I have been given 3 full screen QT movies to place on a clients site. I have them on my hard disc and they are big - 555MB, 855MB and a whopping 3.4GB.
I saw a thread from April (http://www.freewaytalk.net/thread/view/69552#m_69623) where Joe explains how to reduce the size of a 90MB movie using QT pro. Is this the solution for me with these much bigger files or is there another option? Or do I ask the movie maker to make me something more sensible for the web?
Thanks Dave. I have referred them back to their maker and am awaiting his solution.
But your advice to host them elsewhere caught my interest. Are there hostings for such things or do I/the client buy more web space with another hosting company?
Some hosts, like Dreamhost, don’t actually have limits on their accounts. Others just don’t enforce them. Another approach is to use a Content Delivery Network, like Amazon CloudFront, to serve the actual media, and put everything else on a normal Web host.
Thanks for the info Walter. I will look into it all. Meanwhile the movie maker has got the 855/8minute movie down to 166MB which is still big no? I wait to see what he can do with the 3.4Gb/35 minute movie!
Files that large are screaming out to be streamed using QuickTime
Streaming Server. Dreamhost offers that as part of their most basic
packages. You might want to look into it. The benefit is that only the
part of the file that’s currently being watched, plus a little buffer
either way, is ever sent to the browser at any given time. Regular
HTTP chase-play work like this to an extent, but the entire file ends
up on the user’s drive at the end of the day, which might not be what
you’re after.
Walter
On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Richard Lowther wrote:
Thanks for the info Walter. I will look into it all. Meanwhile the
movie maker has got the 855/8minute movie down to 166MB which is
still big no? I wait to see what he can do with the 3.4Gb/35 minute
movie!
Well my movie maker has reduced one of the files from 855MB to 166MB but still seems a tad large. However I did find that in Quicktime X which ships with Snow Leopard there is a ‘save for web’ option in the file menu. This allowed me to make a folder with 3 or 4 formats of the movie, covering playback on a computer, mobile, iTunes… Upload this folder to a server and the most suitable file is selected for the device in your hands when called on to play. I tried it with my 166MB file and yes it worked but it plays back faster than it can stream so grinds to a halt after a few seconds before continuing. Plays well on my iPhone though. I guess the file is still to big or my connection too slow? Interesting though - has anyone else used this option in QTX and with what result?