Is youtube good for presenting?

[cheaterpumpkineater]

I was wondering about youtube does anyone think that they are a good place to present? I was wondering about this because I dab in everything and I LOVE recording vids. I have uploaded a couple and the only thing that I didn't like was tha it took forever so what do you think?

[jklewer]

I would DEFINITELY recommend vimeo.com over youtube.

[c2thew]

vimeo for higher quality resolution. youtube for props and publicity.

[Stutterbug]

vimeo all the way! you tube has many restrictions, 1g, 10mins max, can't use copy righted music even if it's just a home movie. Being a video editor by trade vimeo wins all the way. They also have a progress bar that says how much longer till you video is uploaded (if you have ever tried to upload a gig to youtube you know the constant scare of never being sure if you froze up or not. The free version of vimeo allows you to upload 2gs a month. think the pro version runs around $70 and is unlimited. Hope this helps.

Here's a link to a video I have on there so you can see the interface (also a shameless plug for my editing demo reel :)
http://www.vimeo.com/4995851

[Matthew Craggs]

I would also suggest embedding the video on your own website. You can get Flash players for free and encoding to a flv file is a piece of cake. Add a couple of lines of code and you're set. That way you don't have any YouTube/Vimeo/ExposureRoom/Revver/etc. branding.

If you don't have your own website or webspace, however, I recommend Vimeo like the other posters above me.

[The Moose]

The only good thing that YouTube has going for it is the larger base for people you haven't specifically advertised to. Of course, they now have the HD option but vimeo is much better in general.

[SaNTi iTNaS]

What do you mean by presenting?

If you mean quality, I think youtube's quality has definitely improved. It takes a while to upload, and then some more to process, but the HD videos look great.

[cheaterpumpkineater]

Thanks I'm definetly gonna check out vimeo!

[Canon4Ever]

i can't upload a video on Vimeo.com i can't upload a MVI Format file Video, how do i go about this what should i do to my Video File? the video file i recorded on my camera works great, but i can't upload it to anything yet? what should i do? how do i change my format or something?

[Stutterbug]

I use mac, I use mpeg streamclip, free download from the apple website

[Stutterbug]

if you dont have a mac try finding handbrake

[cwr89]

I think youtube has made some improvements in the last few months like upping to limit on uploads from 100mb to 1gb. I use youtube for things that I know will be bogging down my website as well as for things that I want to get decent publicity (which I feel like you have to pay for).
my biggest complaint with youtube is the blatant re-compressing and completely destroying my image quality. I upload everything in the On2 Flash codec. already compressed! and they still recompress it even though they use the On2 codec. its frustrating.

youtube has its ups and downs. I know alot of people that like vimeo.

~Casey

[B.E]

I personnaly love very much vimeo. Great quality and Easy to use.

[Javiert92]

What do you mean by presenting?

If you mean quality, I think youtube's quality has definitely improved. It takes a while to upload, and then some more to process, but the HD videos look great.
I started using Vimeo since a while and I think they were probably the first ones to put HD video BUT since youtube recently enabled it I have seen some differences between both and realized that now youtube's HD is much better than Vimeo's. Of course Vimeo is less commercial and focused to more professional videos (most of the time).

For you to see what i'm saying, take a look at this timelapse video of mine, uploaded on both sites.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ak-5nTkn4k
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/705518

If you want to see other samples I think I have another video uploaded on both accounts: one of a rubiks cube.

[Dooms_day]

the HD support on youtube has served me okay, but the framerate and choppiness from how they compress it has not, i voted OK, because cinephiles like myself wouldnt be happy in the slightest,

although in your video description just link over to the vimeo!

[Canon4Ever]

I use mac, I use mpeg streamclip, free download from the apple website

where can i go to get that download, i never see it on apple.com? i have a 24inch iMac Computer

[Canon4Ever]

I think youtube has made some improvements in the last few months like upping to limit on uploads from 100mb to 1gb. I use youtube for things that I know will be bogging down my website as well as for things that I want to get decent publicity (which I feel like you have to pay for).
my biggest complaint with youtube is the blatant re-compressing and completely destroying my image quality. I upload everything in the On2 Flash codec. already compressed! and they still recompress it even though they use the On2 codec. its frustrating.

youtube has its ups and downs. I know alot of people that like vimeo.

~Casey

Youtube.com Sucks, i'm not Uploading nothing on that Site, they only Allow up to 10 Minutes of Video, what the Hell do you call that? they need to be able to have people make @ least 2 or 4 hours of Video, or i'm not Considering that a great Upload site :confused:

[Fahad79]

I would also suggest embedding the video on your own website. You can get Flash players for free and encoding to a flv file is a piece of cake. Add a couple of lines of code and you're set. That way you don't have any YouTube/Vimeo/ExposureRoom/Revver/etc. branding.

If you don't have your own website or webspace, however, I recommend Vimeo like the other posters above me.

indeed the most sensible solution

[JPM Photography]

I read in a tutorial somewhere (I think it was a rebenowitz one over on creative cow) that if you upload to youtube in an .flv file that they don't re-compress it.
If this is true, it would certianly make that sight somewhat more managable.

[Trey T]

I prefer Exposureroom over all of other websites. it looks more professional, imo.

[rahn]

Another vote for Vimeo.

I don't like to deal with compressing and embedding and uploading to my own site but as an alternative solution Vimeo Plus lets you take out the Vimeo branding with custom options.

What disturbs me most about YouTube isn't their uploading limits, video compression or copyright limits but a lot of hate speech and ignorance that is posted as comments. I guess this sentiment depends on your political affiliation... but I have never seen such a thing happen or be tolerated on Vimeo.