IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 |
(MUSIC).
Welcome to Vimeo Essential Training, I'm
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Jason Osder.
Whether you are a creator or a connoisseur
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of high quality video, Vimeo has a lot to
offer.
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We'll find and watch exciting high
definition videos on Vimeo and join the
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online community.
I'll show you how to prepare content for
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Vimeo, with any eye toward preserving the
true quality of your shooting and editing.
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We'll take a look at Vimeo Plus.
A paid upgrade that adds a more
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professional feature set.
I'm excited to share with you all of the advantages.
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Now, let's jump into Vimeo Essential
Training.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 |
If you're a premium member of lynda.com
you have access to the exercise files used
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throughout this title.
As you can see, I've already downloaded my
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exercise files and saved them to the
desktop.
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If you open this folder, you'll see that
the exercise files are organized by chapter.
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And there's really not very many of them
for this course.
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The reason is that most of this course
takes place online, and it's a good idea
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to use your own video.
If you are not a premium subscriber to
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lynda.com, you don't have access to the
exercise files.
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But you can absolutely follow along from
scratch with your own assets.
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Okay, let's get started.
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1. Introducing VimeoWhat is Vimeo?| 00:00 |
What is Vimeo?
I bet you have some idea or you wouldn't
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have clicked on this course to begin with,
but I like to start all my courses with
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clear definitions.
So let's look at Vimeo in context.
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First, Vimeo is an online video platform.
It's a web application that facilitates
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posting video online, and has a focus on
quality.
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It was one of the earliest platforms to
support high definition, and that's one
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way that it really defined itself.
While it's quite possible to post videos
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online without the benefit of a platform
like Vimeo, what Vimeo has done is done a
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lot of testing to create a platform that's
going to be accessible to most users and
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preserve quality.
Second, Vimeo is a vibrant online community.
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The people that frequent it are often
filmmakers and artists.
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And there's a real emphasis on DIY culture
and creative output.
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Finally, Vimeo Plus and Vimeo Pro are both
paid services that unlock more
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professional features.
We'll be looking at those in detail later.
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Okay, that's good for starters and
definitions.
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Now let's get going with what we can do on
Vimeo.
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| Being aware of privacy, copyright, and ethical issues on Vimeo| 00:00 |
What videos are acceptable to post on
Vimeo?
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Do you need to own them, control them and
have the rights to post them?
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These are all really good questions and
they open up a bit of a can of worms about
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our new internet culture.
Let's see if we can define some grounding rules.
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First, like all of the internet, assume
that anything you put on Vimeo will be
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seen by the whole world.
Now, you can change those settings and we
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can learn how, but for starters just
assume that when you post something on the
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internet anyone can see it.
This first idea leads to some common sense
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rules about what you would decide to
share.
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You should share things that you own and
control, and you shouldn't share anything
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that seems inappropriate.
Just think, if you wouldn't want your
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mother to see it, or you wouldn't want
your child to see it, think twice before
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posting it on Vimeo.
There's a lot of information on the vimeo
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site itself about what's acceptable and
what the rules are.
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If you have any questions, I recommend
that you peruse the site for these rules.
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Finally, Vimeo is a community of creative
professionals.
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They do monitor the site, and they have a
low tolerance for things that fall outside
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of the realm of acceptability.
This is not a site where you're likely to
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see full songs or albums or television
shows posted without permission.
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That just does not fly on Vimeo.
So these are some grounding rules, but the
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bottom line is to assume everyone's
going to see it, use good common sense,
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and if you have questions, read the site
for answers.
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| Understanding Creative Commons licensing on Vimeo| 00:00 |
I'd like to take a moment to talk about
Creative Commons licensing.
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You'll see this in a lot of places around
the Vimeo site.
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And I wanted to go ahead and just define
it before we move forward.
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I want to go up under create and then hit
the link for Creative Commons.
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As you can see, the purpose of this
particular link is for a user to find
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licensed videos on Vimeo.
As you can see, the purpose of this page
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is to browse videos that have a Creative
Commons license.
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But why would you want to do that?
And on the other hand, if you're a creator
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of videos, why would you want to give your
video a Creative Commons license?
