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TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi. I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village. I'm going to talk to you about FTP
and file upload management. Obviously, when dealing with the media that is going to be
software form, meaning you're going to be giving clients' files that are either QuickTimes,
Windows Media files, any sort of video file, maybe it's in Flash format, you're going to
have to provide this to them but not in a physical form. That means you're going to
have to send it over the internet which means dealing with FTP sites. Basically, you're
going to be copying your files up to a server that they're going to be able to access remotely.
When you're copying these files up, it's important to remember the size of the file and figuring
out how you can gauge how long it's going to take the file to copy up. Depending on
what sort of software you're using, which kind of browser you're using for your FTP
management, you want to make sure that it's something that's reliable and isn't going
to time out in the middle of a copy. For instance, you could have a very large file that you've
been copying up over an FTP server and halfway through, it times out and you have to start
all over again. Well, if you promise the client that they would have that file by a certain
time and suddenly the copy failed, well, you're back to square one and now, your client isn't
getting what you had promised. So, make sure to give yourself plenty of time when dealing
with FTP sites. You might want to take extra precautions and export a lower res version
of final files. It also helps to zip or stuff the files. There's a lot of compressing software
that's available free of charge on the web that you can check out to make your file smaller
so you can copy them up quicker, getting them to your client faster.