At CES Vimeo announced increasing the upload limit (for Pro Members) from 2GB to 5GB, which is just enough for 2.5 hours of full HD content.
That’s a lot and for many ministries and churches who have some seriously-long sermons and HD content this is a complete win.
Pro Accounts are only $60 bucks a year – what are you waiting for? We use them here at 8BIT and we love it.
Are you using Vimeo yet? What service have you opted for instead?
[via PRNewsWire]
Carl Thomas says
Now that Youtube has the extended accounts. What is the advantage to Vimeo other than being “cool?” This is not a dig, its a real question.
Vince Marotte says
For us there are a few solid features that make it better:
>more elegant embed
>better HTML5 embed
>beautiful RSS feeds for multiple channels
>for now the site isn’t full of trolls
>limit domains that embed video
>overwrite already uploaded videos
>upload a thumbnail image
Kenny says
I have a Vimeo Pro account too. But as hosting account have gotten equally generous with space and bandwith allowances, I’m wondering if it is time to self-host/serve up video from my own hosting accounts.
I’d probably still syndicate videos out to Vimeo and other places as a part of content distribution strategy. but what’s your response to that kind of shift in work flow and strategy?
And @Carl Thomas – I’d urge you to consider uploading your video content to both outlets, not just one.
Carl Thomas says
But you have to pay Vimeo. If you are thinking about self hosting I would look at Amazon Cloudfront.
Adam Hann says
We use vimeo and love it. Great clean player, easy to use, great support.
It’s simple and it works.
April says
Is this 5GB per upload or total?
John Saddington says
per upload per week!
Tim Gruber says
I was just hired as a Media/Tech Director at my church, and we’re About to get Vimeo going for all our Video stuffs. Previously the church has used some weird Player for videos that they had our website manager upload on to where our webpage is hosted. The video quality is rough, and the player is too.
I’m excited to get Vimeo going so that when we upgrade to full HD, we can have somewhere else to put it and not worry about running out of server space.