Large File Video Upload Site

We’re happy to announce the availability of a new service: video hosting for large files.

If you have an IFPA membership through Footbag Worldwide, we still highly recommend uploading your media through that superior interface for all media files that are below 100MB in size. This accounts for most of the files you’ll be publishing. But sometimes you have a project that is longer than usual, and/or perhaps you want to distribute it in a higher quality version.

Well, now you can send us an email to request FTP access to a special area we’ve created, just for these larger (footbag only!) video files. You’ll have to upload the file(s) though a traditional FTP client (as browser-based uploads are inherently “fragile”; if the upload is interrupted for any reason, you have to start all over again), but this is still a much better solution that using one of the myriad advertising-based file hosting services like “megaupload”. We can help you with the FTP part if needed.

We absolutely recommend that you still create an entry in your IFPA profile’s media gallery; they do provide the ability to add videos by linking to an external source (rather than uploading there directly). Once you’ve uploaded here, you can create an entry for it there, and simply provide the link we create here. Make sense?

http://community.freedomfootbags.com/ already has a couple of videos listed, but please do note that you’re not really meant to access the videos from this page. You’ll mostly be seeing links to videos in IFPA gallery pages or in the forums, where they belong.