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Well, let's look in detail about what
Creative Commons is.
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There's a lot of good information down the
right side here, and also a link to the
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Creative Commons website, which has even
more information.
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But let me break it down for you.
The idea of Creative Commons licensing, is
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a licensing system that really embraces
what's exciting about the internet and
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gets passed some of the complex
intellectual property issues that have
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hamstrung certain activities on the
internet.
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All of this is very appropriate to Vimeo,
which is a community of artists and film
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makers that value sharing, but also value
ownership and credit.
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So that's the basis of the whole thing.
Is that the Creative Commons licensing
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systems allows you to designate in what
specific ways you're willing to have your
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work shared.
Or from the perspective of someone who
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wants to use that work.
You can see very clearly what the maker intended.
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So, as an overview and I encourage you to
read this in detail.
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Attribution means go ahead and use it, but
give me credit.
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Share alike means use it but only in ways
that you also allow the same usage.
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In other words, share alike.
Share my stuff but only in like ways.
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Non-commercial is share it but don't make
money on it.
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And no derivative works is share it
complete but don't carve it up and remix it.
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I think you get the idea as well as the
power of this.
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Going from a black and white copyright or
not.
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To a much more flexible system that allows
you to really communicate with your
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audience about what you intended for your
work.
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I think you'll agree that something about
Creative Commons licensing.
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It's very appropriate to the spirit of
Vimeo.
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I'm sure that's why they make it so
clearly available when you post your video.
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| Using the Vimeo help features| 00:00 |
There's a lot of help available right on
the Vimeo site.
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Before we go any further, I want to direct
you on how to find it.
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You can see that I'm on the Vimeo homepage
here, and I'm not logged in.
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So, I'm being invited to create an
account.
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We'll do that in a bit.
But I want to scroll all the way to the
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bottom to see the Help Center link.
There it is Help Center.
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As you can see, this is a full fledged
help center with many options.
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Let's do an overview, and then we'll drill
down and get some help.
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First, we have a very effective search
bar.
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We'll use that in a second.
Second, we have FAQs and guidelines.
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This is both Frequently Asked Questions
and also community guidelines that will
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help you if you have any questions about
what is appropriate to post.
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Next, you have the help forums.
This is where users share help.
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You have guidelines for your actual
content.
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And then you have an invitation to go
ahead and contact Vimeo.
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I have to say the staff at Vimeo is
extremely helpful.
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You can see here direct links to the whole
support team, and then on the right, are
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tutorial videos, which tend to have a more
simplified approach, but if you like video
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learning they can be great shortcuts.
Now that we've seen an overview, let's see
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what an actual help section looks like.
We're going to deal with a lot of
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technical things, so if I start to type
compression here, you'll see that I get a
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lot of help categories that take me in
that direction.
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Some are more basic.
Some are instructional.
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Let's do something like, can you recommend
some encoding settings for HD?
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That's something we're going to deal a lot
with later.
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Let's see what help has to offer.
Here we have some basic recommendations
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for HD settings.
Don't worry, we're going to go over all
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these details later.
My point now is just the way you find
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additional information on the Vimeo site.
So here we have an overview, and an
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additional link that'll take us to
detailed compression settings.
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Again, this is one of my very favorite
pages on Vimeo and we're going to spend
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some more time here.
We've got details here on our compression
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settings and we also have additional video
tutorials for specific pieces of software.
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I think you can tell that the Vimeo help
center is pretty sophisticated and pretty
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darn helpful.
I recommend that if you run into trouble,
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one of your first tries is the Vimeo help
section.
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2. Finding and Watching VideosWatching videos| 00:00 |
>> Watching videos online is at the heart
of the Vimeo experience.
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It's pretty straight forward but I want to
go over it in detail with you.
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As you can see, I'm on a Vimeo video page.
You can reach a page like this by clicking
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absolutely any of the video thumbnails as
you see them displayed up top.
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Also, I'm not currently logged in, so most
of what I'm going to show you will work
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not logged in, and we'll start to see some
of the limitations, and why you might
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want to make an account.
Let's scroll down so we can really focus
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on the video.
