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Dave Farrants August 16th, 2018 01:25 PM

Re: Vimeo alternatives
 
I did get this sent as a marketing email a few days ago, maybe worth a look: https://appsumo.com/vooplayer/

Boyd Ostroff August 16th, 2018 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946062)
I just recently switched to a payed microsoft onedrive account to store films for clients to download, main reason was that it included 365office software at a very low price point.

I also just got Office 365 personal (got tired of fighting with my old copy of Office 2008, haha). It's $60/year and includes 1TB of OneDrive storage plus the office app for my Mac, iPad and iPhone. Seems like an unusually good deal for Microsoft.

Noa Put August 16th, 2018 02:45 PM

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also just got Office 365 personal
I got the same, for just a bit more; 99euro you can get 5TB and office365 which was a surprise as I would expect this price for either the hosting or the software but not as a combination, this was a no-brainer for me as 1TB allready is plenty for my needs.

Nigel Barker August 17th, 2018 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946065)
No idea how to accomplish that, my website is from wordpress and currently I just add the vimeo link in a post, does that work the same way with videos that are stored in the cloud?

There is of course a Wordpress plugin that will do this for you. In fact there is lots of info & documentation available on how to do this. LMGTFY

Nigel Barker August 17th, 2018 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946070)
I got the same, for just a bit more; 99euro you can get 5TB and office365 which was a surprise as I would expect this price for either the hosting or the software but not as a combination, this was a no-brainer for me as 1TB allready is plenty for my needs.

The best deal for storage is to sign up for G Suite for Business which gives you unlimited storage on Google Drive for $10/€8/£6.60 per month (the alleged 1TB limit for less than five users is not part of T&Cs & has never been enforced). I currently have over 20TB on Google Drive for £79.20.

Nigel Barker August 17th, 2018 12:52 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946070)
I got the same, for just a bit more; 99euro you can get 5TB and office365 which was a surprise as I would expect this price for either the hosting or the software but not as a combination, this was a no-brainer for me as 1TB allready is plenty for my needs.

This sounds like the Office 365 Home subscription that I have for £79.99/year which gives all the software for up to 5 PCs/Macs, 5 tablets and 5 phones plus up to 1TB storage each for up to five users. It's a great deal for family use.

Christopher Young August 17th, 2018 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946062)
I have checked it out and made a free account and eventough it looked promising I couldn't find a way to embed videos on my site, is there a possibility to do that?

Noa sorry I don't have an answer to that question as I've never had the need to embed anything. I mostly work for TV or the corporate world. For corporate clients I just upload and their web people download and do the embedding into their own sites.

Chris Young

Jeff Wisener August 18th, 2018 07:13 PM

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For the record, I live in Indonesia and you cannot even access Vimeo here unless you use a VPN. So really, for me to post on Vimeo here means a majority of people I know here are blocked from seeing posted videos on Vimeo. Moral to the story...things could be worse.

Nigel Barker August 20th, 2018 04:38 AM

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When I started doing video commercially about ten years ago I discovered Smugmug who are predominantly a site for hosting still photos but were then the only site where you could host 1080p video & then embed them on your own website. We used Smugmug to host our videos for several years before switching to Vimeo basically because the player can be nicely customised & uploading & management of videos was easier. There was nothing wrong with Smugmug just that Vimeo was a bit nicer.

Smugmug still offers video hosting along with still photo galleries but has never expanded the video option much & hosting is limited to 3GB or 20 minutes (whichever is larger).

Smugmug might be worth a look for those suffering Vimeo & YouTube problems. They offer a 14-day free trial. & the Basic plan is under $50/year.

Noa Put August 20th, 2018 06:53 AM

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I don't thing Smugmug hosts their own videos anymore? I just checked and the only embedded videos I could find on their website where all from YouTube?

Nigel Barker August 21st, 2018 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Noa Put (Post 1946147)
I don't thing Smugmug hosts their own videos anymore? I just checked and the only embedded videos I could find on their website where all from YouTube?

Smugmug originally hosted quite basic photo galleries but for a few years now have been offering very customisable websites as part of the photo hosting package so you can create your own photo oriented web site using their tools & can even sell your photos through your site.

You can still host video & photos on Smugmug & embed individual images or videos or whole photo galleries on your own site but you are also able to embed YouTube & Vimeo videos on your Smugmug website.

Steven Davis August 21st, 2018 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Boyd Ostroff (Post 1945942)
Saw this article a couple weeks ago and was thinking about posting here, but figured you guys already knew about it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...ool/848216002/

"My friend David Medill got the shock of his life this week when he was banned from the Vimeo video service for copyright violation. His sin: He makes wedding videos, and he sets them to the tunes of Ed Sheeran, Marvin Gaye and Father John Misty."

Yeah, I got a notice for a video I used where some kid was dancing. The music was live from the DJ, but it didn't matter. Ironically, I doubt they go after the guests who post the same.

Noa Put August 22nd, 2018 02:14 AM

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I doubt they go after the guests who post the same.
An important question would be, did you use that dancing kid footage with live played music in one of your videos that is posted online to promote your business? Using music that is played in the background is just the same as using unlicensed commercial music in your video even if you bought the song online for personal use, I could record that music right from the DJ's mixer and have it sound as clear as the original song, from the moment I put it in one of my videos it becomes a form of advertisement.

When a guest posts it on vimeo they don't make any money from it but also there the owner of the song has to decide if they will allow it.

John Peterson August 22nd, 2018 05:16 PM

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I would also like to come to Noa's defense regarding Vimeo. I dropped my subscription for the same reasons. Playback issues, buffering, stuttering. Clients complained and I had the problem too. My download speed is 300 and my upload speed is 28. My bandwidth is great by American standards.

John

Noa Put August 30th, 2018 02:49 AM

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I have been embedding one of my weddingvideos on my website from YouTube to test for a while, I just played that film from my website and it looked like 360P but if I clicked on the YouTube logo which took me the YouTube page it was HD quality.
Maybe it was a wrong setting again, don't know but the fact that the YouTube logo was so prominent on my mobile Phone I"m not looking into that direction anymore so still seachring and testing out other options.


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