getting client approvals

[Tom Meegan]

The creators of xprove and syncvue are working together now. It will be interesting to see what they come up with…

https://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/briefingroom/2007/04/17/intelligent-gadgets-and-xprove-form-strategic-alliance/

[Craig Loco]

I worked for years at a company called Adstream which delivers to all the TV stations worldwide and they also have a brilliant Work in progress tool – contact andy Jones andy@adstream.com for info ..

Hope this helps !!!

[Ed Dooley]

Thanks Tom,
I think the accumulated feedback is probably the best feature, that I don’t have using my own site. As for cost for a small company, hosting companies have drastcally changed storage and transfer volume. My provider 1&1, a pretty large provider, gives me (for $.50 less a month than the $7.95 you mentioned), 250 gigs of storage (that’s a bit more than 5 gigs), 2,500 gigs per month of transfer, 25 FTP accounts, 2,500 e-mail accounts (which I don’t use), 200 sub domains, etc. etc. That’s enough to run a fairly large company, all for $7.49 per month, and they serve my video very nicely too.
Ed

https://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hosting;jsessionid=A41CC15154DB17EFF308ECAC88F87C58.TC61b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static

[Tom Meegan] “xprove has the built in ability to manage access and accumulate feedback from many collaborators. The comments are attached to the file, so each person can see the feedback that has already been left right next to the video. You may have clients that do not have to run things through several divisions for approval, but I do, and xprove is perfect. Through access management, you can carefully guide a video through several work groups who all need to give approval separately.
………..
box.net allows for a huge amount of storage for not much money. Those of us who have sites we are paying for as a small business, not part of a larger company, may find that $7.95/month for 5 Gb of on line storage is pretty amazing. They also have some nice functionality built into their service, and are adding more all the time.”

[Tom Meegan]

Ed,

I googled a bit but couldn’t come up with anything like 250 gigs of online storage for $7.49/month. Do you have a link that quotes that rate?

It was good of you to clear up that 250 is a larger number than 5. Might have missed that.

;->

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

Sorry Ed,

Missed the link you included. Impressive!

Tom

[Ed Dooley]

We had in-house servers for years, but my IT guy moved to France, so I looked around for hosts that could serve video. I got burned by one host that said they had the bandwidth, but didn’t, and another in the UK that went out of business within a couple months of me signing on. So I looked much more carefully the next time! 1&1 seemed to have a good reputation, and they serve our videos without a hiccup. I’m suprised that they can say 250gigs for $7.50 a month. I think they must assume that no one will really use that much
so it’s a marketing tool. Same with 2,500 e-mail accounts, etc.
Ed

[Tom Meegan]

I can imagine using all 250 gigs of storage, but 2,500 email accounts