ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

12 years, 7 months ago - Marlom Tander

The normal BB is highly aysymettric - I have a 50MB package but FTP upload to my server maxes out at about 0.5.

Basically, yes, they want you to buy the full corporate, and you'll need it at both ends, and if you're in Wales and not in a main city, possibly unavailable at any price.

Next day post? The little USB drives are pretty rugged. Def cheaper than petrol.

12 years, 7 months ago - Yen Rickeard

Paddy's solution is the quickest and cheapest, using Royal Mail 1st class. There are lots of portable hard dirves that will do the trick.
However there is a time delay in getting it to your editor, and you need to consider the run on effects of this.

If you only have a location for a limited amount of time, or a key actor, it is reassuring to hear that the footage is ok for use, and that there is enough coverage to edit well. This means you will have to be doubly sure that you cover everything, and check the footage on the monitor as much as possible.
If you have vital scenes it may be worth the added cost of courriering that day.
Good luck with it,
Yen Rickeard

12 years, 7 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

http://www.box.com and drive.google.com have apps. www.scriptbuddy.com is a place if you just want to do screenplays.

Royal mail looks like an option. Thanks to all who answered so far.

12 years, 7 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

Franz von Toskana: most of the sharing sites allow you to share only some files and keep the others private. I'm not sure how good security is though. Box.com allows collaboration online (for written documents and spreadsheets, using Google docs, and it uses other technology too for organization), so does Script Buddy (if you want screenplays in correct format.) Google Drive is pretty similar to Box.com.

12 years, 7 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

Susi Arnott: The distances for this project are within Wales. Less than a day's drive, but gas prices are expensive. As both ends are relatively rural, I don't know about courier services. That is, if we shoot in Wales (it's indoor, so could possible be shot elsewhere). Future projects may be shot in England, Scotland or even Europe. We might get footage from further still (but not planning to for this project). Any experience in any of these cases would be appreciated.

12 years, 7 months ago - Connor Snedecor

Just downloading more than 36 gigs, even if you have 24 hours to do it, would require a roughly 4-megabit connection at both ends. If you want the editor downloading stuff every night it'll need to be much faster, and constant (no high-traffic dips). If you don't want to pay for a dropbox style site you might instead pay to set up your own FTP. I am unaware of a free way to share that much data daily at those speeds. You might be best off with a stack of fast post envelopes. SD cards are pretty hardy, especially if you send them a case (and something waterproof).

12 years, 7 months ago - Winfield Edson

I tried to upload an 85 gig file from England to the States via dropbox and it was a nightmare. I'll spare the details, but suffice to say it was nearly impossible. I ended up buying a 128 gig usb pen drive (they come as big as 256 gig, maybe even bigger now) and sent it via royal mail. Whilst royal mail was great getting it to New York, it got stuck in customs for 21 days. But your situation is different, so if it was me, I'd opt to mail/courier back and forth. Good luck whatever you decide!

12 years, 7 months ago - Franz von Habsburg FBKS MSc

I agree that Dropbox is great for scripts or small film files but how about streaming? Talking about Dropbox, is there any way of having two on a computer? I need to have one for personal but another for sharing with my cowriter.

12 years, 7 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Courier/special delivery, absolutely. That is a LOT of data to squirt down a wire, if you're looking at 1TB overall, can you just batch the data up for a few days at a time and then send a hard drive in the post? It will be staggeringly cheaper and easier.

12 years, 7 months ago - Susi Arnott

How far are your distances? Same city, same country, same continent - and what are turnaround times like?

12 years, 7 months ago - Vasco de Sousa

Thank you. I was considering paying for the full service, but only if it was fast enough to make it worth it. The free version won't hold enough storage anyway (The max free I've seen is like 5 gb. I'd eventually want at least 700 gb, probably a terrabyte. Each day we'll shoot about 36 gb or more, at least that's what we've done during the trailer.)

So, I am looking at paid solutions.

Great point about the connection speed. It could just be my broadband that's not handling the upload speeds, and I'm not sure there's fast enough broadband in the area (downloading is quick enough, but uploading seems to take awhile.)

FTP is also a good idea. Again, I guess we'll have to find a way to speed up the broadband, which I'm sure is possible via an enterprise set up or something, like a company intranet (which is probably massively expensive to install.)

12 years, 7 months ago - Franz von Habsburg FBKS MSc

Vasco - Can only find Xbox.com - got a link ?