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SYS
15th of November 2008 (Sat), 13:49
Anyone using SmugMug to upload your HD video? What's your experience like? Pros and cons?
keith204
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 18:22
I am interested in this too - but will find out regardless. They do have some crazy fast servers - from certain places, I can upload a several gigs of photos in half an hour. Laforet's video was up on Smugmug for awhile...
SYS
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 21:32
In my initial video uploading experience with SmugMug, I found that the speed was really slow such that I often started the uploading before going to sleep and checking it back the next morning. Also, I found that during playback, it often pauses in split seconds here and there. The same uploaded video then plays flawlessly when I play it at some other time. I'm hoping to see my video experience improve with time.
randomlinh
18th of November 2008 (Tue), 23:14
I uploaded a movie directly from iMovie 08 output (web options I think, highest quality). Smugmug handled all the conversion for the different sizes. Streaming was perfect presuming your connection was good.

Uploading was fine for me. At home, my upload speeds are anywhere from 30-70KB/s. That's just painful no matter what. At work, I was doing 6-7x better.
Ham1
21st of November 2008 (Fri), 00:04
I am interested in this too - but will find out regardless. They do have some crazy fast servers - from certain places, I can upload a several gigs of photos in half an hour. Laforet's video was up on Smugmug for awhile...


It is up, check it out! http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/gallery/6042742_wZKiA#377930419_dgxvY
Tom O
22nd of November 2008 (Sat), 09:44
It is up, check it out! http://vincentlaforet.smugmug.com/ga...77930419_dgxvY

Ham..that was amazing, thanks for posting. I am just about ready to upgrade my video but now having to think about doing a double upgrade in one with the 50D.:confused:
timescapes.org
27th of November 2008 (Thu), 22:54
doesn't work with Google Chrome.. hehe.. I'm probably the only guys still using chrome.
randomlinh
27th of November 2008 (Thu), 23:33
doesn't work with Google Chrome.. hehe.. I'm probably the only guys still using chrome.
that's odd.. why did it load the quicktime plugin for me, maybe that's why it's not working w/ chrome? I was under the impression they ditched that for flash completely. My videos were like that.
timescapes.org
27th of November 2008 (Thu), 23:40
it plays for me in IE or firefox, but not chrome.

chrome has serious issues with flash and really any type of video.
flashram
30th of November 2008 (Sun), 23:32
All the video I've seen on Smugmug has been great.