Video Delivered on Thumb Drives

1. EarlC
   Moderator

   

   I've delivered video on a USB drive, Thumb drive, flash drive — whatever you want to call it. There's upsides and downsides, mostly having to do with cost of delivery and the clients' willingness (or not) to pay a premium for this method.

   Have any of you delivered video product on a thumb drive? Care to share how you did it, what you did, or your secrets/resources for doing so? Any issues such as capacity, capability for playback etc.?

   I have an article about this on my video marketing and production blog at E.C. Come, E.C. Go - if you want to read my views on the matter of non-DVD delivery formats, specifically the ever popular thumb or keychain USB drives.

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. birdcat
   Moderator

   

   I have delivered programming solutions on both thumb drives and portable hard drives - CompUSA has 16GB thumb drives for $20 and CostCo has 1 TB portable HD's for $100.

   Although, you can put 25 GB on a data BD-R for about $1 (if you buy a spindle full) which is very cost effective.

   Bruce Paul
   7Squared Productions
   http://www.7squared.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. composite1
   Moderator

   

   Earl,

   Actually delivering on a thumb drive is pretty smart and economical. Now obviously you wouldn't deliver a Digital Print on one because of the file size (unless they start making 250GB or bigger thumb drives.) But for a single clean MP4 or MPEG2 ready for the web or DVD transfer it's perfect. The main issue would be how the client would perceive getting their deliverable on a Cruzer Drive! You'd have to sell them on the idea of it saving money vice burning it to Blu-Ray or coughing up an entire hard-drive. Except for serious techno types, people who are aware of USB drives don't consider them something a pro would put a deliverable on. I put entire presentations with video on one and offload it onto the host machine. When I'm done, it's a quick stroke to delete it from their machine and I'm off to the next with my cruzer around my neck.

   H.Wolfgang Porter, Composite Media Producer
   Dreaded Enterprises Unlimited, Inc.
   http://www.dreadedenterprises.com

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. Don
   Member

   

   Just about anything that will fit on a thumbdrive is easily deliverable on my mobile me account.

   I can dump it onto my idisk public folder, sync it, email them a time limited link with passcode and they got a set amount of time to download it.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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