emailing videos

I need to email 5 minute videos (music and moving stills) for display on a fairly large screen. Mpeg4 is way too low a resolution. Recommendations? Thanks.

"E-mail" and "large screen" don't go together at all.

At the very least, use an FTP site and send a high-data-rate, large-frame H.264. But if you're going to play it on a large screen, then you should send data discs, tapes, or at the very least video DVDs.


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i use You Send It for things like this,
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or we pop the files onto a "Rugged" drive, and send it in the post
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nick

If your file size is below 7gigs. then you could send a flash drive. I have seen flash drives at 8gigs and i am sure there are some 16g out there.

the question is does your client have the means to :

1. burn a dvd?
2. accept the qt - self contained movie as an output file ( higher quality )?
3. convert to the format they need?

i would suggest asking if they would like a dvd thats ready to play in any dvd player to be displayed on any screen. Then if they say yes you can just send them a dvd.

you can use chapters to separate the 5min segments.

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>If your file size is below 7gigs.

Whoa... Be careful with that, especially if you're sending them a drive. If they are on a PC, format it to FAT32, and make sure the file size is under 4 gigs (use H.264 as Derek mentioned). Otherwise, they need to be running a mac or have macdrive installed.

Whichever format you send, make sure that your client has the means to play it. Eg. mov/h.264 (they need Quicktime 7).



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Many email systems will not let you post any file over a certain limit. I think Yahoo Mail is 100M.

And yes, H.264 takes a million years to encode, but will produce an excellent, small video--in HiDef if needed.

Koz

How about if you are in a tight deadline and overnighting a DVD isn't fast enough? What do you recommend?

We had one instance where we tried doing it to a Windows Media file, but the quality wasn't high enough. I had been using 5 Mb as the limit to what can be emailed...I know some corporations' email systems won't do more than 5...what have you guys found to be acceptable? I ended up just putting it on YouTube, but would rather have something a bit more private, that is still relatively fast to do.

Thanks!
Casey

exposureroom.com, mediafire.com

You can upload up to 720p. Use h.264 at 3000 mbps.

Click on the link below to see what it looks like.

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Thanks for all the great info. Lots for me to get up to speed on.

in the future try having a hidden web page on your that you can send a link to your client so they can see the video. then all you have to figure out is a formula for encodes and what viewing software they have.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"