Community Forums / General Discussion / more than 500 MB?

I personally think you should split a full length movie in smaller pieces. I don't want to preload a whole movie in my browser, especially if I've already watched 20 mins of the movie and only want to see the last 40 mins.

Good point- but still, I'd have to put those pieces up over a few weeks, which isn't the ideal :\

We will be offering a Pro account *very* soon which will allow for more upload space and many more cool new features. Stay tuned!

AWESOME Vimeo ROCKS.!

I seriously think Vimeo needs some Pro account. I would love to pay just to get rid of the adds alone.

(Hint: showing me the same ads over and over doesn't get me to click on it)

I'm eagerly looking forward to paying a flickr-style subscription rate to archive and organize my ever-growing HD videos.

i can't wait to get the pro account

Hmm, dunno... The advertisings.. I don't see them, because, I don't care for them. I don't need more than 500 megs a week, because I would never be able to produce enough material in a week. So, I think I don't need a pro-account. But I know there are some folks who love to see that they logged into a payed account :D *SCNR*

how long are those subscriptions? do you pay for a month, or a year or what?

It would be handy (allthough commercially not ideal) if you could subscripe for short periods of time for when you really need more upload space, but you can cope with 500 mb on regular periods.

I'm also curious, I have a non profit documentary that is 35 min @ mp4 h264 high quality, that's just under 800MBs. I know youtube offers a "directors" option, where if you are putting up a film they'll waive their file size limit. I wish vimeo had this kind of option (hopefully free?)

Its not a rip off ... server space costs money, and Video files take up huge amounts of space!

It would be nice if Vimeo ran a similar system to `Babelgum` this allows talented video Artists to lease their work through the site and split the profits 50/50 with the owners of the site - only if agreeded via a special contract, otherwise the film has full copyright protection to the creator of the works.

I would gladly pay a subscription to Vimeo as long as it did not exceed 3 dollars a month and it removed upload limits and ads.

I'm curious about this as well — and a batch uploader would be a big plus. I'm currently uploading a lot of videos to YouTube and appreciate their broad viewerbase and embedded players which display playlists, but the audiovisual quality and support are deeply lacking.

@Blake Whitman; any updates on the "*very* soon" coming Pro accounts?

Guys, would it be asking too much for you to pop in & give us an update on this Pro thing & a real ETA?? I think all your users deserve to know instead of getting the silent treatment, especially after it was implied by some staff members that it would be here by now. Thanks.

Lack of a pro account (or more bandwidth for uploading HD) keeps me from using this service.

It wold be most convenient for many of us, I think, if the restriction was not just for the uploading limit. For example, I have a file that is 676MB but I cannot upload it because it is more than 500MB. I believe there should be a limit as to HOW MANY FILES we can upload if the file is over the 500MB, kind of like an alternative. I hope the staff will take note of this suggestion.

How soon is "really" soon...?

I uploaded a 300mb 20 second HD video of my kid using the recommended settings from a video posted on here. If I had five of these videos to upload to share with friends and family it would take several weeks to get them all up. Not really what I'm looking for. I could host the video files on box.net and then point my blog to them, or use Apple's .mac service to post right from iMovie. Vimeo is not really that useful for me with that 500mb a week limit. Especially with HD. Its laughable really.

20 seconds using those recommended settings comes out to like 250mb. Not sure what kind of video you are creating, but HD is bandwidth intensive.

I think it would be cool if there was some type of alternative to uploading more then 500MB a week. I have a how-to blog and I'm currently making HD videos to go along with it. I've only uploaded three this week and I have three more to upload but I don't have enough space left. I can't really edit it down because then I'd be leaving a lot of important features out. I bet a lot of user would like a little more space. I don't have money to get my own website, I'm a broke college student. I love Vimeo though, but that's my only real complaint.

I think 500 meg a week is amazinly generous, but we are limited to short films if we want to upload HD content.
The new Flash format for HD compression is fantastic, and I have noted when loading large files, that certain file formats work better after vimeo re-converts our files to the new Flash HD format.
If I'm correct, a 500 meg mpeg2 is crunched to 50 meg by Vimeo's Flash file converter ... could it be possible one day to Flash convert our own files and upload direct without being re-converted?
We'd lose the large uncompressed 720p file storage Vimeo offers, but at least we could load up full lengh films and still keep the 500 meg limit in HD.
Another option is to offer subscriptions to those wanting more space, but unless your PC was designed by NASA, uploading a gig or more, even with a fast connection will take ages and will put extra stress on Vimeo's server.

Vimeo's upload speed is already capped to about 50 kbps, which is painfully slow for large files.

Overall I'm impressed at what can be done now - I own various servers and community based websites, so I know the technology needed to pull off this wonder.

I'm not going to moan, I think Vimeo need to be congratulated ... it offers so much, and its FREE!

Kindest regards
Chris

I’m broke without a steady job so I would rather not pay anything but since I have mostly HD content to post, 500 MB will not cut it for some of my files and I do understand why they would charge for the extra storage. They allow users to download the original video files, which is something most other popular sites don’t offer unless you pay. We all know that DivX offered everything for free and Vimeo would suffer the same faith if they become as generous as they were. I’m hoping it won’t be too expansive but the convenience of having much more storage will make me feel much better.

What vimeo already offers is nothing short of sensational. Of course, like any other enterprise it needs to keep progressing. I'm convinced that if positive changes can be done - with creative thought applied - vimeo will make them. I'm a grateful, trusting believer uploading with a mightily impressed grin.

More space would be fantastic, of course, but it doesn't hurt to pinch your skin now and again and wonder at just what a great service vimeo already is.

(I promise I am not creeping for a free 'pro' upgrade when it rolls out) (honest!)

A college student walks into the bar, and orders a drink. They drink the drink, and order another. They order 3 more drinks. After the college student has had their drinks for the night, they simply walk out not having paid for them, or a cover charge. When they get home, they tell others that it's not a good bar because they don't give you the bottle to let you pour your own drinks.

I know this sounds silly, but it's a fairly accurate analogy to what we have here. We are offered absolutely free HD video hosting. Enough to upload a short per week, or a dozen or more clips. And yet, people do nothing but complain. And the people who complain the loudest are those who are not willing to give a dime toward a pro account to meet their desire to place a far higher load on the servers.

They say you don't get something for nothing. But Vimeo offers a wonderful service free of charge to it's participants. But it's never enough.

Some people will NEVER be happy.

I'm still looking for this pro account. I will gladly pay to be able to upload videos more frequently and with larger file sizes. I hope it comes soon.