+ 1 on what flick wrote but i would ad that you can use mpeg stream clip to transcode bizaare files
http://www.squared5.com/ and i like much more than yousendit - which screwed up my mac so i had to kick it off - we transfer - is great - it is web based sorry i cannot get the link i am in russia and google is routing me some weird place when i try On 9/22/12, victoria waghorn <[email protected]> wrote: > hihi > > so i run a crowd sourced film festival in australia [15Mb of FAME] and it's > all onsite so we deal with physical submissions over the lead-up duration > of a couple of days of footage which is then collated and edited over 48 > hours or so... it's a rather mammothian task as the festival while not > enormous involves well over 5000 bodies. thankfully not that many submit > footage... > > we deal with raw files [mpeg4/mov files] from mostly phones and it's just a > direct upload of data via USB etc with a team of uber punk monk peeps > managing it onsite. it's all rather hectic. > > looking forward to seeing/hearing about your project further. > > here's what we did in the first year... > > http://www.15mb-of-fame.tv/ > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:35 AM, flick harrison > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Interesting question. >> >> 1. GETTING THE FILES >> >> Yousendit or Dropbox might be good ways to get the files, the size limits >> are better on dropbox. But any files you get from other people add to >> your >> own quota so you'd have to be really organized to get everything >> happening >> without maybe confounding your senders. >> >> I would think a self-hosted blind-drop FTP server, i.e. a one-way web >> interface so they could send you raw files. Never set one up but I've >> seen >> them. In any case - if web interface is too hard to do then you have to >> expect the shooters to understand FTP. >> >> You could ask people to post full-quality versions on youtube and then >> rip >> the files with some sort of youtube downloading plugin. This would be >> clunky and usually results in (BIG!) quality loss. >> >> Vimeo would work, since there's an option to leave the full-quality file >> as a download link for anyone who sees the video. You can >> password-protect >> videos there so they aren't available to the general public. But then >> folks would have to sign up for a vimeo account and understand how to get >> a >> reasonable-quality file on there (max 1 HD upload per week, 500Mb total >> files per week, thus more headaches). >> >> But, for instance, can shooters on an ipad really send you the >> full-quality master footage? Or are they limited to BS options like >> "Share >> -> Youtube, Facebook, etc" which bypass the file system altogether? It's >> the result of the War on General Purpose Computing. >> >> 2. USING THE FILES >> >> This is trickier - I've done BYO gigs with kids, where everyone and >> sundry >> had a different file wrapper and codec and frame rate and file size so >> on. >> Premier or FCP should probably eat them all and crap out a movie but I >> did >> encounter the odd Chinese kid with an .mtv format or something no one had >> ever heard of except them. >> >> AND if they are sending the files, better hope they understand the file >> structure for stuff like AVCHD, and get them to send the whole "PRIVATE" >> folder and that kinda thing. Etc etc. >> >> The deal is that even with good pre-production discussions between two >> people, surprises crop up - so sending out a call to the general public >> is >> asking for trouble. But I'm interested in the same kinds of projects so >> please let me know how it develops! >> >> Good Luck! >> >> -Flick >> >> >> >> -- >> ** WHERE'S MY ARTICLE, WORLD? >> *http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_Harrison >> >> ** FLICK's WEBSITE: http://www.flickharrison.com * >> >> [image: Zero for Conduct - Flick's >> News]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ZeroForConduct/~6/1> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > > -- > victoria waghorn > -------------------- > founder // filmmaker > punk monk propaganda > a. the corner shop > 144 henderson rd > alexandria. NSW > e. [email protected] > m. +61[0]412 534 384 > -- Cari Machet NYC 646-436-7795 [email protected] AIM carismachet Skype carimachet - 646-652-6434 Syria +963-099 277 3243 Amman +962 077 636 9407 Berlin +49 152 11779219 Twitter: @carimachet <https://twitter.com/carimachet> Ruh-roh, this is now necessary: This email is intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this information, dissimination, distribution, or copying of this email without permission is strictly prohibited. _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