You'll see that in the top right I have
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some choices to share, watch later, and
like.
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If you click these, you'll see that share
is available, a link, send email, or some
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embed code.
We'll look at all of these in a bit.
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We also have some social media choices,
and we'll spend some time with that as well.
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But you can do at least email sharing, and
a link, and embedding without being logged in.
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The other two, save for later and like, if
you click them, you'll get a message
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saying you need to log in order to like
something or save for later.
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That makes sense because these things need
to be save to your account.
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So we can't really do that until we log in
or join.
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For actually playing the video, we have a
play/pause video in the bottom.
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And as you can see if you look quickly, we
have a scrubber bar that indicates our
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progress through the clip, and also our
load time.
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I don't know if you saw it, but this gray
bar filled up as the video was loading,
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and before it finished loading, it was
sort of a slashed line.
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If I refresh the page, you'll be able to
see that again.
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Watch closely as I press play.
Did you see the video load?
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It was pretty quick because this is a
short video.
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So we have play and pause and we can also
drag this play head to advance to
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different parts of the video.
Finally we have a volume control here so
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that's mid volume, full volume, and we can
go to full screen mode.
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Escape to exit.
That's pretty much it for playing videos
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in Vimeo.
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| Browsing on Vimeo| 00:00 |
Now that we've watched a video on Vimeo I
want to spend a moment just exploring
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different ways to find videos tha tyou may
want to watch.
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As you can see, we're on the Vimeo
homepage and I'm not logged in.
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Everything I show you in this movie can be
done without a login and really can be
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done from anywhere on the site.
I want to start just by rolling over the
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Watch button on the main menu.
As you can see, rolling over gives me a
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number of interesting choices.
Most of them having to do with finding videos.
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We're going to talk about each of these,
eventually, but I want to start with categories.
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As you can see, categories are sort of a
top-level organizational feature baked
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right into the Vimeo interface.
We have things like Nature, Animation,
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Education, Films, and so on.
I'm going to click Films just to drill
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down deeper, but you can go anywhere you
like.
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Now, in the Films category, we have a
secondary set of categories based mostly
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on genre, although, Student Films and 8
and 16mm aren't really genres, but you get
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the idea.
We can drill deeper by going to
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documentary, and now, we see a large
selection of films that are in the
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Documentary genre.
I think you see how categories work.
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And whatever top-level category you
choose, there's always going to be several
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secondary categories to choose from and
drill down deeper.
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Let's roll over Watch again, because I
want to talk about Staff Picks, Channels,
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and Groups before we're done.
Staff Picks is exactly what it sounds
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like, a curated area by the Staff.
I really enjoy this, because it gives me a
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really personal feel that seems very
appropriate.
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That we're actually hearing from
individuals on the staff, not some
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monolithic corporation.
Channels is another way of grouping
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content and the thing to recognize about
is that some channels are created by
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Vimeo, but most channels are created by
users.
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So as you scroll down through the channels
you'll see that a lot of them are not from
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Vimeo, but in fact, created by an
individual user.
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There's lots of ways to browse these
including alphabetical by the videos
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themselves, this whole section is featured
and if you click on directory you'll be
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accessing all of the channels as you
browse.
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So, a staff picks her by the staff,
channels can be by Vimeo or users and then
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groups are really where a discussion is
going on.
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We'll look at creating our own groups.
But the thing to recognize is groups are
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simply groupings of videos that users
create and other users comment on and add to.
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So if we troll down into short films, we
see both group videos.
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These are the videos that belong in this
group.
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We see the creator who's just another
user, and in group activity, we see not
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just the videos But people joining the
group, discussing the videos, and adding
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videos of their own.
To review, categories are Vimeo's
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top-level categories that let you drill
down in a very controlled way.
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Staff Picks are a curated area by the
staff, Channels are groupings of videos
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that can be made by users or some of them
are also made by Vimeo, and Groups is a
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much more open area where users put
together curated groups of videos.
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Other users can add their own videos,
suggestions, comments, and et cetera.
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We're going to look at on demand and couch
mode in a different movie.
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So now, I think you're comfortable
exploring Vimeo in all kinds of ways to
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find the videos you want.
