Vimeo versus Youtube
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 27/10/2013

Extended demonstration of Vimeo features, pros and cons versus Youtube.  Vimeo offers three types of accounts:  Free, Plus, Pro.  I opted for the Pro.

Free has most of the features of Pro, except:  1) uploads are limited to 1 HD (1080p) video per week, and the total bytes uploaded that week can't exceed 500MB.  2) It also has banner ads, plus some limitations on customization.  3) The uploads are about as slow as Youtube, maybe slower (a 7 min video took maybe 20 mins to upload).

Plus costs $60 per year;  it has no ads, and the max byte per week is 5 GB, any or all of which can be HD.  Upload speed is much faster, and you get faster service, too (4-hour turn around answer on emails).

Pro costs $200/year, has no byte limits, and the upload is almost instantaneous.  Seems to me 5x faster than Youtube, which I appreciate;  1-hour service turnaround.  It also offers some other bells and whistles, like the ability to create multiple playlists;  its embedding features are fullscale (versus Plus, which is more than adequate, and Basic which is barely adequate).

You get only limited customization of the site at Vimeo, which is a drawback.  Still, it's better than Youtube, and whether Free or Pro, you get the same 'theme' choices.

Enfin, Vimeo's chief advantages are HD quality and streaming, upload speed (if Pro), and for any level of account, no or few trolls.  Think of Youtube like going to Disneyland in summer; but Vimeo, like going to The Hamptons.  Higher-class video.  Fewer views, better class of folks.

Sometimes smaller is better.  But we'll see.  I'll give it a year.  Will be posting copies of my 'How God Orchestrates Time' exegesis videos, there.  So for those of you who wanted me to provide a more orderly presentation of the doctrine, go to http://vimeo.com/channels/HowGodOrchestratesTime .  My actual brainout page is http://www.vimeo.com/brainout .  It will take me several weeks to copy ALL the How God Orchestrates Time vids, but 14 of them are up, now.