I use it constanly, have the Plus account, and love it. It's great for previewing content for clients, as it has privacy settings that allows you to use a password for uploaded videos to avoid public viewing of clients' clips.

It also has a very active and creative user community, perhaps because it only allows user-generated content on the site, unlike YouTube.

I use it for small home videos of my son and password protect them so just family and close friends can see them.


However, when it comes to work, I use blip.tv as they only have a 1gig limit per file (with no limit on how many you can upload a week) and the majority of my files for work will exceed the 500meg limit set by vimeo for a weekly upload.

In addition, I can upload my own flash file for them to use in addition to the original source file (it can be whatever you want- DivX, wmv, mp4, etc.). This way I don't have to use a lower quality flash file and I can still embed my original file into my website if I want while they host it.

Oh wait, this was supposed to be about Vimeo wasn't it? :)

j razz

hi grazie,

hope your surviving the icy conditions - at least you wont have problems with pc overheating ;-)

been using vimeo for yonks, not paid account, but all the same a great site for video. much better than revver (which i used to use), and infinitely better than you tube.

have a good new year

leslie

btw. i note j razz above - looked at blip, looks good, but i've found that for 'finished' work people are still very wary of 'large' files - so i try and keep mine as user friendly as possible. for client work i use a paid mediafire account - much more controllable and unlimited in size.

Second what everyone has already said.

Prefer Vimeo as it doesn't have all the guff around it that YouTube has. I have also found it has easier user controls and better hi-res encoding than YouTube, though YouTube has improved lots in the last while for HD content.

Personally, I think that HD stuff looks better on Vimeo from what little I have experimented.

HTH,
Tom

I use it and have the premium account - great to share video with friends and family - The reason I use the premium service to allow larger uploads. Quality is pretty good - not great, but pretty good.

up to 1gb per upload and 5GB / week with premium -
up to 500mb / upload and per week with the free service

No new news to anyone, I love Vimeo and have for quite sometime. I wish they would get rid of some of their content rules but beyond that have a Plus account and a huge advocate.

- Ray
Underground Planet

Like everyone else I'd prefer to use Vimeo. Snag I've struck with clients is they prefer YouTube as it seems to work better for those with slow connections and/or slow PCs.
Seeing as how YouTube is free no reason not to use it and Vimeo.
Bob.

I guess I should have said the same Bob, YouTube seems a necessary evil though if I had my druthers I'd never post there. What I usually do with my stuff is post it at first on Vimeo and encourage my clients to embed from Vimeo. If for some reason they insist on it going to YouTube immediately I oblige otherwise, since I so much prefer the quality of Vimeo once the initial rush dies down I'll eventually adding it to my YouTube page even though I never really point people there or embed from there.

- Ray
Underground Planet

any experience re what's allowed, as vimeo does not allow any kind of "commercial video" content, per their guidelines:

http://www.vimeo.com/guidelines

Do Not Upload Videos Intended for Commercial use. You may not upload commercials, infomercials, or demos that actively sell or promote a product or service.

Which would make it not available for me, as I'd want to post videos designed to promote my dvds, eg trailers/promo ad spots.

-k

YouTube has privacy settings too.

I think Vimeo must be for people that can't figure out how to just embed a video in a regular old webpage and serve it up from their existing website.

Just another way to nickel and dime people.

> "I think Vimeo must be for people that can't figure out how to just embed a video in a regular old webpage and serve it up from their existing website." Correct on both counts for me - I don't have a WEBSITE! Yeah, big wimp here . . .

> "Just another way to nickel and dime people." - Eh? Can you translate that into this-side-of-the-pond "language"?

Grazie

Well, if you have a hosted domain, even the cheapest package provides ASP2 service, and allots you 50G traffic a month.

Just make a simple web page and embed the video as an object and play it locally or call a player.

Superb Internet Hosting is a good cheap host, and Flowplayer is a good free player, also JW Player is popular.

If you use the ON2 decoder, it makes the HTML for you. You can make the page in Word or Notepad. Or just go to a page anywhere that has video playing and view the source and copy the codeblock.

Let YouTube optimize the video and then download the FLV or H.264 version using YouTube Downloader at Altavista.

If this is too much to do, just embed the URL from YouTube on your webpage just like you do here. If you want separation between clients just make a crazy number scheme to name the web pages.

"Nickel and Dime" means getting a very small fee X hundreds or thousands of subscribers = a nice dependable cashflow that no one customer can take away.

Talking about it, has anyone tried the pro account on Wordpress? If you hav a blog account, and upgrade it (pay for it) you are allowed to upload videos for your readers to watch. I wonder how well this functions.

And about using your own server - I have my own server, but I know that if more that 2-3 people try to watch the video at the same time, the system will be choked.
Ingvar

Bud, to a degree you may be right, but only to a degree. I had built the website that had served me for years. I did indeed encode via Sorenson and used Dreamwaver to make my pages. It was a pain to be sure and one I don't miss. At that time YouTube wasnt an option and even when it became one there was no way I was going to let my work be seen in the junk quality it offered at the time. The hassle was worth it because I wanted the higher quality that doing it myself afforded. These days go its just so much simpler to use a third party. Upload, copy code, paste, done. And though I have a Plus account at Vimeo I could certainly get by without it. I don't usually upload the amounts allotted but upgraded as much to support the service than anything else, though I do like being able to customize the player and remove their branding. Being able to embed in HD even though it has a limit on plays without paying more is nice as well, I have it enabled for all my vids to be playable in HD on my site. To me though even when I embed elsewhere and it's not HD I still think it looks pretty awesome.

So for an optional sixty bucks a year I save myself a lot of time and stress. I would hardly say that they are nickel and diming though, I think its a great service thats worth every penny.

- Ray
Underground Planet