My recommendation is just to surf around
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and have fun.
Part of the beauty of Vimeo is finding
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things that are sort of unexpected.
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| Searching for videos| 00:00 |
Now that we've explored Vimeo a bit by
sort of just browsing, I want to look at
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the search features which can help you
find exactly the video that you're looking for.
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You can see that I'm on the Vimeo homepage
and I'm not logged in.
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But in fact, this will work from anywhere
on the site whether you're logged in or not.
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You just need to see the Search Bar, which
is always on the top right.
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As you start to type into the Search Bar
you'll see that you have a couple of choices.
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You can search all of Vimeo or do an
advanced search.
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After you've completed some searches
you'll see this list start to populate
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with recent searches as well.
So if you've been searching already, you
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may see something slightly different here,
but don't be concerned.
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I'm going to start by searching all of
Vimeo, and then we'll also look at advance
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search which we can also reach after we've
done our initial search.
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So here we have a lot of videos that have
Lake Tahoe somewhere in their meta data or information.
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I'm sort of getting pumped up for a ski
trip.
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As you can see there are almost three
thousand videos with this search term.
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We can also apply this search term to
people, channels, groups or forums.
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So these are actually Channels that have
Lake Tahoe in them and you can see there's
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many fewer, only 21.
Let's look back at Videos and we'll start
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to drill down deeper.
So we can sort these videos in all of
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these different ways; the date,
alphabetical, et cetera, even something
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like duration to get the shortest to
longest or vice versa.
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Let's see how it looks under Date
organization.
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So there you have it.
The most recent one was only ten hours ago.
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This is what's called a thumbnail view but
you can also have a list view with details.
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I sort of prefer that one, it's easy to
scroll down and you can read the descriptions.
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Finally, I want to go ahead and look at
the advanced filters.
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This is similar to what you'll see if you
initially do an advanced search.
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Here you see that you can search all
videos, your own videos, or your contacts.
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Of course, these two will only really be
available once you have an account.
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You can match the different meta data
fields.
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So if I only want Lake Tahoe in the title,
I will remove a lot of items from my search.
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I can limit the search by time, so if I
only want the last year I can limit by the
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statistics and this is basically a way of
limiting for popularity.
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I can also decide only to search for SD or
HD videos based on resolution.
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And finally you can also narrow your
search based on the license that's
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available on Vimeo.
Not all videos are designated this way on Vimeo.
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But you are able to designate for your
video, whether someone can share it with
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attribution, or various other definitions
that are based on the creative commons
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licensing schema.
We'll talk about that more later, this is
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just about searching.
Finally, you can only search for videos
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that are downloadable.
That's videos that allow you to download
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the source file.
So, for instance, if you're basically
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searching for stock video that you're
allowed to use, you could choose the
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licensing level and you could choose that
it's downloadable so you'll actually be
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able to get that video.
In this case now that we've narrowed down
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to 237 videos that have Lake Tahoe in the
title or posted in the last year and are
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HD, I think you can see that searching,
especially the advanced search, is a very
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powerful way of finding exactly what you
want.
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3. Joining the Vimeo CommunityCreating an account| 00:00 |
Now that we've watched some videos,
explored the site, and searched for
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specific videos, to go much further on
Vimeo, we need to create an account.
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There's two basic reasons for this.
One is to interact more thoroughly with
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the community, things like comments,
friends, and likes.
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And the other is to start uploading our
own videos.
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As you can see when we're not logged in
Vimeo is really promoting making an
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account with a big promotion at the top of
the page.
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If for any reason you don't see this just
click join and you're going to come to a
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very similar place.
You will need an email account to join
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Vimeo, but that's about all you need, of
course I'm creating my password here for
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the first time.
Here you can see that we have a major
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choice and we'll talk about this more
later.
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We have a basic subscription which is
free.
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We have Vimeo Plus, which is an upgrade.
And then we have Vimeo PRO, which is a
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professional upgrade.
We're going to talk about these in detail
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so I just want to continue with Basic for
now, knowing that we can upgrade later.
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And we do plan to do that.
As you can see we've successfully created
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an account and our home screen has now
become a Welcome page.
