Test Upload Succesful, A Temp Copy Of Reduced Quality Should Be Up Tonight… – The “Lost” Ramadi Episodes Update at Pat Dollard

Test Upload Succesful, A Temp Copy Of Reduced Quality Should Be Up Tonight… – The “Lost” Ramadi Episodes Update

November 30th, 2009 (23) Posted By Pat Dollard.

After a long weekend of sorting this out with PopModal, the series is being uploaded for release today. It turns out that the files were still too big for PopModal, but they referred me to Blip.tv were the upload is currently in progress. PoPModal is going to run the series as well, from Blip.tv’s embed.

I know this has been a pain in the ass and bummer for everyone, but I assure you, it’s only been a thousand times that for me.

The site will now also continue posting as normal.

Onward and upward….

13:28 Update:

It says it’s still uploading, but hasn’t moved past 55% for nearly two hours…perhaps the whole system is just busier due to time of day….not aborting yet, since the system has not aborted me…

13:48 Update:

I went ahead and aborted, and re-started the upload. Welcome to my nightmare…

16:40 Update:

Alright, we’re at 55%, which is where it crapped out last time. Let’s see if we break clear…

16:49 Update:

DOA. Dead at 55%. Started on its own again, I’m trying two other systems that were referred to me today…it’s starting to seem that this would be faster if I wiould just burn, sell and ship DVD’s…

December 1, 2009

Jeffers M. Dodge of PopModal has advised me to use a program called Sorenson Squeeze to reduce the size of the video files to get them to upload to Blip.tv.

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Awesome…Patience is a virtue. :beer: :gun:

http://patdollard.com Pat Dollard

So’s throwing certain objects around the house, from time to time.
http://www.kimberamerica.com/images/pistols/custom.jpg T-Bagg

Throwing objects around the house from time to time is a virtue? Good, I’m in the clear.

SgtJenz

Will these episodes be available on DVD? There are those of us who either don’t have access to or cannot afford high speed internet.

http://patdollard.com Pat Dollard

Yes.
SgtJenz

Great!
http://www.accdf.com aboutTObegin

Pat, thanks for taking the time to get this put together, I definitely will get a copy of the DVD’s! for the memories.

-aTb

CPLGolden

Thanks for the hard work Pat.
Sgsaur

Thanks Pat. I hope having to deal with this didn’t screw up your Holiday weekend too much. I don’t think that we out here in Dollard Nation can ever thank you enough for all you do to keep us informed.
Mark in WA

Thanks for your hard work, Pat. You are Top Shelf.
http://www.snooperreport.com Mark Harvey

Everything is cool when everything does work out and STOP throwing stuff around the room!
CPLGolden

Hurry up and wait; you Devildogs remember that ideology, eh?

Again, thnx for the update and your work Pat.
http://www.sillteam.com Tom

Thanks for the works Pat. Waiting patiently.
Evestay

could you burn it on a CD and send it to the guy with the server to upload it himself?
RexRedbone

Pat is close to a Elvis moment
JOE …NH

Bit Torrent, it was made for this purpose.
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=565
GF

Have you tried Blip.tv or Dailymotion.com. Neither has a limit on how long a video can be and it’s free hosting. Blip.tv has a size limit of 1 gigabyte where as Dailymotion.com does not.

I use to use Sorenson Video 3(aka Squeeze 3) then On2 VP6 (Flash Video before I started using Quicktime Pro 7′s h.264/MPEG-4. I will say it should take a damn long time to render an hour long show no matter which program you use, so sit back and have a beer :beer: Quicktime Pro is cheap though, $29.

http://patdollard.com Pat Dollard

I’ve been trying to upload to Blip but it keeps crapping out at 55%, so I was going to reduce the file with Sorenson, and hope for no great quality loss. The file is 17 gigs. I’ll also try Daily Motion; thanks for the tip.
GF

17 Gigs! Cripes. When rendering footage for the future try changing the data rate to about 2.5 mbits/sec (312 Kilobytes/sec *). This should still deliver great quality for the web when using h.264 and get an hour long program down to about 1.2 Gigs. It’s just an hour per episode right

* yeah, bits is different from bytes

http://www.onetakemedia.net Matt

Pat, have you tried uploading via FTP? I’m assuming you’re using the web uploader. http://blip.tv/dashboard/ftp. That will at least allow you to resume your uploads.
0311inOHio (I didn’t drink the kool-Aid)

:beer: <—– For you Pat. Hope I get a chance to shake your hand someday and buy a half dozen or so for you.
copperpeony

:beer: :beer: :beer:

It’ll all work itself out. Computer programs can be a bitch, so just sit back and take a deep breath.
SC

Don’t know for sure but it may be that their max upload for one file is 8.5 gigs because that’s the size of a single sided dual layer dvd. Kinda makes sense because that would be somewhere around 55% if 17 gigs, ya?