HDV==>Mov-PhotoJpeg or MotionJpeg B

A have a total bandwidth monthly limit of 40 gigs. When I convert HDV into MOV using PhotoJpeg at 80% spatial quality the video does not look smooth if there is movement in the scene. I would need to go all they up to 95% to make it look good. If I convert HDV into MOV MotionJpeg B at 80% spatial quality the video looks much better but it's 12 to 15% bigger in size. A 20 seconds clip is about +/- 1/2 gig. That means that I can upload only 1 clip a day without risking an additional charge from my internet provider. It also means that submitting to multiple sites will be very expensive. Is there a way around this? If Pond5 accepted mp4 100% quality clips the storage space and committed bandwidth would be much less.

you can look at using that http://www.isyndica.com/

I never use 80% quality, don't think buyers want that much of a compression. Motion and Photo JPEG are indeed much larger but that is the industry stock standard. A few agencies are starting to take other codex but many are difficult for many buyers to process or work with. That's why us "artists" are giving them the easiest format to work with. There are options like Scott said, expensive but maybe not as expensive as additional broadband charges. Good luck.

I will experiment by leaving the clips at 1080x1440 anamophic at 90% spatial quality and not upscaling them to 1080x1920. I'll see how it goes. Thanks for the advice.

You could also rent a cheap server somewhere in the states and remotely upload the clips to different stock agents. This way you only need to upload the clips once.

try isyndica for free, see what you think. There are other options, but don't seem as straight forward and easy. How much would your internet be if you changed to a different sub?

Eddie, how do you do that? Supposing I rent www.wideweb.com and transfer my files there. How do I transfer the files to P5?

Thats pretty easy.
You can rent a windows or linux server. (linux is probably cheaper because its "freeware")
You upload the files to the server the same way as you upload your files to p5 now (through ftp).
You remotely log in to the server and connect to the ftp from the stock agencies and upload the files from that remote server.

You don't even need a domain for it. its just a pc located somewhere else controlled remotely. However if you have the server anyway you could host some website on it also :)

I don't think i can explain it more clearly

Sounds complicated... You should make a Youtube How To Video. Maybe I'll just go to Starbucks with a laptop and upload while I enjoy a cup of coffee. Well maybe a few cups of coffee.

I personally use iSyndica. You upload your clips once there and they will upload it to all of the agencies you belong to. They also track sales data for most sites, which is also nice.

As Scott already suggested a couple of times, try their free account.