Sending large fils over the net. Film 50 min

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I like Dropbox. The pro accounts start at 100gigs and I feel that the transfer is more robust because of the software in comparison to something basic like an FTP program.

Granted, the security isn’t as air tight as some dedicated services or VPN’s that studios use, but for your average indie film I’d say it’s fine if you throw it into a password protected zip file.

You could also, if you’re tech savvy, use something like Filezilla Server to allow FTP access to a folder on your computer and have the person in the US log in and grab it from there.

Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
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[Joseph W. bourke]

I’m with Angelo on this one. I’ve had a 100GB Dropbox account for a couple of years now, and the only time I have to work around it is when the client has a slow connection, the file is huge, and they need the job overnight. In that case I send it on a portable drive.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Erik Freid]

You would need to define “large file” all the services like Dropbox, box.net, yousendit, all have a 2 GB file size limit. If you 50 min movie is larger you would need something like FTP which if set up correctly can do 4-5 GB reliably (larger can be done but not reliable) or if larger than that UDP and file acceleration which file size makes no difference.

Or of course a hard drive or thumb drive via mail is always easy and reliable.

Erik

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

Erik, you may want to revisit Dropbox. You may be limited on space in general with their free accounts, but the Pro accounts have no such file size limitation as long as you have the space available. I regularly send zip files of retouched images to clients that are 4-6 gigs or more.

Angelo Lorenzo
Fallen Empire Digital Production Services – Los Angeles
RED transcoding, on-set DIT, and RED Epic rental services
Fallen Empire – The Blog
A blog dedicated to filmmaking, the RED workflow, and DIT tips and tricks

[Erik Freid]

thanks aAngelo, I actually use DB for documents all the time, maybe I will see how long a 4 GB file takes to sync

Erik Freid | MediaSilo, Inc
207 South Street | Third Floor | Boston, MA 02111
t. 617.423.6200, m. 617.306.8632, f. 617.507.8577
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[Erik Freid]

Hi Angelo,

I tired it, it took about 5 hours for a 7.5 GB file, up and another 4.5 hours down. so it worked but very slow average 285KB/sec. Using my service it took 2 hours up and 1.5 hours down about 1500KB/sec and that is simple FTP/HTTP.

so it works if you have the time.

Erik Freid | MediaSilo, Inc
207 South Street | Third Floor | Boston, MA 02111
t. 617.423.6200, m. 617.306.8632, f. 617.507.8577
http://www.mediaSilo.com erik@mediasilo.com