Hiyah V! Sounds awesome! Just visited the site you gave .. looks awesome too!

I'm presuming that the "host" pc would have to be ON all the time, to allow a third party to access the files - yeah? The yearly pricing structure looks inviting, but I'm a bit concerned about leaving an open line to my pc - yeah?

Yes, mostly you understood what I was after. I'm still wanting a "server" out there in webland to allow me to "post" a file and have a selected clent/colleague download it from there - yeah?

Regards,

Grazie

At first I thought this might be ideal for you Grazie:
Sony might do it for you!>

You need to be in the US to enjoy this. Or have a credit card that is authorised on a US postal address. How stupifying is that?

128MB should be quite a few clips worth. You might even get it for free if you instead of contracting up buy the (cut down Vegas) ScreenBlast consumer product....

Perhaps do the trial but consider what name to use for the trial in case you get taken through this again if you buy Screenblast.

Other sites tend to give public access and it costs you for how often the client views your media (after so many MB or GB of transfer). http://www.instawatch.com are good for that type. If you publish to WMV, using the individually contracted DRM suite from MicroSoft. You can sign your WMVs so nobody other than the owner of a certificate or certificated-hint-file (.asx) can watch your clip. So you send them an email or they send you their Verisign certificate etc, as part of the arrangements.

You got it, the password protection on something like Screenblast is quickest and probably the most suitable for dailies etc.


I think Matrox offer a similar service for their prosumer NLE accelerator card owners, but not for their "consumer" graphics card owners. Completely the opposite market strategy to Sony.

30 seconds can quite comfortably fit into a megabyte in a WMV.
If you have broadband-always-on, then a DIY method might suit you, subject to the terms of use if your bandwidth then goes noticably high. Shame to do that if it doesn't serve any other web needs too.

RB - Thanks for that. Lots to consider here.

Grazie

Hi Grazie I use a bit of software called VNC, it is free and allows acces to your or other PC at anytime all you need to know is the IP address. You get that by putting you mouse over the VNC icon. You can acces you PC from any Explorer using yor password.
Get it here fro XP , windows...
http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/3.3.7-vncform.cgi

Back to Grazie wanting to post a file for a client...

Why not just use your website.

I do this all the time for various clients - I make a folder, upload the video file and send them the link. I just finished one for the Nation magazine, if you'd like to take a peek - it won't be up for too long, though.
www.interpubco.com/Nation
(I like the edit 4 version better than the one they ended up using... but that's show biz - and they definitely had their reasons - o btw - all done with Vegas, of course.

Is there anything wrong with this technique?? Am I inadvertantly asking for a drubbing???

v.

vicmilt: that presumes that folks have a website.

Kellsie, too kind. Vicmilt you'll get no drubbing from me, good friend. You HAVE underlined the sorry fact that I haven't bit the bullet and created a website for myself before now. I think I've done most non-programming stuff an end user can do. Excel: Formulas, consolidation sheets, muti-budget heads and so on; too many Word documents to mention; Used Publisher to produce many published docs for local authorities; I've even created relational databases - in MS-DOS - PLUS, all the stuff I'm now doing in DV/Vegas/Videography . . . . but, but, but . . I still haven't produced my own website; - sad init!?! :-(

For some reason this last link in the chain, scares the pants off me. Somebody should really take me in hand - honest!

No Vicmilt, you aint being nasty, I'm just a woozy when it comes to this side of things . . .

So, back to where I am . . .

Grazie

Grazie, take a look at http://www.100megsfree.com/

They let you create a free website with up to 100MB of storage space. That should be enough for quite a bit of compressed clips. They do have a few restrictions and there will be banner ads on your pages. Quote from their FAQ: "We believe in allowing our members to build any type of page that they see fit. Both business and personal sites are allowed. We do ban the following types of sites: Adult material, violence, racism, warez, mp3, emulators, or appz sites. Any sites with unsuitable content will be immediately removed without warning. Also we do not allow our members to store files that are used on other webpages."

So, to comply with their regulations you'd probably have to create extremely simple HTML files for each video file you upload that would include the video file as a clickable link. We're talking nothing more fancy than this:




And you could probably go even simpler than that. Name this .html file with your client's name and shove it in some out of the way directory. Email the URL to the client and they only have to click the link to retrieve their file. No one would be able to see anyone else's files unless they just happen to guess the file name, so make 'em a little long and weird. It's not like the client will have to type them since they'll just click the link you give 'em anyway.

You'll need what's called an FTP program to send the files to the website. I highly recommend WS-FTP LE which is available at http://www.tucows.com. ... just search for ws-ftp and it will come right up. It's free for noncommercial/home use, or you can be a good doobie and pay the few bucks to register a copy. This software shows your own hard drive in a window on the left of the screen and the website's storage space on the right side. Double-click the file name and it gets copied to the other window. Slick as that!

Please feel free to ask if anything's unclear or scares ya! ;)

I could be wrong, perhaps I'm not understanding all this, but wouldn't an ftp account accomplish what Grazie's after?

J--

VC you are correct!

Kellsie what WOULD I do without yah! Yer a Blinding Bloke - and Nah mistake Matey!

This is exactly what I should be looking at. I just wanna share me rough drafts with a colleague and maybe email a "selected" client an option to view stuff. I suppose I could then delete one client's work and offer up other stuff - yeah?

I just louuuve this forum!!

Off to make a cuppa tea . . . .

Grazie