paulears
Veteran
Not really a section for this - so this seems most sensible.
For years I have used Vimeo for a place to share client previews, versions of edits and private material that would not be acceptable on a platform like Youtube. So as I do lots of theatre work, the show recordings, where I can share videos with understudies who use them to see what they never see while doing their main role. It has gradually increased in price and last year I think I paid around £240 - it's not even huge amounts of storage, but it's reliable and watchable in venues that do not have youtube available on their networks. Today they told me of a price increase - they want nearly £800 a year for my plan, with a massive (or not) 4Tb of video. I think I am at about 3 and a bit Tb at the moment. That's totally mad pricing, so I am downloading everything - even worse, to download at the quality you uploaded, they want even more money. I'm OK with the compressed HD quality, so that isn't going to worry me, but this stinks. One of my web sites has an extended storage capacity option that is very modest - and my total downloads of any of the videos rarely exceeds a handful a month. Some are over 12 years old and have been watched 10 times! As none are set to public, I can upload them to my webspace, with the URL sent to the client. It's more clunky for me to do, but ftp will do the job. I have no idea how Vimeo think they can get away with £800 a year. Has anyone else who uses them had the price hike?
For years I have used Vimeo for a place to share client previews, versions of edits and private material that would not be acceptable on a platform like Youtube. So as I do lots of theatre work, the show recordings, where I can share videos with understudies who use them to see what they never see while doing their main role. It has gradually increased in price and last year I think I paid around £240 - it's not even huge amounts of storage, but it's reliable and watchable in venues that do not have youtube available on their networks. Today they told me of a price increase - they want nearly £800 a year for my plan, with a massive (or not) 4Tb of video. I think I am at about 3 and a bit Tb at the moment. That's totally mad pricing, so I am downloading everything - even worse, to download at the quality you uploaded, they want even more money. I'm OK with the compressed HD quality, so that isn't going to worry me, but this stinks. One of my web sites has an extended storage capacity option that is very modest - and my total downloads of any of the videos rarely exceeds a handful a month. Some are over 12 years old and have been watched 10 times! As none are set to public, I can upload them to my webspace, with the URL sent to the client. It's more clunky for me to do, but ftp will do the job. I have no idea how Vimeo think they can get away with £800 a year. Has anyone else who uses them had the price hike?
