Here is what I am trying to accomplish. My dad is a middle school teacher who takes about 70 kids in grade 8 to Ottawa, Canada every year as an educational trip to learn about the country and visit the museums and other attractions. He is also quite the videographer and every year for a decade or more he has been video taping these trips and editing them using iMovie/Final Cut, then making them available for the students after the trip.
Back in 2003 he would export the final product to VHS and from there copy to about 4 VCR's at a time until he had 70 tapes.
Soon after, he switched to DVD and was burning 70 DVDs among several machines. Each DVD he would run though an inkjet printer that prints directly on the disc.
He has been burning DVDs for years now, and I think it's time to switch to a more modern format: digital download. The process of making 70 copies of VHS/DVDs takes extremely long and no longer feels practical.
What I am thinking of is offering a way for dads students to give their email address to my dad and when the video is ready, send them an email that provides a link for the download.
The issues I'm facing would are:
-being able to track each link and how many times they were clicked. I'm thinking bit.ly can pull this off for me.
-having some kind of user verification. I'm thinking providing a code in the email that the user can enter on the website, unlocking the video download link. Does anyone know of any web service that could do something like this?
-Hosting large file. Can anyone recommend a host that could host a large 1-2GB file for a period of a few weeks that wouldn't limit downloads. We are willing to look at paid options.
If anyone has any ideas that would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to be able to help him with this.
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Here is what I am trying to accomplish. My dad is a middle school teacher who takes about 70 kids in grade 8 to Ottawa, Canada every year as an educational trip to learn about the country and visit the museums and other attractions. He is also quite the videographer and every year for a decade or more he has been video taping these trips and editing them using iMovie/Final Cut, then making them available for the students after the trip.
Back in 2003 he would export the final product to VHS and from there copy to about 4 VCR's at a time until he had 70 tapes.
Soon after, he switched to DVD and was burning 70 DVDs among several machines. Each DVD he would run though an inkjet printer that prints directly on the disc.
He has been burning DVDs for years now, and I think it's time to switch to a more modern format: digital download. The process of making 70 copies of VHS/DVDs takes extremely long and no longer feels practical.
What I am thinking of is offering a way for dads students to give their email address to my dad and when the video is ready, send them an email that provides a link for the download.
The issues I'm facing would are:
-being able to track each link and how many times they were clicked. I'm thinking bit.ly can pull this off for me.
-having some kind of user verification. I'm thinking providing a code in the email that the user can enter on the website, unlocking the video download link. Does anyone know of any web service that could do something like this?
-Hosting large file. Can anyone recommend a host that could host a large 1-2GB file for a period of a few weeks that wouldn't limit downloads. We are willing to look at paid options.
If anyone has any ideas that would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to be able to help him with this.
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