Good evening,

Not being totally decided on my video hosting choice, I leave it to you. Below are the same video, one in QuickTime format, and the other the same QuickTime file uploaded to Vimeo. Actually, I should really upload another higher quality video to Vimeo to let it work with the highest quality possible (within my 500MB weekly limit, of course). Unfortunately, I don’t have access to my video editing software right now. I’m holding out for Final Cut Express 5 which should hopefully be released any day now!!!

Actually, looking at the recommended settings for Vimeo, the video file wasn’t created in the optimal settings. Vimeo likes 30fps, but it is 29.97fps (the NTSC standard). I also don’t have the keyframes set in their preferred method, and the bit rate is half of what they recommend for an SD source video.

QuickTime:

Vimeo from same source:

What do you think?

Howdy,

I'm pleased to say that my first experience with Vimeo was not typical. I have created and uploaded a video just under 20 minutes and just under 30 minutes, and there was of course some processing time (this is expected) and they didn't take seven hours to process a four second clip! I created the videos with a very low quality as proofs of concept, and the concept worked great! It really looks like Vimeo will allow you to have any length as long as the file size comes within the restrictions.

I've deleted the videos since they were only for me to test, so don't go looking for them.

My Vimeo page is here: http://www.vimeo.com/troydolyniuk

* Updated! *

Hi folks,

This post is just me testing different video hosting sites - nothing new to see here. If you like, send me an email with which one you think looks best. Also, please tell me what OS and browser you're using.

Thanks!

Facebook:


YouTube:


Vimeo:
(video uploaded, waiting for encoding...)
Update - it's been just under six hours since uploading the video and I'm still waiting in line for it to be converted. Really?!?
Update 2 - It took almost SEVEN HOURS before Vimeo had my video up. That's insane!

My first Blender animation - Yellow Submarine from Troy Dolyniuk on Vimeo.

Okay, now that all three are up, it looks like they are all about the same quality. This is good, because YouTube used to be much worse than the others, but it's really come a long way. I guess I should fill you in on the background - the reason I'm even considering another provider than YouTube is because of YouTube's ridiculous 10 minute limit for mere mortals like you and me. I haven't bumped into the 10 minute limit with any of my videos yet, but I just put one together for some friends of mine from their baby's baptism and it ran just under 15 minutes. If that was for my event, I'd want to put it up on the web, but YouTube would reject it.

Facebook has a 20 minute limit which is much better, and I'd jump there in a heartbeat except that the player window is only 400 pixels wide, not configurable. Sure, I can edit the code to make it 480 pixels wide (and I did but then undid), but the video is scaled up from 400 to the new size and fuzzy, not scaled down and crisp from the 1280 pixels wide I uploaded to the service in the first place.

Vimeo's free service lets me upload 500MB per week, but no word on length. My next test will be to use some or all of my remaining 498.3MB in this week's quota to upload a low quality but long video. I'll try for 20 minutes first, and if I still have room in my quota I'll try a 30 minute video too.

That's it for updates to this post. Any new information will go on a new post.

While the rain won’t seem to go away completely, at least now we’re getting sun with our rain. From the time I left work today until this evening when the sun set, there were sunshowers. Sometimes they were light, others (like when I left work and was walking to the bus stop) they were heavier. I took this photo and video this evening from the upstairs bedroom window at home.

Hi everybody,

On March 29th, a bunch of us took advantage of the unexpected dump of snow and went out to Holiday Mountain for one last trip out on the hills. As I mentioned previously, I rented ski boards (aka snow blades) and I really had a blast! I think I’m converted from snowboarding to skiboarding, or at least have both of them in my arsenal. The learning curve was very brief, I had a lot of fun, they are so much more convenient than snowboards, and I didn’t suffer my usual injuries whenever I head out to the snow hills!

It is so convenient to be able to move around at the top and bottom of the hill without having to take one foot out of the binding, then strap back up again, then back out, etc. for the day. Moving around is like ice skating. It’s a bit awkward at first (my rentals from Gord’s were probably about 80cm long - Ryan’s are 99.9cm long), but I quickly adapted.

We didn’t have many regulars out, but that’s okay because Dan brought his friend Luke, Adrian brought his friends Mike, Armando, and Lucas, and we met Salar and Yashar on the hill and hung out all day and even had lunch together too. Salar is the guy with the light coloured jacket on the snowboard getting crazy height on jumps in the video!

Anyway, here is the video page - enjoy!

It’s finally here! The Asessippi 2009 video you’ve all been waiting for.

I actually had the video finished yesterday morning, but since then I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to deliver it to you. I set the video to music rather than the whooshing on the snow which makes it much more engaging and enjoyable. However, I’ve noticed quite a few videos on YouTube lately that have had the entire audio track stripped from the video because of copyright violations. I do legally own the music I used in the video, but I didn’t want to chance any problems from YouTube with my video here so I’m hosting it on my site. This also gives me the ability to put it in QuickTime format which I find to be better quality than YouTube.

The video is 7:01 long. I hope you enjoy it! --> Asessippi 2009 video <--

Good morning!

I was involved in a small movie making project at work recently, and I found it to be really interesting and a lot of fun. Although I only saw a small portion of the video editing to make the final clip, it also looked like it was fun to do. Now, he was using professional level software (Final Cut Pro), but there are many other tools you can use for beginners like myself.

I have iMovie ’08 on my computer, but I’ve never used it. Well, I finally blew the proverbial dust off the program and gave it a go. I used the videos I had taken from the Holiday Mountain trip on January 2nd and combined them along with a title, credits, and probably more transition variations than you’d actually use.

For your enjoyment, I present a 5 minute video showcasing the snowboarding trip.