PRORES vs PhotoJPEG

Seems Pond5 has to much money and they can afford to buy more servers rather than converting to different formats from the original file. Should have been done years ago.

I'm using Adobe Premiere for encoding. It's strange that I have such big files :\

@dapoopta and @rekindlephoto, we do offer conversions for buyers. They can write us a message and we'll happily convert their purchased clips to ProRes, H264, or PhotoJPEG--whichever they choose.

Also, whenever a clip is purchased, the clip is automatically converted to the other 2 codecs. For instance, if it's H264 it gets converted to ProRes and PhotoJPEG and will be available to download in those codecs.

@Meatster, you can always try downloading the free program http://www.squared5.com/ and convert your raw files to ProRes before putting in your sequence and editing and see if that helps with file size. You can send me screenshots of your project/sequence and your export settings and I can take a look and see why your files are so big.

If anyone works with Premiere primarily it would be great if you could also help out with why @meatster's files are so large!

Thanks!

Ryan
Pond5 Crew

Ryan what about converting to other formats such as 25, 24fps and what ever from 1920 29.97 which would sure save server space.

Hey Jason, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean we should convert 29.97 files to 24 to save frames and server space? Do you mean cutting down on frames will cut down on storage?

I think what Jason means is offering the buyer a frame rate conversion option so that if they see a clip they like that is 29.97FPS but they are working in Europe then the could request the file be converted to 25FPS. The trade off is that the converted file is rarely as good as footage shot at the native frame rate. How much "worse" it is depends partly on the converter and partly on the source footage.

TE

Back to the large file question... do you have alpha channel turned on? RGBA as opposed to RGB only? This will make a significant difference in size and should only be used for keyed files that need or show alpha transparency. Just a thought.