online media storage question
by Leonora Fishbein
on
Dec 15, 2008 at 10:17:01 pm
Hello,
I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this question, however since it is related to web streaming here goes. I am looking for a solution to transfer large raw HD footage onto a web server so that it can be accessed remotely for the purposes of editing. The footage would need to be transferred uncompressed and in the same format it was transferred from tape. Can anyone provide suggestions or point me in the right direction as to where I can research this information please?
Re: online media storage question by Leonora Fishbein on Dec 16, 2008 at 2:41:17 am
thanks for the advice. Unfortunately though, my editors are out of the country, so I am trying to find an economical way to do this and if for any reason the drive gets damaged in shipping...oh my!! Yes I know that FTP is slow. I am hoping for a miracle here and to find a way that I can upload the raw footage and that my editors can access at low to no cost. Unfortunately money has to be a major factor in this economy and I am counting every cent!! If you or anyone else has any ideas or has heard of other sites that can do this at a faster rate, please let me know. It would be so much appreciated...
Re: online media storage question by mike velte on Dec 16, 2008 at 12:15:30 pm
Most cable connections are asymmetrical; upload speed is typically 10% of download speed. It would take days to upload HD footage and one blip would foul things up.
Maybe you could find a local host on a trunk line...take your external hard drive to them and they could put it on your account for download by the editor.
Re: online media storage question by Brett Mertens on Jan 10, 2009 at 9:35:11 pm
I think you are going to have to compress it to make the transfer time reasonable. HD is just to big for this type of transfer to be practical on the Interwebs.
