Laserschwert said:

negative1 said:

harmy brings up a very good point.
a 720p release of the data first would get people

something to work with first, in a much smaller

set, but still enough to work on.

Though I don't think that's what Harmy meant ;-)

I think it was just an example to point out that a 2k sized version of the raw version doesn't need to be in the terabyte region.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Even just a high bitrate 1080p h264 encode of the raw files would probably do nicely too and that wouldn't have to be over 50GB. I definitely wouldn't go under 1080p with this. Distributing anything as Tiff image sequence seems pretty dumb to me (no disrespect meant) as it will be unnecessarily huge without offering any substantial advantage in quality. Even a png image sequence would likely be a better choice but a freeware lossless video codec such as Ut Video or Lagarith would probably be the best choice.

And as to your personal convenience (which quite understandably has to be an issue) I'm convinced that encoding and uploading a 2K/1080p less than 200GB lossless video file would be more convenient (and less time consuming) than copying 6TB to an external HDD several times; The average speed of copying data to a USB HDD is around (usually under) 20Mb/s, so copying 6TB to a USB device would take days!