exporting project from Premiere

[Dennis Dean]

I export videos and upload to a streaming server service called iPlayerHD.com From there I can create links for my customers to view and request revisions, if needed. Anyone with the link can watch the video, so your customer can pass it around. The link is not public so it’s not like the video is up on YouTube, thought you could upload to YouTube and password protect. The service is inexpensive. You can also create a download link for your customer.. It’s worthwhile. Don’t bother with jump drives. Too many things can go wrong and you have to get the drive to the customer in the 1st place. iPlayerHD is simple to use. Simple for my clients. They don’t have to create a log-in. Highly recommend it.

[David J. carter]

Thank you Dennis!

I will look into your suggestion.

A little more information for your feedback:

For the finished product, is it best to give a “flash drive” to the customer?

What video format to use for this so that it maintains full performance in playback?

I have not edited for anyone for a couple of years and as I mentioned it was easy for me to install the finished product on a DVD. Now all that has changed and I need to understand what is best for me to do vs the DVD.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Dave

[Dennis Dean]

I would set up a permanent download link. I put things into Drop Box and leave them. You can set Drop Box so that it is cloud only and doesn’t take space on your hard drive. I would not give them any kind of mechanical device. It will only cause you issues later. As for output – a high quality Mp4 with h.264 codec is playable by almost any device. If they need something different they will ask. In Media Encoder I use H.264 Match Source – Adaptive High Bitrate in an mp4 wrapper and it works fine.

[David J. carter]

thank you, Dennis!! How nice of you for giving me direction.

I will do just that!! Thanks again!!

Dave

[Eric Santiago]

Not sure if this was mentioned but from my experience dealing with clients I use h264.

It will play off anything unless its an older USB 2.0 drive and the file is peaked at 4GB.

I always suggest to offload files to their desktop if they are using it for PowerPoint/Live playback.

I also avoid sharing files using OneDrive. Seems to be awful at playback online.

Depends on the situation of course.
Some corporate setups have awful servers and handing off a file to playback on OneDrive is bunk.

And most of the time I send my clients a frame io link for review.

Once its approved then send via any viable cloud option.

[David J. carter]

Thank you Eric!!

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

I posted this earlier, but Bessie’s spam filter caught it:

Hey David,

Echo Dennis on online options.

Some manufacturers make computers where there is only ethernet/wifi connection, or include the ability to dissable USB ports / SD card readers, as these are potential threat to the system. Not only from hackers, but also “disgruntled” employees that wants to download data from the firm.

You may have a similar situation with some web-services, such as dropbox.

In short, you can’t win, except for having multiple options.
Depending on length and subject matter:

PowerPoint will allow you to embed video.
YouTube, unpublished, or Private view.
OneDrive, Google Drive and similar, is as good as DropBox for playing back MP4 videos in browser.
Signiant, Hightail and WeTransfer can also work for transferring files.

There are platforms that hosts learning / courses, with pay-per-view, or perpetual download.

All of the above solutions comes down to how well you know your “consumer”, and what your business model is?

Atb
Mads