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Emailing full video file for client
I have a 60 second spot that a client would like me to send them via YOUSENDIT.com. They want to be able to take that spot and add to it. So they want the best quality possible.
I’ve had people send me quick times or mpg fils before that when I download they are great quality.
How would I do this? What format would you use? The largest file I can send on Yousendit will be 100 MB. Thanks much.
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I think your best bet is to send them a H.264 version of your QT export. Take your full resolution file into Compressor and just apply the stock “H.264” preset and you should end up with something that’s very small and of great quality. It will be way under the 100 meg mark and have the same frame resolution and frame rate that the original movie file had.
If you have not exported the sequence yet, the other option is to just send it directly to compressor and use the same preset.
hope this helps.
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By ‘adding to it’, does it mean the client is going to bring it into a post house to do more editing on it?
I’d think the best option is to export the 60s as a Quicktime Movie with Current Settings. But a 60s with DV codec would be ~220MB. Though you could solve that by using https://www.sendspace.com/ [300MB limit for its free service].
Is it possible to pay for a pay-per-use premium YSI service just for this then? $8.99 gets you a 2GB limit. So you can even fit an uncompressed 10-bit Quicktime file in there!
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What’s the source format? For HD, at the moment I’m liking MPEG Streamclip’s unscaled MPEG4 compression.
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Adding to it means they want to edit it, by supering titles. (They’ve asked me to remove all text from the original).
I don’t think h264 will be the best for them for this purpose. I also don’t want to upgrade yousendit to a monthly $8.99 fee for this one video. Any thoughts/ -
Greg
You still haven’t told us what your source format is, you need to offer up that info so we can folks can assess just how much compression is needed. Additionally remember that you are plainly asking for recommendations for a heavily compressed delivery format … formats that by their nature are not especially suitable for editing after the fact, so whatever you end up sending both you and those receiving the file need to bear in mind that it will almost certainly need to be transcoded to a more suitable edit format. Fwiw H.264 is actually an exceptionally good delivery codec that scales very well so you might not want to dismiss it out of hand. That said, if there are specific delivery restrictions that you’re aware of and haven’t mentioned then it would certainly make sense to share that.
Another thought, if you are constrained by 100MB file restrictions, have you considered delivering as a number of smaller segments in full native quality and having them reassemble at the other end when they do the subtitling?
Cheers
Andy -
Sorry for being so vague. Format is SD 8 bit uncompressed. There are no specific delivery restrictions that I’m aware of. I’m trying to offer them a means of getting them the file quickly over the weekend. Of course I’m aware that the file needs to be compressed for email. But I know I’ve been sent clips as either QT or MPG files and I’ve been able to download them and edit the video as high quality. Thanks Andy.
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Too Andy
In compressor Quicktime 6 at what bandwith do you use?
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Hi Andy,
You always bring interesting things to the forum.
Why the .mp4? For PC QT compatibility?
What about the re-editability of the files?
Cheers,
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I would send them an image sequence. A tiff, targa or png sequence would retain the quality of the original, but each file would be only a couple of MB each. Send the sound as a separate aiff or wav file.
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Sending an SD image sequence would mean close to a 100 MB per second file size. The original poster was looking for something far smaller.
I’d send something too large for their file size restrictions myself, if it was to be modified (cleanly) after transfer, though…
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