How to e mail video

bluespruce wrote on 5/20/2008, 5:15 PM

Hi evryone,
I am looking for advice on how to e mail video's from vegas pro 8.
i have tried sending it to myself for a test ,but when i open it i have the whole softwae program . I just want to send the video. I have looked under help but have had no luck with finding any information.
i would appreciate your help. thanks for everyones help in the past

John B

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 5/20/2008, 5:42 PM

Render your project as Windows Media Video 9, 320x240, 512KBS. That keeps it a nice size for emailing (assuming its short) and at a decent quality.

ushere wrote on 5/20/2008, 7:03 PM

or mp4

bluespruce wrote on 5/20/2008, 7:13 PM

Thanks ,I will give it a try
John

bluespruce wrote on 5/20/2008, 7:13 PM

thanks,
John

jetdv wrote on 5/20/2008, 8:34 PM

Render as appropriate for the web, upload to your website, e-mail a LINK to the other person. I hate receiving multi-meg e-mails and would rather receive a link I can download from at my leisure.

johnmeyer wrote on 5/20/2008, 11:49 PM

I heartily second what Ed (jetdv) just said: It is terrible "netiquette" to burden someone's email with a large attachment. Even small video files are many megabytes. Some email servers won't pass attachments larger than 10 MB.

My solution is to use a free ftp server, such as YouSentIt. You just upload to that site, and then send the link to your email recipient. If they decide that actually don't want the file, or if they are trying to retrieve their email from some remote location in Russia and are paying for their access by the megabyte, they can choose to wait to retrieve your file until they have faster and/or cheaper access.

My rule of thumb is that if the file is over a megabyte, I send it this way.

Jessariah67 wrote on 5/21/2008, 8:46 PM

I third Ed (and second John). If you've got a website - especially these days where they give you lots of server space - upload to a dedicated directory and send links via email. If you want to protect the contents of the directory, and your server doesn't have access safeguards, just drop an index.html file with an error message in the directory as well.

If you need an index.html file, open Notepad and paste the below (beginning with < html >) into it. Change the "XXX@XXX.com" to your email address. Save as "index.html" (include the extension) and upload it to your directory. That way, nobody will be looking at something they shouldn't be unless they know the exact file names of the content.

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
You Are Not Allowed Access To This Directory.<p>
Please <a href="mailto:XXX@XXXX.com">Email Us</a> With Your Request
</body>
</html>

Chienworks wrote on 5/22/2008, 4:20 AM

Whew, there's a lotta cruft in that html. Here's the same thing much more straight forward:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
You Are Not Allowed Access To This Directory.<p>
Please <a href="mailto:XXX@XXXX.com">Email Us</a> With Your Request
</body>
</html>

Your plain unmarked text in the <head> section could throw a lot of browsers for a loop.

Jessariah67 wrote on 5/22/2008, 8:54 AM

Kelly - what are you talking about?

; )

I'm not a code person - just put it together in GoLive (which is notorious for adding unecessary lines). The breaks were to make it a bit more centered is all...

K

Chienworks wrote on 5/22/2008, 10:19 AM

I occasionally get asked to fix people's webpages for them. Often i'll charge $30/hour for regular html work, or $300/hour if they created the page in Microsoft's Front Page. Yes, it really is *that* much more difficult to work on Front Page code. *whew*