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Sending video through the internet
I’m not really sure if this is even necessarily a FCP issue but I’ll throw this question out there anyway. I need to send my final edited version of something through the internet to someone. I’ve only ever dealt with hard copies before (data discs and DVD’s). I found this website called “https://www.sendmyfiles.com”. As far as I know it is basically like an online “hard drive” if you will, where you upload your file and then you can send an e-mail to someone that gives them a link to download it. So anyway to test it out I uploaded the video and then sent the link to myself on another computer. When I downloaded it and played it I noticed the quality had gone way down hill, which is confusing because as far as I know this whole process is just transferring data and nothing is being tampered with. Like I said I don’t know if this even has anything to do with FCP or if it is purely an issue with this website I’m using to send my file. Any help?
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I use MobileMe and is work great! iDisk has the same kind of “sharing” method and I never have issues. Plus, it has SO many other features! Check it out
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An FTP service, like yousendit.com is what I use at home, there is a free version with a size limit, then you pay more to send bigger files.
As you say, the data should have been identical, so I’m wondering how you watched it on this “other computer”, and if it was using the right codec to play back, correct frame size, no imag zoom or re-scaling, and so forth.
Could be the file you sent IS perfectly fine, but the playback setup on the receiving machine is not.
Could also be that it only looked fine on your edit system because your own monitoring is out of whack and all you did was adjust until it looked good to you at home base but now it is out of whack for everyone else. Going to have to do more detective work to figure out where the problem really is.
First make another, short test piece, send that thru, take note of all settings coming and going. Work the problem from there, tracing where the changes really happen.
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Mark,
After reading your post I played it using I-tunes instead of Quicktime (which is my computers default player for .mov)and the quality was perfect. So this is an issue with my quicktime player? Never had this happen to me before…. -
I figured out the problem, it was a setting with my quicktime player. I fixed it and it plays beautifully now, thanks guys!
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