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File transfers now carry films and full cards

Send files up to 100 GB that survive a dropped connection, show films and photos before download, and download everything without the browser holding it.

A file transfer is how a finished film, a second shooter's card or a set of raw files gets to where it is going. Until now the studio's own upload sent each file in one go, one at a time, and could not take a file over a few gigabytes, which ruled out most finished films.

Sending

Each file can be up to 100 GB. Large files go up in pieces, so a wobble on the connection resends one piece rather than the whole film, four files go up at once, and the progress shows how much is left. Stop, close the laptop, and drop the same files again later: what already landed is skipped. A whole folder can be dropped, subfolders and all. Each file is on the delivery as soon as it lands, and the client is not emailed until everything has.

Receiving

The client's page shows photographs as a grid and plays films in place, so they can watch before they download. Download all no longer builds one archive in the browser: smaller files come as ZIPs in parts of under a gigabyte, written as they download, and big files download on their own, where the browser can pause and resume them.

Two days before a transfer's end date, a client who has not downloaded everything gets a reminder from you, with the link. Links past their date now show as expired in your list.