When you start filming lots of video, you're dealing with big video files.
And often, my clients want to send me different things and they're
wondering, "Well, how do I send you a video file I can't just email it." -Right. -And
attachment like they typically do. So, that's we're going to cover today. I'm going to
explain it. But I'll actually demonstrate how you send a large video file.
Okay, so another big reason why I get asked a lot about how to send large
video files is because I talk a lot about outsourcing. -Right. -And all of my team...
-There are the Philippines. I even asked you that before. Like, these things that
we're making right now, these are huge files. I mean... -Well, yeah. And because I
film 20 or more episodes in a day, just last week Thursday or into 36 episodes
in a day. All filmed in HD. -That's a terabyte or something -I don't I don't film... -It's not. It's
more like 60 to 80 gigabytes. -Oh, that's all? -Because I'm not filming in 4k. -Oh. that's
right. Okay. -I don't have a reason to. We'll talk about that... -You could with this what
we're going to talk about. -Right. But 80 gigabytes,
you can't email it. You can't even email one gigabyte, right? -No. Yeah. -So, how do you
do that? Well, .Dropbox. So, let's talk about Dropbox.
Okay, so Dropbox has a whole bunch of advantages. It has a couple
disadvantages. And as long as you know kind of understand why those
disadvantages exist then you can make it work and I absolutely love it and rely
on. I have an unlimited account with Dropbox. So, Dropbox is meant to sync
all the files from your computer to the cloud in the background so it doesn't
take up your computer's usability or you know... -Oh yeah, you'd be burning through
your laptops and whatever. -Yeah, it's like I have to wait for it to upload and I
couldn't do anything..., -Right. -...browse anything. So, it just meant to kind of to
ramp up if I'm not using my computer and kind of scale back if I'm
actively using it. Which is nice. -Yeah. -Now, my team in the Philippines, their
computer is also connected to my Dropbox cloud account. And so, if I save a file on
my computer, I basically have a folder and I'll show you this. -You have a shared
folder with them? -So I have a folder on my computer that says Dropbox and I can
put lots of folders inside that. But basically, if I save a file there it
syncs to the cloud and automatically starts sinking to their computer. Now, I'm
going to demonstrate a feature of how you can choose which files you want to
sync and not sync so you don't have to worry about your your computer being
overloaded with too many you know, running out or anything like that.
So, I guess one disadvantage is if I needed to send a file to my team really
quickly or vice versa they needed to send some to me really quickly. If you
save it to Dropbox you just have to wait a little bit. -Well and you're still at
the mercy of whatever connection speed you have, whatever bandwidth you have.
I mean, you clearly must have some kind of unlimited at&t bandwidth here at the
house or or maybe cable or... -I mean, right here we've got a fiber optic. -Fiber. -It's
pretty quick. My teens internet it varies from from you know, team member to team
member. -Yeah. -But there's definitely, definitely slower. So, it does depend on
your internet connection. Another thing is if I've just uploaded 100
gigabytes, it'll put it on my computer and they're all they're syncing to
Dropbox. And then I'm like, "You know what? I've got this one file. I want to send it."
Well, it kind of gets in the queue. It's got a wait for... -Right, yes. -...everything. -So,
what do you do when that's... Yeah. Is there anything that you can do? I mean... -You can
actually log into Dropbox.com and manually click upload and have it upload
that way and that will kind of give you a little shortcut. So, that end and then
the team member on the other side would then go in and download it or I could
send them a link to click to download it. Kind of do it manually instead of
waiting for the background. So, we rarely have to do anything like that. Because
just because we're used to it. And when we work kind of opposite schedule. So
when I'm syncing files, you know, by the time they're ready to start
working... Anyway... -Yeah. They were there. -That actually works really well
-They're on other side of the world. -So, let's um... Let me bring up my computer
and I'll... Okay, so we got my screen here. Let me just open up my finder and I will
navigate till perfect. So, this whole folder is Dropbox. And you can see, I've
got a lot of folders inside my Dropbox folder. So, I'm going to come into my
video projects, projects in progress and let's just come into my "Nate Woodbury"
folder. These are videos that we filmed back on. These ones were filmed on July
28th... -How much does Dropbox charge for unlimited. -It depends on how many users.
I've got ten different users. -Oh it does? -I pay... But it's unlimited. I pay like, 175. Something like
that. But you could... There's actually a free account. So, you can start up just free.
-Right. -And it's refer people. They'll give you more and more space. And then as
you... It's very reasonable. -Okay. -Alright. Now, see over here. This is
the really cool feature that just came out. I think almost two years ago just
under two years ago on Dropbox that totally upped it's game. I was
considering and researching buying my own server. So, I have been using Dropbox
with their previous feature. -Right. -And I was going to buy a server. And it was
going to be pretty expensive. -Yeah. -Because I wanted a good one that would last. And
then Dropbox sent me an email like the day before I was going to make my decision
to buy the server. They sent me an email saying, "Hey, we've got this new feature
called Smart sync." Smart sync if ever made it like, "Oh, I don't have to
have to buy a server." So, this this little symbol right here, this one says it's got
a circle. It kind of looks like a recycle circle almost. It's blue. That's...
