attaching videos to emails

[Amin]

Hi i have created presentation and linked it with video files. the files are
about 50mb each and i have also packaged it for a folder and have moved the
folder into a zip folder. but am having difficulties in sending it out as an
attachment with my outlook. the office application am using is 2007, any
assistance out there.

 

[dlw]

how big is the zip folder? usually video doesn't reduce much when zipped.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi i have created presentation and linked it with video files. the files
are
about 50mb each and i have also packaged it for a folder and have moved
the
folder into a zip folder. but am having difficulties in sending it out as
an
attachment with my outlook. the office application am using is 2007, any
assistance out there.

What do you mean by "difficulties"? Any error messages? Exactly what
happens?

E-mail is not a good medium for transferring large binary files. Let's say
you have high speed cable at 6MB/sec (megabits per second) - we'll ignore
the fact that the advertised speeds are larger than the actual transfer
speeds.. It would take about 80 seconds to transfer one 50Mb (megabyte)
file. Include, say, three of those files and it would take over four
minutes. Now, add in an antivirus program scanning that outgoing mail (many
people do this, as pointless as it is) and you're looking at a significant
delay. Factor in a send/receive interval that's less than ten minutes, a
server timeout value in the two to three minute range, the fact that many
ISPs don't allow the sending of files that large, and the fact that your
recipient's mailbox may not be able to receive that much, and you've got a
great recipe for failure. If you have ADSL high speed, with upload speeds
limited to 512 to 768Kbm/s and you're really stuck.

 

[Amin]

Hi thanks contacting me, the files i have linked are three videos and each is
66MB

 

[Amin]

hi Brian thanks for your coments. however, what am having trouble with is
what you just discussed. my files are three and each is above 60MB and i send
them linked in a presentation that has been packaged in a folder that i have
ziped in other to reduce it. after emailing it its been in my outbox for over
10 minis and hasn't gone

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

hi Brian thanks for your coments. however, what am having trouble with is
what you just discussed. my files are three and each is above 60MB and i
send
them linked in a presentation that has been packaged in a folder that i
have
ziped in other to reduce it. after emailing it its been in my outbox for
over
10 minis and hasn't gone

Like I said, email wasn't designed to send that much data. Binary files
won't compress much, if at all. You have 180Mb of data or 1.8GB (gigabits)
At 6MB/s, that's a best-case transfer time of five minutes. Your transfer
time depends entirely on your network bandwidth, which you haven't revealed.
With home DSL service at an upload speed of 768KB/s, your transfer time goes
up to about 38 minutes. Plus you have the other factors I mentioned that
you didn't address.

Put it on a CD or DVD and send it by postal mail or put it on a web site and
let your recipients download it for themselves.

 

[Amin]

Brian i have just considered yor last suggeston which is to put the
presentation to website for download thanks so very much.