Re: [Frameworks] rudimentary question about file compression

From: Jorge Amaro (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2011 - 23:40:35 PST


mailing a copy through regular mail should also work ;-)

other than that, there are plenty of 'file hosters' but they require
paid membership to upload large files, large as in bigger than 500MB,
you can also try FTP i suppose, it is pretty easy to set up.

On 25 January 2011 07:38, Jorge Amaro <email suppressed> wrote:
> what exactly do you mean? I use bit torrent to transfer private files
> between me and other friends, you only need one person uploading and
> another downloading and the speed will be like your upload speed,
> private transfers aren't indexed in any torrent site, and i think it
> is pretty good to transfer large files, because you can resume
> whenever.
>
> On 25 January 2011 05:06, DJ Demangone <email suppressed> wrote:
>> What are the lengths of the films?
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:59 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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>>
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>> Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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