Bryan Roberts
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They’re renting the bay and I’m walking once I deliver an uncompressed quicktime for them to CC. I’m used to steering clear of non standard plugins anyways as I regularly send projects to post houses who have a mirror drive of a projects media. This one I just have to be on location cutting.
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Oliver Peters = my personal Jesus. That’s an amazing tip. Anything to save more clicks and wrist moves is amazing. Thank you sir.
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Ha! You’re right. That’s great. I just updated yesterday to 2015.1 (2015.2 doesn’t show up in my creative cloud app even right now) but I found the manual update to 2015.2 and now it’s back to normal. Thanks! 🙂
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Thanks all. Well it was a crazy ride to the solution. Yes, I tried all of your suggestions, I tried all those programs. I tried both Avid MC 8.3 and 8.4, I had downloaded all AMA plugins, nothing worked. I sent the file to a friend who runs a post house in LA and he was able to get it to work on his system using MC 8.3 but not 8.4 using AMA. My system it wouldn’t work on however. I started getting desperate as I didn’t feel like driving to his place and converting a ton of footage so I tried one of those dicey seeming programs online, the “Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac”. Low and behold the free trial worked with a watermark so I purchased the program. Cannot believe that was the only solution but hey, it worked. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
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Hi Adriano,
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post, shows you guys must be pretty serious about the rollout. I’ll keep a close eye on Hightail spaces. If the upload/processing speeds remain high and login requirements are resolved, it seems like a wonderful fit for my needs and I bet a lot of other freelance editors. Again, if one of your big target audiences is freelance editors, our clients often don’t have the time or interest in learning a new collaboration tool, they generally just want a TC burn in and some prefer to do all notes over the phone rather than even an email. It’s not the creative production companies or agencies, it’s always when dealing with a Brand, network or Studio that we encounter ancient hardware or a general lack of interest in trying any new tech. However, a slick / professional interface and professional sharing tools like password protection, download expiration dates along with the ability to implement those great sharing tools with more adventurous clients would be wonderful to have in one place.
Best,
Bryan
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Hi Tim, Dropbox uses flash to load their video player which automatically is used when you send a public link to a client to a video file. I deal with all sorts of clients and it seems the further up the totem pole you get, the more propensity there is to not understand how to download a file and play it (no, seriously). It’s been a big problem with any studio head folks or any brand people for commercials etc. Not only can they not handle figuring out how to download a file and then play it in quicktime, or itunes or just double click it (many of them are on outdated PC systems) but their IT departments can’t figure it out either. They want to click a link and have a file start to play an they generally don’t have the time to wait even a minute for something to download so it needs to be almost instantaneous. So I was looking at options which could start automatically streaming a file like it does when they click on a quicktime I’ve sent them on my website server. Dropbox uses flash for their in built video player and I’m finding in my tests that it trips up most newer Macs since Apple went on the whole anti flash campaign, flash is blocked by default. Google drive must use HTML5 for Macs as it doesn’t seem to give newer macs any issue when pulling up their file to view. Both Dropbox and Google Drive offer the ability to download that file for my savier clients but again, most just want to click a link and start watching right away.
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In the FAQ it says Spaces Pro is $15/mo. Not bad… if it didn’t require clients to sign up for an account before they can view a file. Ugh.
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I’ve heard GoDaddy can be slow with upload and download speeds since it’s more value oriented… or perhaps that’s just off base. I don’t have any personal experience with them but yeah, 2.49 a month is pretty sweet. $10/mo I can swing though too. Without 3 kids in tow, I’d jump all over the $25/mo plan at Frameio but with bills and mouths to feed a factor more than ever, I’d like to keep it a lower monthly expense.
I just read the nail in the coffin for Hightail Spaces. On their Vimeo video which has comments under it, it appears people found out that if you send a link to a client who isn’t a member of Hightail Spaces, it requires them to sign up for a free account in order to even view the files. A support member of Hightail Spaces confirms this and makes it sound like this is going to be something permanent that they as a team had already discussed. That does it for me, Hightail Spaces is out.
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Thanks guys, these all look very interesting.
I ran a test with DropBox just to make sure it wouldn’t work for me as their pricing along with Google Drive is very enticing. So I uploaded a cut to Dropbox and just wanted to send a share link and sent one to my wife’s Macbook Air which she hasn’t used Dropbox on. Sure enough I ran into lots of annoyances that kill Dropbox for me. First off, they present you with a screen that appears like you must sign up just to watch the files. Execs would despise that. Second, after realizing I could x the box and still access the file, I clicked the play icon in the middle of the frame grab to have it preview play in my browser (I wanted to see how their conversion looked). Sure enough, my wife’s macbook air has flash autoblocked on all new sites. Click that pop up window to tell it to allow and remember… then sure enough, the video still wont play. I refresh the page and then even try re-clicking the link and it STILL won’t play. This is exactly why Dropbox doesn’t work for lots of video editors, it makes you jump through SO many hoops just to send a file share link to a client to watch. On the other hand, I did the same test with Google Drive and the link I sent opened right up on the Macbook air. No google branding, just a dark grey screen with the video preview and a download link option at the top. Their conversion was ok, not perfect but not offensive. The BIG thing I wish Google Drive had which almost all these other services seem to easily implement is password protection for a folder or file.
Frame.io looks awesome, love the hoverscrub ala Premiere over the preview windows, version comparison seems cool. It is pricier than Dropbox or Google Drive at $25/mo for the plan I’d need (over twice the cost for 1/20th the space) and since I’m a lone freelancer, $10/mo is pretty enticing for 1TB.
Hightail Spaces looks very cool also. The thing that scares me off of HighTail is I’ve been hearing more and more horror stories of slow client download speeds. I’m only assuming they’re using their same servers for the two services so I worry the same issues would apply, especially if it’s in Beta as they say on the site.
Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Thanks guys. Lots of amazing options here.
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Thanks Vince…
My hosting company is fine with the clips on my website for my reels etc. and my traffic, they don’t want me hosting cuts to shows and bigger files anymore. Problem with Vimeo / Youtube: First off, they recompress an already compressed file. I need to be able to send out a quicktime link that maintains the exact quality as what I’m sending. This way if I’m sending out a 20 minute long cut to a show, I could be uploading a much smaller file that’s already been compressed than say one that was maximized for Vimeo streaming. Second, bigger clients strongly frown on youtube and Vimeo. They just don’t appear professional. Finally, lots of times I need to keep things frame accurate to say 23.98 if someone is pulling a file into ProTools or a color session. Again because Vimeo / Youtube recompress your files, this would be very problematic.
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