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7gig over FTP with DSL is it possible
Hi i have a client that wants a two hour rough cut loaded on their FTP site. The cut is done in DVCPRO HD. He wants it DV quality wich will make the file size close to 8gigs. Will this large file be able to upload to an FTP and download. How long will it take?
Thanks,
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It would be much much faster to FedEx the media on DVDs or a FireWire drive.
— Wes Plate
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Sean,
Your client is dreaming. The odds of the entire 8gb file making it across without a glitch in the Internet is very low. Businesses who transmit data streams of that size use sophisticated download managers that have error checking and that enable resumption of a partial download after a disconnect. You might with luck be able to find a good freeware download manager, but the entire process, upload and download will probably take two days.
Your best bet would be to stream a Windows Media File to him. You can do a relatively large screensize and nice quality and he doesn’t have to wait for a download. Plus, WMV is really simple to stream. Google “ASX files” and check it out.
DRW
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I disagree with these guys. You can totally do that as long as you split it into multiple files using Stuffit or something similar. This will prevent errors as well as check for them on the other end. Plus if something goes wrong or there is an error, you don’t have to start over from scratch. And depending on your connection speed it may not take that long at all. Just rough guessing, it shouldn’t take more than 12 hours with a 1mbps upstream. So you could let it rip overnight.
Obviously FedEx would be a more preferred solution 9 times out of 10, but I’m sure you’re smart enough to have thought that already. I get it. With the weekend coming up, FedEx might not be the best solution. Just make sure the FTP server can hold that much space, and make sure the client knows what he or she is getting into and has the software to unarchive it.
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I’m sure Sean means well.
How fast is your DSL upload speed? I have a 1.5Mb/s speed here in my office, which means I upload 1MB in about 5.5 seconds. If I was to upload 7GB it would take me about 38,500 seconds, which is about 642 minutes, which is less than eleven hours. All in a perfect world where the connection speed maintains its max.
But will the connection survive? Like the another poster wrote, probably not.
How fast is your upload speed? I believe 768MB/sec is more common, so if you had that speed you would have to At Least double the numbers above.
— Wes Plate
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I think your math is a little off, wouldn’t 2 hours of dv material be about 23 gigs?
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Tim,
Absolutely correct. For some reason we were all basing our responses on the author’s 8gb calculation. There is no doubt about it, 2 hours at DV quality would be between 23 and 26 gigs, making the entire internet upload/download thing even more ridiculous.
DRW
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Hopefully the client has Final Cut pro. And if he does, then here’s an option:
Make a complete copy of all the media being used. Make sure that you have exact duplicates, then ship a copy of the media to the client via Fed Ex or other carrier.
When you get the rough cut done, just email a copy of the project. It’ll connect to the client’s copy of the media and he can watch it in full res.
The same can be done whenever a change is made or even when the project is color corrected and graded. Just a few megs of project data needs to be transmitted.
Dean Sensui — http://www.HawaiiGoesFishing.com
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