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<blockquote data-quote="phoebe" data-source="post: 31844"><p>Rob,</p><p></p><p>First off, thanks for the great advice and for kindly taking the time to share your knowledge on this subject with me. I've been reading up on streaming but it's a big help hearing from people like you with actual experience doing it. While I am mainly a web/graphic designer, I've always had an interest in the area of video/audio as well. I guess the best way to learn anything is to just dive in and do it, right?</p><p></p><p>To clarify, my client does in fact want to run the entire episode - actually 1 new episode per month. The episodes are all taped in B/W and they run about 30 min. each. He originally wanted people to be able to download it for a fee, but has since changed his mind. As you are probably aware, there are many sites out there that run entire full length movies. I think many independent filmmakers are now taking advantage of this medium as a means of getting their work noticed on a worldwide scale. That's the sole objective of my client. </p><p></p><p>In response to two areas of of advice you provided:</p><p></p><p>1. <em>The first thing you need to do is find a way to take the Beta tape and transfer the tapes into a format that you can capture on to your mac. Bottomline you need to find a way to get it to your hard drive via firewire.</em></p><p><em></em> </p><p>I do have firewire and iDVD. My client wants to burn the episodes onto standard individual DVDs and give them to me that way. I guess I was assuming that I would be able to capture the episode off the DVD and put it into Quicktime. So, are you saying that he has to transfer it over to MiniDv first, and then I would import it to my mac through the camera?</p><p></p><p>2. <em>To Stream a 30 minute episode is not a problem, but it's a huge file size. For a cable/dsl etc it won't matter as much, but you're looking at least 100 megs and that's with some pretty heavy compression. </em></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I was telling my client that the file size would be enormous for those people with only dial ups. Ok, so considering the file size, and once I capture the footage for streaming, I have to find some kind of software that would compress it before it goes on the web, right? Would Quicktime do something like this or would I have to spend big $$ on new software? </p><p></p><p>One of my concerns, is that the hosting company my client is with currently supports Real Audio/Video. I agree with your advice about Quicktime and would like to stick with that instead. Does this mean I would have to find him another host that supports QuickTime? Also, during my research I discovered that there are actual streaming hosts out there who specifically cater to websites that have streaming media. Have you had any experience with them? </p><p></p><p>My other concern is my computer's ability to handle this. My client wants me to capture a new episode and upload it at the beginning of each month. My Mac is a G4 800 MHz with 62.56 GB. I have the entire root folder for the website on my desk top and once I get this going, it will also store the file for the episode. My friends laugh at me when I get concerned about used up space on my hard drive despite having 62.56 gigs. I guess it should be fine.. right?? (Just humor me on this one Rob!)</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your patience. Hope you can assist with these follow up questions. Once again, you were a tremendous help starting me off in the right direction. Much appreciated...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoebe, post: 31844"] Rob, First off, thanks for the great advice and for kindly taking the time to share your knowledge on this subject with me. I've been reading up on streaming but it's a big help hearing from people like you with actual experience doing it. While I am mainly a web/graphic designer, I've always had an interest in the area of video/audio as well. I guess the best way to learn anything is to just dive in and do it, right? To clarify, my client does in fact want to run the entire episode - actually 1 new episode per month. The episodes are all taped in B/W and they run about 30 min. each. He originally wanted people to be able to download it for a fee, but has since changed his mind. As you are probably aware, there are many sites out there that run entire full length movies. I think many independent filmmakers are now taking advantage of this medium as a means of getting their work noticed on a worldwide scale. That's the sole objective of my client. In response to two areas of of advice you provided: 1. [I]The first thing you need to do is find a way to take the Beta tape and transfer the tapes into a format that you can capture on to your mac. Bottomline you need to find a way to get it to your hard drive via firewire. [/I] I do have firewire and iDVD. My client wants to burn the episodes onto standard individual DVDs and give them to me that way. I guess I was assuming that I would be able to capture the episode off the DVD and put it into Quicktime. So, are you saying that he has to transfer it over to MiniDv first, and then I would import it to my mac through the camera? 2. [I]To Stream a 30 minute episode is not a problem, but it's a huge file size. For a cable/dsl etc it won't matter as much, but you're looking at least 100 megs and that's with some pretty heavy compression. [/I] Yeah, I was telling my client that the file size would be enormous for those people with only dial ups. Ok, so considering the file size, and once I capture the footage for streaming, I have to find some kind of software that would compress it before it goes on the web, right? Would Quicktime do something like this or would I have to spend big $$ on new software? One of my concerns, is that the hosting company my client is with currently supports Real Audio/Video. I agree with your advice about Quicktime and would like to stick with that instead. Does this mean I would have to find him another host that supports QuickTime? Also, during my research I discovered that there are actual streaming hosts out there who specifically cater to websites that have streaming media. Have you had any experience with them? My other concern is my computer's ability to handle this. My client wants me to capture a new episode and upload it at the beginning of each month. My Mac is a G4 800 MHz with 62.56 GB. I have the entire root folder for the website on my desk top and once I get this going, it will also store the file for the episode. My friends laugh at me when I get concerned about used up space on my hard drive despite having 62.56 gigs. I guess it should be fine.. right?? (Just humor me on this one Rob!) Thanks for your patience. Hope you can assist with these follow up questions. Once again, you were a tremendous help starting me off in the right direction. Much appreciated... [/QUOTE]
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