Staff Blog / Upload Videos Automatically from Dropbox
We’ve been working with our friends over at Dropbox to give everyone a cool new way to upload videos. Starting today, you can marry your Vimeo and Dropbox accounts to seamlessly upload your video files directly from Dropbox.
Here are just a few reasons why it’s cool:
- If you depend on Dropbox for syncing and storing all your videos files, you don’t have to visit Vimeo to upload them again. One less step!
- Auto-upload any video you save to Dropbox. Just choose your auto-upload folder, save a video there and we’ll handle the rest.
- When uploading from Dropbox, you can leave the browser window as soon as you start uploading. No need to babysit a progress bar.
If you already use Dropbox to backup and save your videos, this integration should make your life a lot easier. For more information about how to set it up, visit our FAQ. We’re constantly updating our uploading features, including being able to choose any frame of your video as a thumbnail, and we’re going to be announcing more in the coming weeks.
Connect your Dropbox to Vimeo and all this can be yours!
LOVE,
Vimeo
104 Comments
Warner Corporate Photography PRO
Guys, this is outstanding! It will add Vimeo uploading to many devices and make batch export & uploads much, much easier!
Lloyd Cook
Great work team!
Joao
That's really great!
Lonny Quattlebaum PRO
The thumbnails thing is pretty awesome.
Matt Laurence Plus
Absolutely agree!
Kaspars Garda Plus
++++++++ YES !
Herb Halstead
when does this go live?
Andrew Pile Staff
It's live now! vimeo.com/settings/apps
Herb Halstead
thanks :-D
Jan Keck | Red Gecko Productions Plus
It's already live! Love the custom thumbnail feature!
Mark Toia Plus
f=great vid!
Ahmed Said Plus
lol love the way you explained it! :)
JK NEWS Bulletin Plus
what is the best setting to upload videos from dropbox to vimeo
jim parry
Except my videos were automatically uploaded without my permission... I'm glad I didn't have a sensitive document like a work presentation our even worse......!??!?!??!?!
Pablo Apiolazza Plus
How come you change the upload to automatic without warning or even asking users? This is plain wrong!
Tyler Twombly
Hey, wow...I am sort of new to Vimeo and I really like it. That forest creature is bad-ass at explaining stuff.
InterMotion Media Plus
I'm just discovering this relationship between dropbox and vimeo and loving it! Though I can't figure out if vimeo searches subfolders or if I need to have all of my videos directly in the one dropbox folder that I point vimeo to. Thanks
Timur Tregulov Plus
Hi!
If One's Video is a training or a course that's on sale, is there an option for securing video matireals from pirats or one's downloading it?
YogaHub Plus
Timur,
Yes this is possible, assuming you have a PRO or paid account. There's a way to set the default video properties for every video uploaded to your account. Then all new videos uploaded via DropBox would just inherit those properties. So if you provide paid content, you should have a PRO account anyways, and it's always safer to lock your content by default and then manually unlock the video if it's a promotional vid for the public.
YogaHub Plus
Super Mac user tip!
We just automated our video workflow at YogaHub.TV and now all videos are rendered out of FCP X, placed into our special DropBox folder, uploaded to Vimeo (and YouTube) and then we use Hazel to automatically migrate and compress the files off to our Drobo for archive.
What a beautiful thing!