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Reception of projects [message #265618]

Sun, 12 August 2007 21:47

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How projects arrive[ 24 vote(s) ]
1.	By courrier	0 / 0%
2.	By FTP	15 / 63%
3.	By Mail	5 / 21%
4.	Hand delivered	4 / 17%

Hello everyone,
the reason of my poll is this: I maybe moving to an area where (God forbid) there's no high speed Internet available right now. And therefore FTP would be excruciatingly slow. I can arrange to have an h.s.i. line at my day gig (yes I only master partime), and therefore do FTP from there, 5 days a week for 9 to 5. BUT I do plan on eventually going full time.

Could you live without FTP to and from your studios?

As usual, thank you in advance for your replies.

Oldfart
PS I guess there maybe a price to pay to move to God's country!

Denis Paquette

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265619 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Sun, 12 August 2007 22:22

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no way i could live without FTP.

satellite internet is for you i reckon

50/50 attended/unattended for me.. but 85% all projects are uploaded to my server via web/ftp.

latency is an issue with satellite, but once u have a connection (download a flie for example) its pretty good.
so, if u could get your clients to zip up the whole album.. it wouldn't be so bad.

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265623 is a reply to message #265619 ]

Sun, 12 August 2007 22:56

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jdg wrote on Sun, 12 August 2007 23:22

no way i could live without FTP.

satellite internet is for you i reckon

50/50 attended/unattended for me.. but 85% all projects are uploaded to my server via web/ftp.

latency is an issue with satellite, but once u have a connection (download a flie for example) its pretty good.
so, if u could get your clients to zip up the whole album.. it wouldn't be so bad.

Hi JDG,

do you mean to say , that your clients ZIP a project , then FTP it?

Oldfart

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265629 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Sun, 12 August 2007 23:29

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sometimes..
but i have my FTP server local in my studio.. but when i didnt, and my FTP server was hosted offsite, i had shell access and i would zip the files remotely.

you can also find windows server hosting that gives you remote desktop (RDP) so you can always zip them up that way too.

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265632 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Sun, 12 August 2007 23:55

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Easily 75% of unattended sessions come in via FTP. I'd bet that over half of attended sessions are "pre-delivered" via FTP also (which has saved some butts in many, many cases). A few years ago, both of those numbers were considerably smaller. Lately though, they don't seem to be shrinking at all. Less and less via physical delivery (tape aside, of course).

John Scrip
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Re: Reception of projects [message #265645 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 00:26

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Thanks guys,

I've started looking into "Satellite internet service". I'll be starting another topic on this.

Oldfart

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265679 is a reply to message #265645 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 06:25

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Probably half of my projects now come in via FTP, though the other half are still coming in via mail/courier. I couldn't live without our FTP server.

Not sure what your options are, other than working at your primary job for now and waiting to reevaluate your options once you are ready to go full-time...

Good luck!

Brad Blackwood
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Re: Reception of projects [message #265697 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 08:10

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40-50% of projects coming in via FTP, but 90% of my work is unattended, and most of those projects go through some amount of online approval. So I'd be hosed without good internet access, even for jobs coming in on tape.

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265741 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 10:57

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Heck, I'm in Brooklyn in a neighborhood that is only 15 minutes from probably one of the highest concentrations of musicians around - and get a pretty large percentage of attended sessions - but there's still no way I could live without FTP - I'd say about 40% of jobs come in via it also.

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Re: Reception of projects [message #265745 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 11:17

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I'm not sure if folks are lumping together other forms of file transfer as "FTP", but yousendit.com, as well as other forms of file upload/download are also popular here.

Tom Volpicelli
The Mastering House Inc.
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Re: Reception of projects [message #265748 is a reply to message #265745 ]

Mon, 13 August 2007 11:25

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masterhse wrote on Mon, 13 August 2007 12:17

I'm not sure if folks are lumping together other forms of file transfer as "FTP", but yousendit.com, as well as other forms of file upload/download are also popular here.

Lots of ftp here as well. A little bit from other internet services, but mostly ftp. Couldn't live without high speed access. Not only for recieving, but sometimes for posting examples for approval and such.

Jay Frigoletto
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Re: Reception of projects [message #266178 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Tue, 14 August 2007 23:41

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Tons of FTP here. I'd guess 80% or more of my work comes in from out of town and probably 95% of my sessions are unattended (weird how much that has changed over 13 years). I still get an occasional disc but downloading mixes and posting 44.1/16 refs is common practice here.

It's weird to think about how much the availability of FTP has changed sessions. Even my in town clients will often tell me to just post refs.

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Re: Reception of projects [message #266220 is a reply to message #266178 ]

Wed, 15 August 2007 06:59

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Much of my work is local. I get masters mostly in the mail or hand delivered. I don't use FTP that much. I have slow DSL .

Paul Gold
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Re: Reception of projects [message #266229 is a reply to message #265745 ]

Wed, 15 August 2007 08:19

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masterhse wrote on Tue, 14 August 2007 02:17

I'm not sure if folks are lumping together other forms of file transfer as "FTP", but yousendit.com, as well as other forms of file upload/download are also popular here.

x 2, incl DigiDelivery - very handy.
Though, for me, probably 50% attended sessions/hand delivered & most non-attended are still via the post.

Adam Dempsey
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Re: Reception of projects [message #266256 is a reply to message #265618 ]

Wed, 15 August 2007 10:50

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I have one client that uses digidelivery though I'm not sure that I see the advantage over ftp outside of notifications.

Bob Boyd
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Re: Reception of projects [message #266259 is a reply to message #266256 ]

Wed, 15 August 2007 11:02

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Bob Boyd wrote on Wed, 15 August 2007 10:50

I have one client that uses digidelivery though I'm not sure that I see the advantage over ftp outside of notifications.

Some FTP servers allow you to email notifications when files are uploaded and/or downloaded...

Brad Blackwood
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