in mind it takes time to unzip or upload/download large files and you generally want to make accessing your entry as easy as possible for a festival that’s receiving hundreds or thousands of submissions.
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Dear Rafael and David,
Thanks for the feedback. I don’t know why the have specified uncompressed, because I have a lot of graphics which are not going to look so great anymore.
David, I have compressed it to 8-bit, the specification only said uncompressed quicktime. So I think my only option is going to be to print it to betacam tape. (It’s a 25 minute long documentary shot in SD)
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[Pascale Neuschafer]
“… specified uncompressed … I have a lot of graphics which are not going to look so great anymore.”I’m not sure what you mean here … graphics look great in any uncompressed codec since they’re, well, uncompressed.
[Pascale Neuschafer] “I have compressed it to 8-bit, the specification only said uncompressed quicktime. So I think my only option is going to be to print it to betacam tape.”
If they specified “uncompressed QuickTime”, they may not accept BetaSP tapes since a QuickTime file can’t go on a tape … you can master to tape a sequence of video that’s using an uncompressed 8-bit codec, but you can’t put a QuickTime file on a tape. So, the fact that they specified “QuickTime” sounds very much like they’re wanting a digital file.
They must have mentioned something about how they’ll accept the “uncompressed QuickTime” files they specifically ask for … DVD, hard drive, FTP, etc.? If so, you need to mention that part of the specifications to get full and accurate answers about the options.
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