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Just wondering whether we'll be setting up torrents for distribution of files. Always good to have these things prepared in advance. Especially if a few of the members are able to take the files with them when they leave so that a reasonably sized distribution is setup from the getgo. Perhaps even divide the files between the various members to ease on space.

If you require a webpage putting together for linking the files and adding descriptive text on the fly I'm more than happy to helpout, just let me know what you need. Otherwise simply posting the torrent links up on the forums should suffice.
 
Fantastic idea. Let's hope the LART decides to release some of the footage. I guess they feel they can't promise anything now - eg on the 0.0001% chance the footage looks strange, they have said they'd talk to Red and try to get the problem fixed before releasing messed-up footage that folks will spread over the internets ;)

But we're all pretty much totally confident the footage will look great, we might as well discuss torrents now, right?

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Bruce Allen said:
Fantastic idea. Let's hope the LART decides to release some of the footage. I guess they feel they can't promise anything now - eg on the 0.0001% chance the footage looks strange, they have said they'd talk to Red and try to get the problem fixed before releasing messed-up footage that folks will spread over the internets ;)

But we're all pretty much totally confident the footage will look great, we might as well discuss torrents now, right?

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
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Hi Bruce,

Interestingly it was not until Geoff Boyle's plotted a graph of David Stump's footage relative to other cameras, that people started to realize there was an issue with dynamic range, that was after many thousands of downloads.

Stephen
 
Or just a direct link hosted by someone on a server?
 
My initial thoughts were that you'd really need a dedicated server which would be an added expense that's why I suggested the torrent route.

That said we could always setup a dedicated server account for a month, anyone that has made a donation to the LART team or makes a donation for the server hosting could be given first dibs to download the footage before opening it up to all.

Get a hosting company in CA to setup a dedicated server. That way someone from LART could just walk in with a portable harddrive and copy the files across, can you imagine trying to upload them over broadband!
 
Thanks for that suggestion Paul...it's an excellent one. We're analyzing our options on that. I'm sure we'll find a good solution on that, whether it be a torrent or direct link. Everyone on RED User will be anxious to get a peek at some of the footage, so we'll do our best we to post it up. The testing days will be long days - but fun days! That said, our first mission is to pack as much meaningful work into the two days we have...and then to get some impressions and footage posted for everyone to check out.
 
I'll be bringing external storage and will bring back anything I'm allowed to take with me. I'll also be happy to host too. With my current capacity, I can probably donate about 750GB of hosting space and 7 or 8 TB/month bandwidth. I'll look into it some more this week.
 
I would definitely pay for downloads.
 
Great offer!

Just curious though, isn't LART more about the hands on RED know how as shared and written by Gibby on reduser post LART than the online 4K deliverables given current technological constraints?
 
Hi Gibby and LART crew. I'm really looking forward to seeing your footage, as I'm sure everyone else is too. A few questions that I couldn't find answers to online (too many posts to go thru).

What type of footage can we expect to see?
Is there a list of what is to be shot beyond colored boards?
Can we get a hard date when footage will be posted? :whistling:

I can try to get my partner to donate server space if need be.
 
Probably with a combination of Jeff's hosting and putting it up on Vuze/Torrents, all bases would be covered. Lots of us can throw up mirrors, too.
 
I've got the dirty details on what I can do with my current hosting abilities. Basically, we're looking at about 8TB per month that I can dish out without investing in additional bandwidth. So I've got some good overhead here.

Sounds like a lot, but it may not be that much when all is considered. I suppose it depends on what actually gets made available to the viewing public and all that... That's Gibby's department. I guess we'll know more over the next couple weeks as LART approaches.
 
what will the image dimensions anyway? i hope that we won't get another 4K file like in the past. the max I'd like to have will be 1080 HD, scaled and cropped ( scaled for judgement of overall "feel and look" and cropped for sharpness, texture etc. ). I may be able to provide some bandwith, too, but not for 4K...
 
None of us really have 4K displays on our computers, so I suppose it would be 1080p? And maybe 4K stills/grabs?
 
If we're shooting 4k greenscreen material people are going to need at least a second of footage to really look at it themselves. Stills don't tell you a whole lot.
 
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