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It will now populate with our activities
on the feed below.
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There's one more important step, and it's
verifying through an email verification.
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We should have received an email and it's
important to check you email and click
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that verify link.
We can do a lot of activities with our
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account, but some will be blocked, until
we verify.
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For instance, if we try to upload a video,
we get a message that our email is not verified.
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Similarly, if I want to make a comment on
a video, I can scroll down and read the comments.
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But if I want to actually leave my own
comment again I need to verify in my email.
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Of course w'ell talk a lot more about
leaving comments and uploading videos.
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But for now, my point is that those things
are locked out even though you've created
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the account and can do some things.
Until you verify through email you'll be
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blocked out of comments and uploading.
I'm going to pop over to my email so I can
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do this verification.
There, you see my Welcome to Vimeo email.
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If I click on it, you'll see that I have a
prominent link to complete my registration.
| | 02:29 |
I'm going to go ahead and click that, and
what you see is a confirmation that I have
| | 02:33 |
verified through email.
Again, I'm being offered the option of
| | 02:38 |
Plus or Pro.
We'll talk about that later.
| | 02:42 |
But more importantly, if I go back to my
homepage and now I go to some of these
| | 02:46 |
other choices like Upload a Video.
Now I actually see the interface to upload
| | 02:52 |
which will work with a little bit later.
Same thing with comments, let me show you.
| | 03:00 |
Now if I go to that same place having
verified, I have an area to actually leave
| | 03:06 |
a comment.
Now that we have a working account in
| | 03:10 |
Vimeo, we can continue to open up more
doors and see more features.
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| Building a Vimeo profile| 00:00 |
Now that we've created our account on
Vimeo, I want to fill out what's called
| | 00:04 |
our profile.
This is where we add basic information
| | 00:07 |
about who we are to share with the
community.
| | 00:11 |
As you can see, I just completed the new
account process.
| | 00:14 |
I'm on the welcome page.
But you can do this from anywhere on the
| | 00:17 |
site so long as you're logged in with your
new account.
| | 00:21 |
Roll over the Me menu and then go to My
Profile.
| | 00:25 |
As you can see, this is a completely blank
profile.
| | 00:28 |
I have no videos, no likes, nothing at
all.
| | 00:30 |
Once we start to interact with the
community and add videos, all of this will populate.
| | 00:36 |
But for now, I just want to put up our
basic information in our profile.
| | 00:41 |
So click on Settings here.
If you've joined other social networks
| | 00:46 |
before, this will seem familiar.
Let's start by uploading a portrait photo.
| | 00:52 |
I saved a photo that I want to use to the
Desktop.
| | 00:54 |
I didn't make it available in the exercise
files because obviously you're going to
| | 00:57 |
want to use your own picture for your
profile.
| | 01:02 |
We see our photo come up but not
completely yet.
| | 01:05 |
I found that it takes a few seconds to
update.
| | 01:08 |
So I'm going to fill in some other
information, and we'll come back to finish
| | 01:11 |
up with the photograph.
It might take a refresh, but I'm just
| | 01:14 |
going to give it a second to see if it
loads on its own.
| | 01:18 |
For bio, I would probably write a longer
bio in a word processor and paste it in.
| | 01:23 |
But for now, I think I'll just type in
something short.
| | 01:28 |
Obviously location is a pretty open ended
thing on this network.
| | 01:32 |
This here is interesting, your Vimeo URL.
You've been given a default URL based on
| | 01:36 |
your user number, but you can actually
customize this, and I recommend that you do.
| | 01:46 |
You can see that vimeo.com/jasonatlynda is
available.
| | 01:50 |
And that makes a much better URL link for
my homepage on Vimeo.
| | 01:55 |
You can add gender if you want and you can
also add your own personal webpages which
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will appear as a link on your profile.
We don't have any featured videos yet
| | 02:04 |
because we haven't uploaded any, but we
have filled out the basics.
| | 02:07 |
Let's check on that photograph.
I'm going to save the changes and see if
| | 02:12 |
that doesn't update our photo.
Great, now I actually see our photo, and
| | 02:19 |
we can finish that work.
