Having been in a similar situation recently, I tried a few of the suggestions here, and more. I had to move about 200 gigs of footage across the Atlantic.
I first tried Resilio. Which is essentially a direct access to a folder you share on your Mac/PC. It's not bad but it forces you to leave your machine on during the whole process. Which took 4 days altogether because some files didn't sync properly. If your upload speed is low (I'm on Fiber so my upload was at least as good as the download speed on the recipients' machine) then it could take a very long time. I was hoping it would be faster since my upload speed is pretty high, but clearly something gets in the way.
Next I went for BackBlaze as I liked the idea behind their company. Failed to install their command line tools so I couldn't upload big folders/files via the web browser. I realized that Cyberduck (ftp software) allows you to connect directly to BackBlaze. That was a good work around. But I got a lot of "checksum errors" on upload, and quite a few corrupt files on my colleagues' end once they downloaded the media files.
Third attempt was to use Google Drive (don't like Google, don't we all?) with Cyberduck too. This time, sending 250 gigs of material. I was impressed by the speed of the transfer, basically it used all the bandwidth I could give. No checksum error things. And downloading was pretty fast and pain free from the other side - using Cyberduck too as it can resume transfers and compare files to make sure you have the same thing locally and on the server. It's just a bit cumbersome to setup Google Drive with Cyberduck (you have to allow it in your web browser, and it's neither friendly nor intuitive). But we will use this method next time because it's been the fastest, most reliable and pretty cheap - I upgraded my account to the $10/month version.
Amazon S3 was on my list but it requires a programmer's degree... but I found out recently that it can be accessed via Cyberduck too. Might give it a try.
I first contacted Media Shuttle after reading that it was pretty affordable. It's not for us on this film: we can't pay $5000 for a year of service, sorry.
Pierre
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Along this line for working on shared project assets,
Saw this at a recent Toronto Creative user group meeting.
Resilio Sync
Resilio is an automated file transfer app.
Similar to drop box but syncs with P2P file sharing.
Here is some info.
For the uninitiated, a Resilio primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwfbKyIpIU
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwfbKyIpIU
Here is the free version of Resilio,
https://www.resilio.com/connect/
50% off promo code for lifetime purchase of Resilio Pro (It gives you more control over
the files you share):
Approx. $70 Cdn
https://t.co/AwdUqG91UL
It's ability to completely eliminate the need to backup/endlessly
'upload/download' files and to reliably send LARGE terabytes of data.
Resilio completely 'decentralizes' post-production which enables those who use this program to
work: Anywhere.
Robert Alsop
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To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Aspera Amazon etc
Hi list,
So for a small shop that would like to be able to transfer large files to other facilities in other countries, what would you recommend?
I've been using WeTransfer and DropBox, but have in the past worked with facilities that provided transfers to and from their Aspera Connect Server, and that's really something.
Is there a similar solution for a small shop like mine, and what kind of $$ would we be talking about? On average I think I'd need to do two 100GB uploads per month.
Thanks for any tips.
Job
Saw this at a recent Toronto Creative user group meeting.
Resilio Sync
Resilio is an automated file transfer app.
Similar to drop box but syncs with P2P file sharing.
Here is some info.
For the uninitiated, a Resilio primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwfbKyIpIU
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwfbKyIpIU
Here is the free version of Resilio,
https://www.resilio.com/connect/
50% off promo code for lifetime purchase of Resilio Pro (It gives you more control over
the files you share):
Approx. $70 Cdn
https://t.co/AwdUqG91UL
It's ability to completely eliminate the need to backup/endlessly
'upload/download' files and to reliably send LARGE terabytes of data.
Resilio completely 'decentralizes' post-production which enables those who use this program to
work: Anywhere.
Robert Alsop
-----Original Message-----
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:53 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Avid-L2] Aspera Amazon etc
Hi list,
So for a small shop that would like to be able to transfer large files to other facilities in other countries, what would you recommend?
I've been using WeTransfer and DropBox, but have in the past worked with facilities that provided transfers to and from their Aspera Connect Server, and that's really something.
Is there a similar solution for a small shop like mine, and what kind of $$ would we be talking about? On average I think I'd need to do two 100GB uploads per month.
Thanks for any tips.
Job
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