View Full Version : Better than drop box? Anyone


Steve Bleasdale
September 8th, 2013, 02:49 PM
Ok so past week and would you believe it four weddings mexico honeymoons, I generally use dropbox for my trailers copy link send and generally ok but im finding dropbox takes forever to load, I wait and pheeeew I can be doing a lot more with my time. Anything out there better than dropbox guys...

Peter Riding
September 8th, 2013, 03:48 PM
I have a Dropbox account but the main one use is Google Drive at 130gb @ £4 per month. All the cloud services should have around the same upload speed and it would be your choice of ISP that is more relevant. I got a higher upload speed by switching from BT to Sky as the latter was about 3x faster at that time.

Why not just upload overnight or from an unattended laptop if your resources and time are being tied up.

Also, some internet cafes have upload speeds vastly higher than any you can get at a home office. You could just go into one of those with a laptop or even leave them a usb stick to do it for you if you trust them with a particular cloud account of yours.

Pete

Steve Bleasdale
September 9th, 2013, 03:50 AM
Cheers Pete

Nigel Barker
September 9th, 2013, 04:48 AM
Copy.com is another cloud service but regular account gives you 15GB for free vs 2GB for Dropbox. It works well. Sign up with this link & you will get an extra 5GB for a total of 20GB free (forever apparently)

https://copy.com?r=7Cadj6

Full disclosure I too get an extra 5GB if you sign up with my referral link above.

Steve Bleasdale
September 9th, 2013, 07:21 AM
Ok thanks Nigel will look at that cheers

Danny O'Neill
September 9th, 2013, 11:29 AM
Vimeo, password protect it. Its web optimized so faster streaming than sending it.

Or if you do want to send it then we use www.wetransfer.com

Steve Bleasdale
September 9th, 2013, 01:27 PM
Thanks Danny, I do use vimeo but when I want to send quick instead of uploading to vimeo, the we transfer looks ideal cheers, hope your well steve

Dmitri Zigany
September 9th, 2013, 03:42 PM
I also use WeTransfer to send video files... Works great!

Richard Gooderick
September 10th, 2013, 10:39 AM
Vimeo only allows your client to download an original high definition file if you have a Vimeo Pro account. Which costs USD 199 per year.

I think the client can download the original file if they join Vimeo but that is not something you can ask a blue chip client to do without looking a bit amateur.

Personally, I have a Vimeo Plus account which doesn't allow me to share an original 1920 x 1080 file with a client.

But it seems easy enough to do that via my existing Google Drive account. So that is what I will do.