Notice that you have some choices here.
| | 02:22 |
The x for delete, the pen for edit.
I'm not going to use any of these effects,
| | 02:29 |
but I wanted to show you that they're
available.
| | 02:32 |
going to cancel that.
And then most importantly, if you want
| | 02:36 |
this appear as your profile photo, you
have to click the photo itself to set it
| | 02:39 |
as your default profile.
See how it's highlighted now?
| | 02:45 |
Go ahead and save that one more time.
Now that I've saved all these changes, I
| | 02:49 |
want to look at how this looks to the
public, and I'm going to click my user
| | 02:52 |
name up here on the right.
Of course I still don't have any
| | 02:56 |
information in terms of my interactions.
But I do have my profile photo, and the
| | 03:01 |
rudimentary information that I've added.
So that's how to set up your profile.
| | 03:07 |
Now we can move forward into other aspects
of your new account.
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| Exploring account options| 00:00 |
Now that we've created an account and
updated our profile, I want to show you
| | 00:04 |
some additional options available in your
account.
| | 00:08 |
As you can see, we're on our public
account page and I want to go to settings.
| | 00:13 |
Let's go through all of the additional
tabs besides profile that are available in settings.
| | 00:20 |
Account is basically your internal
overview.
| | 00:24 |
There's no additional information here,
but there are some important things.
| | 00:28 |
Upgrade is here, but it's also in a lot of
other places and importantly password
| | 00:33 |
update is here.
That's really all you need to know about
| | 00:38 |
the account overview.
In videos, you have a lot of choices that
| | 00:42 |
are defaults for your account.
Each one of these can be custom set for a video.
| | 00:48 |
But this is how your videos, when you
first post them, will appear.
| | 00:52 |
That includes your privacy settings,
whether it can be embedded, who can
| | 00:57 |
comment, if people can download and your
creative commons license level.
| | 01:04 |
Creative commons is a quasi licensing
system that lets creators of content
| | 01:09 |
designate their willingness to have that
content shared with others.
| | 01:15 |
This is interesting and you may see it in
other places on the site.
| | 01:19 |
These are different levels of attribution.
So if you choose attribution, you're
| | 01:23 |
telling the community go ahead use my
stuff, just give me credit.
| | 01:28 |
And as you go down, there are different
categories.
| | 01:31 |
So attribution, non-commercial would be
use my stuff but not to make money.
| | 01:36 |
If you want full definitions of all of the
creative commons categories, click learn more.
| | 01:43 |
I think this creative commons licensing
system is very appropriate to Vimeo, and
| | 01:46 |
the the community, that includes many
creative professionals, that both care
| | 01:50 |
about where their content is going to
appear, but also, are often open to
| | 01:53 |
sharing it, and sharing with other people.
Let's continue to explore the other things
| | 02:01 |
available in my settings.
Advanced has just a number of options
| | 02:08 |
about the activities on Vimeo.
We can decide when to be notified by
| | 02:12 |
email, and these are all of our choices.
These are activities that we do, as well
| | 02:17 |
as activities that other members of the
community might do with our videos.
| | 02:22 |
We can get various updates and
newsletters.
| | 02:26 |
We can set global site preferences.
Site preferences would include what player
| | 02:31 |
we use by default.
That's HTML5 versus Flash.
| | 02:35 |
Whether by default we see our videos in
HD.
| | 02:38 |
Whether we share our recent activities and
also our statistics on our page.
| | 02:45 |
Finally, we can block members.
I'm not going to make any changes on this
| | 02:49 |
page at the moment.
The next category is apps.
| | 02:54 |
As you can see, these are applications
that run right on Vimeo and integrate in
| | 02:58 |
one way or another with a social network
or another piece of software.
| | 03:03 |
So we have Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and
etc.
| | 03:09 |
This all comes under the rubric of
integrating with social networks, which we
| | 03:12 |
will cover.
Finally there is upgrade.
| | 03:15 |
But I'm going to go ahead and talk about
Vimeo Plus and Vimeo Pro in a separate movie.
| | 03:21 |
So there you have a lot of options
available for your account.
| | 03:25 |
For the most part these are site wide
defaults that you can set once here but
| | 03:30 |
also tweak for individual videos.
