F-22s arrive at Langely

I have a nice (U) video of the first Raptors over Norfolk. If someone
can tell me how to put it up on a web site, I'll be happy to make it
publicly available.

I have a nice (U) video of the first Raptors over Norfolk. If someone
can tell me how to put it up on a web site, I'll be happy to make it
publicly available.

How big is it?

If you can break it into 10 mb "bites", you can email them to me as
attachments, and I'll put 'em on our aviation video page.

See it he http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm
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Iowa City, IA
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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I have a nice (U) video of the first Raptors over Norfolk. If someone
can tell me how to put it up on a web site, I'll be happy to make it
publicly available.

How big is it?

If you can break it into 10 mb "bites", you can email them to me as
attachments, and I'll put 'em on our aviation video page.

The best solution is to upload the file to a file download host. Google
"file upload download host", or something similar, to find a whole slew of
them. I know of a few, but friends report good success with
http://www.rapidshare.de

These are web sites that allow you to upload any file, and then they give
you a URL that you can send to someone else so that they can download. Free
access is somewhat limited in that you have to wait to get the file (about a
minute), and there may be size limits, storage time limits, and number of
download limits as well (depending on the host)

But, it avoids having to break the file into pieces, as well as the roughly
30% overhead that comes from sending via email (that's right...if you send a
1MB file in email, it actually costs about 1.3MB in bandwidth and storage
space requirements).

If you do have to break something into smaller parts, the TAR or RAR formats
are relatively common ways to do that. I haven't used it much, but there's
a free program called 7-Zip that is supposed to do a good job with both
(might only be able to write one or the other of those, but I'm pretty sure
it reads both).

Hope that helps.

Pete

Jay Honeck wrote:
I have a nice (U) video of the first Raptors over Norfolk. If someone
can tell me how to put it up on a web site, I'll be happy to make it
publicly available.

How big is it?

If you can break it into 10 mb "bites", you can email them to me as
attachments, and I'll put 'em on our aviation video page.

The file is a PowerPoint (.pps) presentation. It's only 1.7 MB.

How big is it?

If you can break it into 10 mb "bites", you can email them to me as
attachments, and I'll put 'em on our aviation video page.

Not to be touting services, but there is a service called Xdrive
(xdrive.com) which lets you "share" a "hard drive on the internet". You
create an Xdrive account, and upload files (such as the aviation video)
to a folder on it. It acts like a hard drive, and can even be
configured to look like one on an internet connected computer. Then you
set folder permissions and invite specified other people (by Email
address) to "share" it.

Those people, to accept the invitation, create their own Xdrive account.
Your shared folder is visible to them as if it were on their drive.
They have whatever permissions you have set (read, write, delete, share,
etc.) and only those.

It's nifty and keeps your Email unclogged.

The account is free; it requires a (free) AOL or AIM screenname.

Jose
--
"Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can't see where
it keeps its brain." (chapter 10 of book 3 - Harry Potter).
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

Stubby wrote in news:7Zudnb5HqJJ-
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The file is a PowerPoint (.pps) presentation.

You've just reduced your potential audience to a slim number.

rant
What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures and
video to formats other than what they were taken in? What's
wrong with JPG? or AVI? or MOV? Nope. That's not good enough.
It's got to be converted to PDF, or PPS, or flash, or shockwave,
or one of the dozens of other formats that are the fad of the
week that by the time people manage to find a player to view
them, is no longer in vogue. If file size is an issue, these
formats are already compressible - just re-encode them with
increased compression for web use.
/rant

BTW, this rant was not directed specifically at you, Stubby.

Brian
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"Skywise" wrote in message
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Stubby wrote in news:7Zudnb5HqJJ-
:

The file is a PowerPoint (.pps) presentation.

You've just reduced your potential audience to a slim number.

rant
What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures and video to
formats other than what they were taken in? What's wrong with JPG?

JPG is a "lossy" format. Each time the file is re-saved, it re-compresses
and information is lost.

or AVI?

AVI is relatively UNcompressed and can take up a lot of space. IIRC, AVIs
take up about 13Gb per hour.

or MOV?

Proprietary.

Nope. That's not good enough. It's got to be converted to PDF, or PPS, or
flash, or shockwave, or one of the dozens of other formats that are the fad
of the
week that by the time people manage to find a player to view them, is no
longer in vogue. If file size is an issue, these formats are already
compressible - just re-encode them with increased compression for web use.

