Scotty T Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 What options are out there to email demos large in file size? What are some techniques? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 depends how big your/their server is. if we have large stuff to email we'll generally FTP it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 what do you mean by large? ...if a file is above 5 megs in size, then do not email it. you will only piss off your client, and possible wreak havoc on their network. if you havn't already, invest in a website, and post file there, or set up a ftp site there. then email them a link, or set up an account for your client to retreive the information. also, trading files via the web based file sharing service(s) out there, rapid share, and things like that, are highly unproffesional. there are proffesional versions of this service also, but they cost more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty T Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 Ok. Tell me this, what is a average size of most demos(stills and walkthroughs) done by experienced designers? The last I done consisted of just stills edited in Adobe premier for a demo and the file hit 300 megs(Its was allot of JPGS). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I would target Jpeg compression to 300 to 500k. Buy compression software like Fireworks, or ImageReady to get the best quality with smaller file sizes. ....what is your compression method for video? ..Quicktime h.264, Windows Media, or (in some cases) Divx. Offer the best compression compared to file size. I don't know a lot about Flash video. It used to be based on Sorenson, but I think they developed their own codec now. Lately I have been favoring Quicktime h.264. imo, you should offer 2 versions for download. One that is around 50 megs, and one that is 90 to 130 megs. ...and even that is generous. A feature length film can be compressed to fit on a CD, and still look nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty T Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 ....what is your compression method for video? I am just getting into the do and donts of video editing so the answer to your question is I am figuring that out. Most of my scenes are rendered to quicktime from max at 10 to 12 sec using Sorenson. Then I just place them into Adobe Premier. Thats as far as I got to this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 If I'm understanding you correctly, then you would be better doing your renders to a non-lossy codec, editing those in Premiere and then compressing the whole demo to one compact file. Taking in a compressed Sorenson, editing it and then compressing the edit to something else would be dropping quality.... compressing compressed footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 If I'm understanding you correctly, then you would be better doing your renders to a non-lossy codec, editing those in Premiere and then compressing the whole demo to one compact file. Taking in a compressed Sorenson, editing it and then compressing the edit to something else would be dropping quality.... compressing compressed footage. correct.. i should have mentioned that. never ever ever compress your footage before you create your final footage. never ever. did i say never ever? ...the problem comes with a standard machine handiling large files and such. a lot of times they cannot push through that much information without lagging. a work around for this is creating proxy files that temporarily replace the final footage. they allow you to do your editing with compressed lossy files, and then simply click a button to switch to the uncompressed footage. aftereffects has them by default, you could probably do them manually iif only working with premiere. ...or, sometimes i work with .mov's compressed with the "animation" codec at 100%, which is a lossless codec. the files will be about 30-50% of the uncompressed size, meaning your machine might be able to work with them realtime. ....also, beyond just loosing quality when compressing and recompressing footage, it also makes your file size grow because there is more noise and artifacts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylEmon Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 i have worked with this quite a bit. I did tv spots at the begining of my career and we would often have to send the whole spot, with sound, to the client for review. Usually we used FTP, but in a few cases email was the only choice. I use Squeeze to compress video files. you definitly want to render it all together as one mov(animation codec is best, as stated above). import that file into squeeze. they have multiple web settings to output, but it will decrease the resolution (720 X 480 becomes 360 X 480, etc.). In my experience, final copies are always put on tape or DVD. so you can always send that separetly. EDIT: size will vary based on length and music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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