-Impressive. -That means, things are syncing in that folder. -Right, that say's it right there. "In
progress." This one up to date. This one mp4 video file is actually
exist locally on my computer here. But everything else it's got this cloud
symbol. Both exist in the cloud. -Right. -So if I... Let me just open up this "Should I
quit my job and start a business?" So, here's all the files that I
filmed and created and put in this folder to create this video. If I... Let me
grab an mp3 file. You see that this is only you know, 15.6 megabytes.
So, if I right-click on this. Come down here to smart sync. All these are
different Dropbox options because I have Dropbox installed in my computer.
-Okay. -I come down here to smart sync and I can
click local. And now you see it turns to that blue "In progress." -Pull it off the
cloud down to you? -And that was quick. It's already done. So now, I
can open it. And it's an audio file. It's I don't even know what it is. -Right. -But
now it's on my computer. -So, before you had to do what's called selective sync
and going in manually select, "Okay, this one, this one, this one and this one, not these."
And... -Yeah. -And but now, you can set folders to have a default. Although this one is by
default. Only going to be in the cloud. And so, if I upload a hundred gigabytes
to the cloud, my team can get notified that files are there. But it won't
necessarily go and fill up their hard drive unless they come in and say, "Oh
yeah, I want that to come to me locally." Or when I take something off of
my camera, you know, I pull off the SD card, stick it
in my computer and then you know, now and then sort all my files here. -Right. -Put
them in a Dropbox folder. -Yes. -Then it syncs to the cloud. -Right.
-I don't want them on my computer anymore after that so then I'll come in here.
Come back to smart sink and say... -Online only.
-Online only. And it's already gone. So, now it's not on my computer anymore. Now
it's just in the clouds. -Yes. -Oh, that is so nice.
It is so nice. Do you know Grant Thompson from the King of Random? -No. -You have to
check out his channel. It's got 10 million subscribers. Really fun.
Family-friendly. -Yeah. -He uses Dropbox as well. But he's been using without smart
sync. And when I showed it to him, he's like... "This is going to change..." I don't know...
Don't know exact words. It's kind of like, "This is a game changer." -Right. -So... -It's
just a simple little tip like that. -It's a big deal. It's a real big deal. Okay. I have one
other kind of side recommendation because if your purpose in setting large
video files is because you've got other people that are doing video editing for
you, if you're going to build a team, just some things that I've learned is you
want to make sure that everyone's using the same video editing software.
Primarily... -Make sense. -Primarily, my favorite is Final Cut Pro. I'm a Mac user. -Yeah. -But
my team in the Philippines, they typically don't have Macs. Only one of my
team members has a Mac. And so Premiere, Adobe Premiere is kind of the
go-to option. And I used to... A few of them used to use different things. But if
you all use the same software... So, if you know, we're all using Adobe Premiere and
they save a project file, that means I can open it up and I can edit it. -Yes. -Or
somebody else can, "You know what? I'm going to help out." It just... That's just a...
-That makes sense. -A simple tip. And also, Adobe Premiere saves project files.
You can open up all the assets on, you know, in that folder. Start doing the
editing and create a project file that has all that the tweaks and edits. -Right.
And the project file itself is really small. -Yes, it is. -So, for somebody in the
Philippines to hit save on their project file, for me to then sync it and open it
up, I don't have to transfer all the video assets. I already have those. -Right.
-Just to transfer that project like Final Cut Pro. It's a huge package that
you have... It's kind of a pain. -Interesting. I didn't know that. I do remember, I've
worked with both. But you're right. Those little PR dot P R... Whatever the
file extension is. It's basically just... It's sort of the
blue print for what it is you were... Yeah, PRPROJ. Yeah, yeah. And there it is
a hundred and nine kilobytes. I mean it is... It's yes. It's tiny. Because it's
basically the blueprint of all of these huge files that are being edited
together. So, you just are looking at a picture of it, yeah. Cool. -So, and that way,
if everyone that's editing on... I guess this is one other side tip. If all the
files for one video project are all put in the same folder, not... You know,
don't try and organize it too much into different subfolders because then if
another team member goes in there, they have to search around and find it. But
just everything for this one video that was titled "Should I quit my job and
start a business". You know, that's all in this folder. So, if you open up this
project file, all the assets are right here. And it looks like my team does have
this motion graphics template media. I don't even know what that is. So, I really
don't know. Like... Okay, they did some editing for After Effects. So, that
wouldn't... If you open up a premier project, it wouldn't open up. Doesn't need
those assets. So, that's my advice. Anyway, hopefully that was helpful.
What do you think? -I think so. Sure. -Did you learn something? -And I would ask too. I mean,
obviously when it comes to just uploading the final product to YouTube,
you're basically at... Once again, just at the mercy of whatever upload speed you
have. I mean, you know what I'm saying? I mean, it's a large file but at this
point, you're not sharing a Dropbox folder with YouTube. In fact, some
of my team members, because I don't want them to wait you know, if they hit upload
for it to go to YouTube and then they have to wait for their computer. All to
say, "You know what? Just sync it to Dropbox." And then without making this
more complicated, I don't do it but I have a computer upstairs that it syncs
to and then we upload it to YouTube from that computer. -Because you have. -Because
I have a fast internet speed. -That's cool. -So we just wait all the syncing that my
team does, we just use Dropbox. -Videos are all over the world shooting back and forth.
I just saw it. Just flew a video file one right there. -That shooting
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