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In the digital era, a video artist [1] is in need of very fast and inexpensive services to help him throughout his workflow. What I have in mind to tell you is how Rapidshare helps me out delivering video and really big image files to my clients.

Some of you might say it isn’t a big deal since there are so many “free” big file downloading hosts.
Yes there are!

But rapidshare (at least works for me) is one of the fastest because it  has the infrastructure required to meet high demands of traffic. Rapidshare has several petabytes (a petabyte is a million gigabytes) of storage capacity and an internet connection that transfers hundreds of gigabytes simultaneously. Pretty awesome?

So when the client wants to see video preview of w.i.p [2], I render a mpg video preview and upload it to the host late at night. In a couple of hours (depends on the upload speed), rapidshare robot sends an automated email to the corresponding address with a one-click downloading link. The client clicks the link and the transfer begins.

Rapidshare works in two ways, as a free user or premium. You can use the service without registering a premium account, meaning you are not facilitate rapidshare at full speed (the host announced downloading speed up to 100mbit per user if applicable and all free user accounts up to 1mbit).

There are several subscription plans for the premium account such as monthly, 3-month, 6-month and one year. My account is one year plan (offers a 34% off) and I use for my clients (if the don’t have one already) the one month premium account. You see, I use a little marketing trick here. I offer them to register them as a premium user through the official rapidshare reseller and I include the expense in the final project fee. So they think it is a value add I offer exclusively to them, and they thank me for myself doing all the “hard work”, pretty nasty?

The conclusion is that I do my job easily, fast and reliable, the clients are happy because they can have samples of work in progress at a glance and without any hassle.

Click to buy a rapidshare premium account

[1]as a video artist I mean the editor, motion graphics designer, vfx artist, 3D modeler, texturer, animator, compositor, rotoscoper, audio engineer, freelancer, etc.
[2] work in progress

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