YouTube vs. Vimeo

[CT-Rich]

I just posted my first video to Vimeo.com and the effect was "wow." I have been using YouTube for my videos because it is so ubiquitous and the most browsed platform for online video. The ease of use and wide exposure are pretty awesome, but the massive compression has made some segments that had a lot going on visually very chunky. I am going to start using both platforms now, Vimeo for posting on forum and Youtube because it is more likely to be found by interested parties. A down side to Vimeo that I have also noticed is that on the free accounts there is a 500 mb/week limit. It is going to take a long time to load all my older videos up if I can only post one a week.


Below are the same videos that I posted to the two different sites.
Vimeo:
[video=vimeo;108264475]http://vimeo.com/108264475[/video]

YouTube:

[video=youtube_share;ojhQyvU8QWE]http://youtu.be/ojhQyvU8QWE[/video]

---------- Post added October 13th, 2014 at 07:51 AM ----------

looking at them side by side, the colors are much more vivid on the Vimeo site. Both videos were supposedly optimized for the respective site by the GoPro studio software.

 

[CT Sean]

The Vimeo version is definitely cleaner. Nice video too and that shell is a cool find - who got to keep it?

 

[alewar]

There are other advantages too. One of them is that vimeo doesn't censor videos as much as YouTube does. Here in Germany half YouTube is blocked because some copyrighted music appeared somewhere. Another issue for me is that Google already correlates too much information about people, so I prefer to use alternatives.

 

[CT-Rich]

The Vimeo version is definitely cleaner. Nice video too and that shell is a cool find - who got to keep it?

Mike kept this one I have found others before.

 

[danvolker]

I just posted my first video to Vimeo.com and the effect was "wow." I have been using YouTube for my videos because it is so ubiquitous and the most browsed platform for online video. The ease of use and wide exposure are pretty awesome, but the massive compression has made some segments that had a lot going on visually very chunky. I am going to start using both platforms now, Vimeo for posting on forum and Youtube because it is more likely to be found by interested parties. A down side to Vimeo that I have also noticed is that on the free accounts there is a 500 mb/week limit. It is going to take a long time to load all my older videos up if I can only post one a week.


Below are the same videos that I posted to the two different sites.
Vimeo:
[video=vimeo;108264475]http://vimeo.com/108264475[/video]

YouTube:

[video=youtube_share;ojhQyvU8QWE]http://youtu.be/ojhQyvU8QWE[/video]

---------- Post added October 13th, 2014 at 07:51 AM ----------

looking at them side by side, the colors are much more vivid on the Vimeo site. Both videos were supposedly optimized for the respective site by the GoPro studio software.

Not a far comparison, as your Youtube choice used the pretenda-HD of 720, instead of full 1080p....

Also the banding is probably from the nasty h264 codec all dslr's that I know of, shoot with, representing too small a color space to white balance and color correct in, without artifacts like that.



Here is an AMBIENT LIGHT video....I shot this with NO video lights.....depth was 100 to 115 feet deep, so it was quite dark....and I had to PUSH the color correcting an amount that would seem impossible....but with the 4-4-4 color space of a cineform avi or mov, you get huge latitude in what it can hold with your corrections.....Then when you save it to youtube, with 50 meg per second target data rate, and High level 5.1, you get the h264 codec looking a lot like your cineform avi with the 4-4-4 colorspace....
Yes, I have some banding, but if you saw how much I corrected, it would blow your mind
[video=youtube_share;0sTblBq1Ok4]http://youtu.be/0sTblBq1Ok4?list=UUsM5Za9Kc3DbP7Qo3-Zmz9w[/video]


Obviously...watch ONLY at 1080p the little gear icon at bottom right

 

[dfx]

The limitations on Vimeo is why I don't use it and I'm not willing to pay for a premium account.

 

[CT-Rich]

I was just discovering that Vimeo had a 500mb limit per week for the free account. When I was exporting the video from the GoPro editor, I was selecting the "optimize for" options. I am just starting out making videos. That looked like an awesome dive.

 

[drbill]

I've always used YouTube but submit my videos in a low resolution MP4 format. I want viewers to get an idea of what my videos are like, but I want to sell them the full resolution version.