Transferring Big Files

[rusty]

I've just about finished the 6 month long marathon of making my daughter's grad video. Only 20 minutes long with video, slide shows, etc. but fiddly (including poring over boxs of old still photos and scanning them, pounding through my digital photos, and then resizing everything, looking at the old video and picking out just the right clips, etc. - you all know the drill). I had a ball, the product is great and boy, do I ever know how to keyframe now! I'll post the opening 2 minute sequence that includes the K - 12 morph in the next day or so.

Anyway, part of it was getting about 35 different people to send me several seconds of video congratulations that I have edited together. Most people have a digital still camera that takes video, so that was fine, but the resulting files were between 12 and 65 MB's which is too large for many ISP's. Luckily I discovered: http://www.transferbigfiles.com and it is fantastic. For free, people could upload a file (up to 1 GB) to the site which sent me an e-mail with a link to the file that I just downloaded in a few seconds. Even my dad was able to send me a clip of my 99 year old grandmother with no difficulty. About half a dozen people from across the country and as far away as New Zealand used it.

They also offer a reasonable subscription for more advanced functionality, but for getting the odd large file moved without access to your own ftp site, this seems to work like a charm.

[Steve Grisetti]

That's a great find, Rusty! Thanks for the tip.

And I'm glad your big, epic project turned out so satisfying for all involved!

[momoffduty]

Russ, looking forward to seeing your hard work. I'm sure your daughter will love it. And thanks for the tip on sending large files. Vimeo is great for transfers too. A basic user has 1 week from upload before the source file is converted and a Plus user no time limit. Private album available too.

I've got a morphing project coming up this Fall and may ask for your expert help. Haven't used Fantamorph in a long time.

[rusty]

I don't know about expert Cheryl...servicable, maybe! Maybe my recollection is more recent. It is a pretty cool program though.

[sidd finch]

Sounds like a great find. Also Yahoo's IM (instant messenger) lets you IM up to 2GB at a time. Of course each person must have Yahoo IM but it is free. I use this to transfer huge video files all the time.

Sidd

[rusty]

I'm glad your big, epic project turned out so satisfying for all involved!

Steve, I have to say that I referred to your Premiere Elements 7 book numerous times...I still have the DVD authoring/menuing to do before "delivery" on convocation day next Friday so I expect I'll have your DVDAS book by my side throughout that too. Thank you for these great resources. I have your Premiere Elements Tips and Tricks too and can't wait to do a bit more experimenting.

It has been a little over a year and a half since I bought my Quad core computer and PE7/PSE7 - at that time, I didn't know .avi from .m2ts, AVCHD from HD, or any of the software from Audacity to ImgBurn, Fantamorph to WinDV, let alone how to capture video, resize a photo, or edit the simplest project. Nor did I know about external SATA drives, keeping the OS and programs only on the system drive, printable DVD's, backing up properly or cloning a hard drive (to name just a couple!). I started with a single 1 TB drive and now have a 1 TB and a 1.5 TB internal drive, an external 1.5 SATA drive and an external 2TB USB back-up drive, two 23 inch monitors, a scanner and a photo/DVD printer. My office looks like a production studio - okay, it IS a production studio! It is mind boggling what one can learn in a relatively short time when one sets one's mind to it and I have learned the most, and gained the most inspiration, from Muvipix. It is the best $69 I ever spent, period. I now have a creative hobby that I love that didn't exist for me all that long ago. What a community. Thanks!!

[Steve Grisetti]

Those words mean more to us than you can know, Rusty!

Muvipix has always been a labor of love for us, and it's wonderful to hear that it's helping people.

Thank you so much for your wonderful success story! And do let us know if you have any questions at all.

[Chuck Engels]

Thanks Rusty, you made my day