You may find it interesting that AVID (arguably the most widely used
professional video editing platform) encodes material into Quicktime files.

FWIW...

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL
Chandler, AZ
Freelance Editor

"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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rant
What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures and video to
formats other than what they were taken in? What's wrong with JPG?

JPG is a "lossy" format. Each time the file is re-saved, it re-compresses
and information is lost.

Except that it's likely that the original images were already JPEGs, which
someone stuffed into a .ppt file. They could've just provided the original
files instead.

Or converted it to a more uniformly supported video file, if they really
wanted to have control over soundtrack and image transitions.

For that matter, even something like Flash would be better than PowerPoint,
and allows exactly the same benefits (such as they are). I'm with
Skywise...PowerPoint is a downright silly format to distribute online media
content.

or AVI?

AVI is relatively UNcompressed and can take up a lot of space. IIRC, AVIs
take up about 13Gb per hour.

You misunderstand AVI. AVI is just a container. An AVI that uses 12GB (not
13GB) per hour is in the NTSC-DV format. That is, the raw (mostly) digital
stream that comes off a digital video camera.

AVI can also contain MPEG4, WMV, DivX, etc. all of which compress very
nicely and don't come close to 12GB/hour.

or MOV?

Proprietary.

And PowerPoint isn't?

You may find it interesting that AVID (arguably the most widely used
professional video editing platform) encodes material into Quicktime
files.

I'm sure some of their tools use Quicktime for certain things. What that
has to do with this discussion, I don't see.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...
"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
news
rant
What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures and video to
formats other than what they were taken in? What's wrong with JPG?

JPG is a "lossy" format. Each time the file is re-saved, it
re-compresses and information is lost.

Except that it's likely that the original images were already JPEGs, which
someone stuffed into a .ppt file. They could've just provided the
original files instead.

Or converted it to a more uniformly supported video file, if they really
wanted to have control over soundtrack and image transitions.

For that matter, even something like Flash would be better than
PowerPoint, and allows exactly the same benefits (such as they are). I'm
with Skywise...PowerPoint is a downright silly format to distribute online
media content.

Agreed.


or AVI?

AVI is relatively UNcompressed and can take up a lot of space. IIRC,
AVIs take up about 13Gb per hour.

You misunderstand AVI. AVI is just a container. An AVI that uses 12GB
(not 13GB) per hour is in the NTSC-DV format. That is, the raw (mostly)
digital stream that comes off a digital video camera.

AVI can also contain MPEG4, WMV, DivX, etc. all of which compress very
nicely and don't come close to 12GB/hour.


Ok, noted. I've only worked with video that has been transferred straight
off tape. I've not ever heard of AVI as a "wrapper" for other formats.

or MOV?

Proprietary.

And PowerPoint isn't?

No, you're right, it is as well.

You may find it interesting that AVID (arguably the most widely used
professional video editing platform) encodes material into Quicktime
files.

I'm sure some of their tools use Quicktime for certain things. What that
has to do with this discussion, I don't see.

It's the one file format that didn't get mentioned...and I'm pretty sure
most people don't equate Quicktime with pro-level work.

I just tossed that out as an "oh by the way."

Jay B

Microsoft does offer a free PowerPoint viewer
Download details: PowerPoint Viewer 2003 PowerPoint Viewer
2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in
PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

"Skywise" wrote in message
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| Stubby wrote in
news:7Zudnb5HqJJ-
| :
|
| The file is a PowerPoint (.pps) presentation.
|
| You've just reduced your potential audience to a slim
number.
|
| rant
| What is it with the urge for people to convert pictures
and
| video to formats other than what they were taken in?
What's
| wrong with JPG? or AVI? or MOV? Nope. That's not good
enough.
| It's got to be converted to PDF, or PPS, or flash, or
shockwave,
| or one of the dozens of other formats that are the fad of
the
| week that by the time people manage to find a player to
view
| them, is no longer in vogue. If file size is an issue,
these
| formats are already compressible - just re-encode them
with
| increased compression for web use.
| /rant
|
| BTW, this rant was not directed specifically at you,
Stubby.
|
| Brian
| --
| http://www.skywise711.com - Lasers, Seismology, Astronomy,
Skepticism
| Seismic FAQ:
http://www.skywise711.com/SeismicFAQ/SeismicFAQ.html
| Quake "predictions":
http://www.skywise711.com/quakes/EQDB/index.html
| Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?