RichE 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I've just cut an 18 minute movie showing footage of myself and some mates skiing in Niseko this February. The file, which is in DVD format, will be available next week. Any ideas on how I can make it available online so members of this site can view it. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Cut it up into manageable chunks and send it in to the site, they'll put it in the Vid Gallery part. http://www.snowjapan.com/e/gallery/index-vids.html Link to post Share on other sites
RichE 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 I can't cut it up. It's a single file. We used a professional editing studio to edit nearly two hours of raw footage into an 18 minute package to music. The movie is on a digital betacam master, is currently being turned into DVD and should be ready next week. Having exhausted our budget, we don't have any funds to create manageable chunks or convert sections into mpg format. I was therefore hoping there may be a way to view it as is via this site. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Are you able to put it up on your Aussie ski site? Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 what is the size of the video? You might be better off offering this video to Biglines and seeing if they will put it up. anything over 4mbs over here is pushing the bandwidth too far. the other option is to pay for server time, or offer it up to a niseko company. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 something similar to Landmade yeah. Somebody like NAC or Toryu (sp?) might take it and add it on to what theyve got Link to post Share on other sites
fjef 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Once its on a DVD, it should be easy to rip and reencode into a much smaller file...but if its 18 minutes, it will still be in the 25 to 50MB range depending on the file format. Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 You could use something like bittorrent to distribute it. This saves on bandwidth because people who download it then upload it to other people who want it. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 It shouldn't cost anything to rip it to xvid format where the file size is much smaller. There are freeware programs that do it, and you don't need a flash computer, special knowledge, or lots of time. In DVD (actually mpeg2) format, it's going to be far too big. After that, upload it to a file transmission site like "yousendit". You can also think about reducing the video quality to make the file smaller. No offence, but most people won't care if you're in decent quality or super high quality. They will care about how long it takes to download and how much space it takes up on their computer. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 mr.wiggles have you got any links to an xvid freeware site? Any links for a landmade trailer also? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 This is not a freeware site, but has many good links for downloading cracked versions of Dvix Player and also DVD ripping programs. www.earthreactor.com Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 RichE: Get AutoGK, will do it all magically for you: http://www.autogk.me.uk/ don't need to worry about cracks etc (dubious legality ) Link to post Share on other sites
Siem Reeves 0 Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Quote: can't cut it up. It's a single file. We used a professional editing studio to edit nearly two hours of raw footage into an 18 minute package to music. The movie is on a digital betacam master, is currently being turned into DVD and should be ready next week. so how much does this kind of stuff cost? figuring out how to do it ourselves (dvd authoring etc) took a bit of time to figure out, but it was free... conversely, our stuff probably doesn't look as good as the professionally done stuff Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 if anybody wants me to host movies (of any size) via bittorrent, PM me. (assuming it's legal ) Link to post Share on other sites
RichE 0 Posted June 21, 2005 Author Share Posted June 21, 2005 Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Shimba, We got a good rate through a colleague of mine who owns a video production company. Not sure what it would cost at 'commercial rates'. It would largely depend on the quality level you're aiming for. We speant a day and a bit in the editing suite, but could easily have speant two weeks perfecting it if our budget allowed. That said, the outcome is pretty impressive. The terrain/skiing is not extreme (it was filmed in Niseko afterall). But some of the footage and editing work is pretty cool. I'll PM sava shortly to see if he can host it. RichE Link to post Share on other sites
woywoy 0 Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Would like to see it. Link to post Share on other sites
RockyV 0 Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 what ended up happening here? I would like to see it, I can host the file too as long and bandwidth doesn't get too out of hand (I have 2GB or webspace and 20Gb or bandwidth which I barely use) Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 it was linked into bit torrent for a while and we all downloaded it, pm sava if you still want it. Link to post Share on other sites
sava 0 Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 To the people that have pmed me, will fix up the experiments thread shorlt.y Link to post Share on other sites
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