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Users online
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Daily Email Update
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Converting time during transcoding
Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
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Removing Video Thumbnails
Everytime you upload a video, you get 12 thumbnails to choose from. Now, a month from the day you upload your video, we will automatically remove any unused thumbnails. But you will always be able to upload your own.
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Improved Searching
We've been waiting for this. The toolbar search is now much more accurate.
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Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
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Better referrer statistics
Now we record every page that videos get embeded on, check it out in the stats section to the right of any video page.
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Share on MySpace
Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
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Badge additions
You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
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New Hubnut Behavoir
From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
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Search Channels
Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' box in the top navigation bar, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
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Posting to Flickr
It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
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Expanded Tag Browsing
Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
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New Avatar Feature
Clicking any "avatar" aka user portrait will bring up a menu of actions you can take regarding that user. Use this menu to add contacts, subscribe to videos, and send messages to users you see on Vimeo
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Sorting Channels
Now you can sort channels in the Channels Directory. Just click on the headers like 'videos' or 'subscribers' and it will sort accordingly. We're one step closer to searching for Channels! Yay!
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Spam Filters
We've recently rolled out some great new spam filters that we think will help keep spammers off of Vimeo. Of course its impossible to stop ALL spammers, so if you ever see any send an email to Help@vimeo.com and we'll take care of it.
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Add Multiple Email Addresses
Now you can add multiple email addresses to your account and then sign in with any of them using the same password. Just set one as your main address, verify it after we send you an email, and you're all set.
Staff Blog / Video Page Has Been Drastically Improved
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Video Page Has Been Drastically Improved
Good afternoon. Our designers and engineers finished the new video page. Take a look at Remyyy's video Break Time to see it in action.
I think it is a huge improvement over the previous version. Here's what's new:
- Bigger video: 506 pixels wide instead of 460.
- Better quality video: 500kbps, instead of 400kbps (Down the road, we will convert your old videos to higher quality automatically; if you want it now, you can Replace the video)
- Better video player: faster, you can Share, Embed, or Like it from anywhere you can watch it (Albums, Channels, or on external sites).
- There's now a separate Settings page for each video. This means no more clumsy in-line editing.
- New upload page: It's actually built-in to the settings page. So you can upload and edit clips in the same way, instead of having two separate interfaces. The uploading process is more stable and responsive.
- Easier, faster friend finder for cast and privacy. It shows your contacts, by default, instead of any random users who match your search text.
- The Share and Embed popups are much easier now; try them!
- If the video belongs to a Channel or Album, you will see it prominently next to the video. This will help you discover other related videos, but tastefully, ie, instead of plastering "Related Videos" thumbnails everywhere.
Coming soon:
- "My Videos" will only be videos you uploaded (ie, back to normal!). You will still be able to browse all videos you have a credit for, but they won't be "your" videos.
- New home page, making it easier to discover new videos and to manage your inbox. We're simplifying things.
- iPhone integration. Not really but I wish; the YouTube app on there sure does suck. "Oh, hey, I can watch 'The Evolution of Dance' again, great." Apple, what's going on? How about allying yourself with a company that complements, not contradicts, your philosophies?
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What if instead of having popups, the option panels for share and embed cover over the video playlist and related connection sections?
ps: thanks for the heads up regarding safari. we will look into it.
While I doubt many (if any) vimeo users will spend 10,000 words writing about the creative process that went into their video, but even a 500 word explanation would consist of a lot of scrolling at the current font size. That's why I think Jakob has a good point about dynamic adjustment in relation to the amount of text that goes into a description. Five-50 words? Leave it the size that it is. Five hundred words? It would need to be smaller.
1280x800
(Have not yet tried out the rest.)
Thank you vimeo. Very excited. Uploaded one clip and it looks great, even though the clip was shot at 15fps. But still, colors will be so much richer.
Also I like the onscreen embed, full-screen, share and HD indicator.
The description area though is double-spaced. Why is that. It takes up too much space. How do you change the description? Oh wait. There it is in "Settings." That wasn't what i was looking for but I found it pretty quick.
Actually I like that. Only thing can there be a way to change the Font size? I don't care about color or type, just the size is too big.
I'm about to upload another clip.
Took me some tinkering to find the ideal setting for this. I still get really huge file sizes for a 1:30 clip. 141MB at h.264 settings. Can probably down the quality a bit.
The upload will be done in about an hour.
phew!
I have to apologize to anyone at Canon I might have insulted while I was complaining about the ads. FUCKING WORTH IT!
Also share and embed don't seem to be working
I love the broken heart for when you un-like a clip!
brought to you by the fine folks at vimeo :)
Is that TK?
Thanks.
thanks!
But I miss the context browsing thing, where I could make the browser switch from clips I like, to clips with dalas, to clips in my subscriptions etc.
One thing I would change. Put the video in the centre of the page instead of one the left, and have the newer and older clips on either side.
Then it would be perrrrrrrrfect.
Only problem is the large descriptions.
I can see that getting annoying.
Especially whilst watching Julia Allison's videos, where the descriptions are long and detailed.
I don't want to scroll down so much just to leave a comment.
You say: "We're simplifying things." Simplicity is good.
One minor bug: the downloads seem to be available even when "Allow other people to download the source video" in privacy settings is checked.
Also ... a new iMovie tutorial would be helpful so we can know the best way to export our clips for the new "look".
Or better yet, color options?
why 506
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For clip descriptions, can we choose colors or at least get a slightly darker grey?
Vimeo seems too well-designed to be the result of serendipitous design inspiration, but I never see anything about the process...
I like how the new desciption type is occupying the space on the page, but I think it could be smaller to help viewers eyes move across sentences, left to right, easier. It would give the letterforms greater continuity and give the page a stronger informational hierarchy.
Isn't that kind of subjective and impossible to use as a foundation for decision-making?
Also, I think that "accomodating everyone's needs equally" is much different than "'till it makes sense to everyone"....and it's good to hear that.
I guess that what I was originally trying to say is this:
I'm curious about Vimeo's design process. What does it look like? Do things get emailed around a lot or printed out + pinned up? How did you guys sell eachother on that typeface and size and color? On what grounds did dissenters object? Was there any disagreement?
Does Vimeo intentionally build a design discourse or is it something that flows out, more organically, from the people who are present?
I feel like Vimeo is the banner in some parade led by Jacob Lodwick where everyone's screaming, "hey! things can be simple and beautiful and really nice to use!!!"
It's great and for me, as a student, it's inspiring. Cheers.
I think the design on the new page is aesthetically fantastic -- I love how the content seems optimized to appear above the break. It just seems odd that the accessibility design might cheapen the experience for those with poor monitors or visual disabilities.
Everything the vimeo does outside the "recommendations" seems to be done because those recommendations don't always help the end user. Save this one issue, it's an excellent example of the distinction between design and aesthetics.
Thank you!