Drone Media Distribution

The major problem that a business that films footage on a drone in 4k video is getting that footage to their clients. Files are often in the multiple Gigabyte range.

DroneSafeTransfer say: Transferring ten minutes of 4K video to a client isn’t easy! - a 1 minute 4k file is approximately 300Mbytes. So that is 3Gbytes

These files can be edited, for content length and format. They can also be uploaded to file sharing services and YouTube, but at the preliminary stage they are not for sharing.

A solution to this is to have your own webserver

or you can pay someone else to set one up for you. It is a lot of work............ to do it yourself.

However, you will need to host your website (for video dstribution) locally as you need to copy the drone files from a local drive. The problem here is that normal file transfer protocols are too slow to send over the Internet, hence the problem.

Why is this a problem?

You might be thinking that with a fast Internet connection, such as fibre, there would be no problem in transfering files to a client or colleague. While a fast connection is a help the fundamental issue is that the transfer protocol is not capable of making the file transfer in an effecient manner. This is in part due to the error correction techniques used for a file transfer and the fact that a file once transferred has to be uncorrupted. Unlike streaming a large file from a server the program that is processing the download handles any errors it encounters and corrects for them or in an extreme case "buffers" the download and playback until sufficient corrections have been made.