Anyone know where I can host a 2.5GB file?

musicvid10 wrote on 1/17/2011, 1:34 PM
I would love to make my DNxHD intermediate (2.41GB) of my youtube test available to others so we could compare renders with other settings and methods (a shootout with MeGUI would be fun!).

MediaFire wants $108/year for big files, and I'm underemployed this year. I would pay a modest one-time fee for the privilege, though. Anyone got the space or any ideas?

TIA

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jeff-beardall wrote on 1/17/2011, 1:39 PM
I think dropbox does monthly 50gb accounts for $9.99 - great service...highly recommended.
amendegw wrote on 1/17/2011, 2:19 PM
I can host it for you. My godaddy account allows me 150GB - and I'm nowhere close to that.

I'm currently setting you up with an FTP user id - don't understand why it's not an immediate setup?? Once the setup is complete I'll email you the userid/password.

...Jerry

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Jeff9329 wrote on 1/17/2011, 2:20 PM
Thats too big for any free service (usually 100MB or so) I know of and even too big for a paid service like YouSendIt (2GB limit, and a great service).

Mediafire seems like a great service for casual use and has a 10 GB file limit. But the licence agreement kills it for me.

According to MediaFire's terms of service, by uploading any content to them, you provide them with an irrevocable license to sell and distribute your content to anyone of their choosing. This license does not expire even if your content is removed from the MediaFire hosing service.

My webhost advertises unlimited storage and bandwith, but they throttle the crap out of it, and I have the feeling they would cut you off after a few downloads, unlimited or not.

Keep searching and let us know what works best.
L8R wrote on 1/17/2011, 2:21 PM
vimeo...
Jeff9329 wrote on 1/17/2011, 2:25 PM
Vimeo is going to render it in a couple different ways according to the file type and if you have a Pro account (2-pass) or not.

You do get to let others download the file if you permit.
farss wrote on 1/17/2011, 2:44 PM
How many are going to download 2.5GB?

It's not that hard to build test cases using nothing other than Vegas, then the files are very small. You could maybe add 1 HirRes png image if needed but still the download will be quite reasonable and easily shared.

Before anyone asks why I haven't done this, well I've been trying on and off but have hit a bit of an impasse in Vegas itself. There seems to be something funky going on, what I see in the preview window is not what I get rendering to uncompressed. I suspect this is due to an issue Glenn pointed out a long time ago. You've got to look darn hard to see this problem, I've only seen it in the aliasing in a res chart's trumpets so far.

Bob.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/17/2011, 6:22 PM
JERRY THANKS!
jrazz wrote on 1/17/2011, 6:32 PM
And, to add to what was said previously about Vimeo, you can upload it and have the file available for others to download if you have a pro account (50 a year I believe). In addition, the original file never gets deleted and with the newest desktop uploader tool (downloadable from their site) you can upload a file up to 5 gigs in size.

j razz
NickHope wrote on 1/17/2011, 11:25 PM
Amazon S3, which is pay-as-you-go and handles files up to 5TB. Upload with Cloudberry Explorer (you need to set the ACL to "public (everyone)" after upload). If you want faster downloads worldwide you can upgrade Amazon S3 to Cloudfront, which is their CDN but costs a bit more.