Making Video Files Private
1 February 2010
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Question: I wish to send a video to a friend. It is a home-video of several GB in size. Would you have any suggestion on how to make the video available to watch by friends, and in the same time keeping privacy?
Answer: Here’s what I would do.
1. Transcode the video to a smaller h.264 mp4 file using Handbrake.
2. Sign up for a Dropbox account and put the video in the folder called “public”.
3. Right-click the file to copy and paste a private link via email.
For added security, you can password protect the mp4 file using…
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