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| Understanding Vimeo Plus and PRO accounts| 00:00 |
Vimeo Plus and Vimeo Pro are paid upgrades
that open up more features on Vimeo.
| | 00:09 |
We're not going to upgrade right now, but
I want to give you an overview of what's
| | 00:12 |
available in these paid upgrades.
I'm here on the Vimeo home page and I'm
| | 00:18 |
logged in.
This is usually what you'll see when you
| | 00:21 |
log in on Vimeo, and one of the things
you'll notice is several options to upgrade.
| | 00:25 |
Here I've got an invitation for Vimeo Pro,
here I've got an upgrade button in the
| | 00:29 |
main menu, but I actually want to go
through my account settings where I can
| | 00:33 |
get more detail.
So start on the Me Menu, and My Profile,
| | 00:39 |
and then click Settings.
I want to look at upgrades here, in my
| | 00:44 |
profile settings to see more detail.
Here we have a comparison of a basic
| | 00:50 |
account that we have now and is free, and
a Vimeo plus account, which it tells me
| | 00:55 |
right here costs $9.95 a month, or an
anual subcription for $59.95.
| | 01:03 |
So what do we get for that money?
Well we increase our storage space from
| | 01:07 |
500 megabytes a week to 5 gigabytes a
week.
| | 01:11 |
Now you're going to need that if you
upload longer videos.
| | 01:16 |
I routinely upload full length feature
films and that file for good quality comes
| | 01:21 |
right close to the 5 gigabyte mark.
So if you're going to be doing longer
| | 01:26 |
videos, you might consider Vimeo plus.
500 megabytes a week will get you a lot of
| | 01:31 |
music videos and short PSA's or
commercials, so if you're doing shorter
| | 01:35 |
videos, that might be fine for you.
Let's look at some of these other options,
| | 01:42 |
but I do want to point out that the little
plus button will give you a more detailed
| | 01:45 |
explanation of each one of these.
Vimeo plus also eliminates banner ads, so
| | 01:50 |
if it's important to you not to have
advertising on your videos, you can pay
| | 01:55 |
for Vimeo Plus.
You move to the front of the line when you
| | 02:00 |
get Vimeo Plus, that's means less waiting
time for your videos to be processed.
| | 02:07 |
If you're in a production environment that
requires fast turnaround, and you're using
| | 02:11 |
Vimeo say to show collaborators or
approvers your work, you don't have time
| | 02:15 |
to wait, Vimeo Plus might be well worth
it.
| | 02:19 |
The basic account only allows one HD video
per week.
| | 02:24 |
But the plus account is unlimited.
So if you know you're going to use HD a
| | 02:28 |
lot, I'd recommend plus.
This one's interesting.
| | 02:31 |
With the basic accounts, your embedded
videos, that's videos that are embedded on
| | 02:36 |
other websites outside of vimeo, we
haven't done it yet but we're going to.
| | 02:43 |
With the basic account, they can only be
standard definition.
| | 02:46 |
But with Vimeo Plus, they can go up to
high definition.
| | 02:50 |
We'll also talk more specifically about
what the pixel resolutions are for
| | 02:55 |
standard and high-def.
This is all about the videos that we
| | 02:59 |
create and post, and how they can be
embedded.
| | 03:04 |
We can also embed other people's videos,
and whether they can be embedded at high
| | 03:08 |
definition depends on whether the owner of
the video has upgraded to Vimeo plus.
| | 03:14 |
We'll cover embedding videos later in the
course.
| | 03:18 |
Player customization deals with those
embedded videos and what the player
| | 03:22 |
actually looks like, and we get more
choices with Vimeo Plus.
| | 03:28 |
That means if you're going to use Vimeo as
part of your website, and you care about
| | 03:32 |
the design, the colors, and the look of
that player, Vimeo Plus might be the
| | 03:36 |
option for you.
Again, we'll deal with embedding videos a
| | 03:42 |
little later in the course.
