Re: [Frameworks] rudimentary question about file compression

From: T. Siddle (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2011 - 22:18:32 PST


You could make a very lo-res copy and then compress it into a zip file which
could help a bit. If it's still too big for yousendit (or some other such
service) and you have a website you could directly upload the zipped file to
a new folder and they could directly download it.

Best,
Tessa Siddle

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Jonathan M. Hall <email suppressed> wrote:

> Dear Frameworkers,
>
> I'm working on some subtitles for (again) some Japanese experimental films.
> The person I'm working with is not local and we're trying to find a means
> to send back and forth low resolution copies of the films (basically DVD
> files) so that we can confirm the subtitle placement is accurate. These are
> lengthy so it seems that youtube and "sendthisfile" won't work, unless we
> can somehow compress the files in the latter case.
> Does anyone have some good recommendations here for compressing files so
> they can be either emailed or transferred somehow through the cloud? I
> apologize for a question that appears more of an IT question than a film
> question, but since it's in the service of the latter, I thought there might
> be some film-specific recommendations for data transfer here.
>
> Yours most sincerely,
> Jonathan M Hall
> Los Angeles, California
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