OT: Vimeo

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/9/2013, 9:34 PM

Dan,
You need to go through their HELP mechanism.

I had problems quite a while back, same as you, and more than once they blamed the browser being used for the upload. I did switch to IE for uploading back then and it seemed to be faster. Nonetheless, upload was a huge PITA.

I am sure you'll find a number of threads on their HELP forum dealing with the issues. Perhaps they're back.

Tom

VidMus wrote on 2/9/2013, 10:20 PM

I find it best to upload private videos to my website and then send out private links to my clients.

They get an un-reprocessed video and see it they way I meant for them to see it.

There will be none of the problems that Vimeo causes by re-processing them. Yes, clients can download the original video from Vimeo but then with your own site there is no waiting for the video to finally be made available. I use the free player StrobeMediaPlayback.

http://www.osmf.org/strobe_mediaplayback.html

I use it, it is simple and I get the results I want. Clients can download the video from my site as well.

I use it with all of the Church videos I do which can also be downloaded.

I render to a temp uncompressed *.AVI file and then create the final *.MP4 with Hand Brake using a batch file. The *.AVI files are big but the entire process is a whole lot faster and I get the results I want.

Danny Fye
www.dannyfye.com/ccm

Grazie wrote on 2/10/2013, 3:09 AM

+ 1 Danny!

Oh yes . . . .

G

PeterWright wrote on 2/10/2013, 3:38 AM

Danny I've often wondered about this, and have much unused space ...

The thing I don't know is how to make the video PLAYABLE directly from my website rather than Downloadable, which I've done many times with ftp.

Can you help?

Peter

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/10/2013, 6:51 AM

Peter,
I use JW Player on my website. It's free for non-commercial use. It is HTML5 enabled and can play MP4 files just fine.
Tom

VidMus wrote on 2/10/2013, 12:38 PM

@PeterWright

I am doing church video work all day today so I will get back on here later with the workflow and html I use.

Danny Fye
www.dannyfye.com/ccm

Dan Sherman wrote on 2/10/2013, 7:30 PM

Thanks All!
Pardon my ******* ********.
Thanks Tom!
The issue appears to have been Fire Fox.
Am uploading now through IE.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 2/10/2013, 7:42 PM

GR8. :-)
Tom

VidMus wrote on 2/11/2013, 7:33 PM

@PeterWright,

I have a 3 minute video of a storm that popped-up in the middle of the night. I grabbed my new Sony HDR-PJ710V and went out on my nice porch to get some video of it. I had the i-auto on at the time from playing around with it. Best thing about that is the camera can use the max gain without going to 30 fps. There is better low-light performance without the added noise. One of my goals was to get the storm and see if my 'shakiest hands in the west' could give me a steady shot or not. So please do not judge the video itself. The video was originally 16 to 255. I adjusted it to be 16 to 235. All of my Sony cams (5 of them) shoot 16 to 255.

http://www.dannyfye.com/Storm/Storm.html

I rendered the video using Video for Windows with a setting that matches my original video which is 1440x1080 and 1.3333. I use best with the Sony YUV Codec. Audio is 48k 16 bit stereo.

I tried the Avid codec but it is too slow when rendering . Use what works best on your system. My batch file is setup for *.AVI.

I then use my Hand Brake batch file to convert the video to MP4. My church videos use a lot lower bit rate because they are so long and I have to compromise between bandwidth and size. It is not possible to edit them down because of content.

Start Batch file '1280x720p-MP4.bat'
---------------------------------------------------------------
c:
cd \program files (x86)\Handbrake

HandBrakeCLI -i t:\videos\Storm.avi -o w:\videos\Storm.mp4 --optimize --crop 0:0:0 --width 1280 --height 720 --encoder x264 --vb 4000 kb/s
------------------------------------------------------------------
End batch file ' 1280x720p-MP4.bat'
Do not include the dashes above and below.

You will of course need to change the drive letters for your system.

I then create a folder for my web page called "Storm" and copy the Storm.mp4 video to it.

Next I create the HTML that will be used to play the video on my web site. Note: I learned HTML from the idiots guide and I edit my site with note-pad.

Start 'Storm.html'
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Storm</TITLE>

<body bgcolor="#000000">

<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright 2013 by Danny Lee Fye - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED">

</HEAD>

<CENTER>

 

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="1280" height="720"> <param name="movie" value="StrobeMediaPlayback.swf"> </param>

<param name="flashvars" value="src=Storm.mp4&autoPlay=true"></param>

<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>

<embed
src="StrobeMediaPlayback.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="1280" height="720" flashvars="src=Storm.mp4&autoPlay=true">

</embed>

</object>

 

</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--------------------------------------------------------------
End 'Storm.html

I will then copy the 'StrobeMediaPlayback.swf' file to that folder.

So there will be three files in the Storm folder.

(1) Storm.html
(2) Storm.mp4
(3) StrobeMediaPlayback.swf

Since I put the 'StrobeMediaPlayback.swf' file in that folder it is not necessary to include the complete path to it in the html. Sort of like with graphics in the same folder as the html is in.

I will then upload the folder to my web site, send the link to whomever and I am done.

If I send a link to someone using 'Storm.mp4' instead of 'Storm.html' I tell them to right click on the link and then save target-as to download the video.

My brain is in dud land tonight so I hope I got all of that right.

I hope this helps,

Danny Fye
www.dannyfye.com/ccm