The basic account limits your numbers for
| | 03:47 |
groups, channels, and albums, but Vimeo
Plus does not.
| | 03:52 |
We've already seen groups and channels,
and we'll look at albums a little bit later.
| | 03:56 |
You can see that we have more statistics
in Vimeo Plus, so if you're concerned
| | 04:00 |
about metrics, how many hits you get, how
many people are watching your videos,
| | 04:04 |
Vimeo Plus is going to offer you a lot
more in that area.
| | 04:10 |
All of your videos can be made private on
Vimeo, but only Vimeo Plus can let you
| | 04:15 |
make your entire account private.
If you want password protection for
| | 04:21 |
everything you do on Vimeo, then you might
want Plus.
| | 04:24 |
Vimeo plus also allows Vimeo to store your
original source files, just sort of like a
| | 04:30 |
backup for you.
And finally, enrolling in Vimeo plus gets
| | 04:35 |
you discounts on additional Vimeo
products.
| | 04:40 |
Now that we have an understanding of Vimeo
Plus, I also want to look at Vimeo Pro,
| | 04:44 |
which is the top tier available, and
designed for professionals.
| | 04:49 |
I'm going to click this small link right
here, just to see a similar overview.
| | 04:54 |
So, here's the Vimeo Pro promotional page.
You can see the Vimeo Pro is more
| | 04:59 |
expensive at $199 a year.
And if you scroll down, you see that we
| | 05:04 |
have a lot of similar categories, but
they're moved up even one more level with
| | 05:08 |
vimeo pro.
So now I'm all the way up to 50 gigabytes
| | 05:13 |
of storage.
If the comparison from 500 megabytes to 5
| | 05:18 |
gigabytes, then ten times more to 50
gigabytes.
| | 05:23 |
Roughly, we're talking about the
equivalent of ten features films when we
| | 05:27 |
talk about 50 gigabytes.
There are absolutely no caps on bandwidth
| | 05:31 |
or any time limits when you have a Pro
account.
| | 05:36 |
High definition moves all the way up to
1080p.
| | 05:38 |
That's the same resolution that you have
on high definition televisions.
| | 05:44 |
All of the other devices, such as mobile
devices, tablets, and web connected
| | 05:48 |
televisions, will be available to you if
you have Vimeo pro.
| | 05:54 |
There's even more advanced statistics.
You can start to monetize your videos only
| | 05:59 |
with Vimeo pro.
You can host portfolio sites, on Vimeo,
| | 06:03 |
and also have search engine optimization.
And as you can see, everything including
| | 06:11 |
HD uploading, prioritization,
customization, have all been moved up a notch.
| | 06:17 |
This isn't even the full list on Vimeo
Pro.
| | 06:20 |
There's a lot available, and if you want
to use Vimeo as a totally professional
| | 06:25 |
platform, if you're a media creator or a
marketer, and a lot of people are doing
| | 06:29 |
this, consider really investing in Vimeo
Pro to have maximum control.
| | 06:36 |
This is a good time to remind you that
Vimeo is a web app and prone to change.
| | 06:41 |
Many of the details here, specially when
we get to prices and storage space,
| | 06:45 |
they're bound to change over time.
So if you're watching this movie and
| | 06:51 |
making a decision, make sure to refer bck
to the current Vimeo website to exactly
| | 06:55 |
what's offered under Vimeo Plus and Vimeo
Pro currently.
| | 07:01 |
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| Liking and saving videos for later| 00:00 |
Now that we're familiar with our Vimeo
account, I want to start talking about
| | 00:03 |
some of the benefits and things you can do
with that account, starting with liking
| | 00:07 |
videos and saving videos for later.
As you can see, I'm on a video page, and I
| | 00:13 |
am logged in.
I'm going to scroll down so we can see the
| | 00:16 |
full video.
We've noticed before that there's a Like
| | 00:20 |
button and a Save for Later in the top
right of every video.
| | 00:23 |
But we were unable to utilize them before
we had our account.
| | 00:27 |
Now we can see how they really work.
When you click Like you've officially
| | 00:31 |
liked the video.
You can see that the hearts filled in, and
| | 00:35 |
in most ways this is consistent with
liking something on Facebook.
| | 00:40 |
When you Like something you do announce to
the world that you've liked it.
| | 00:44 |
When other people view this video, they'll
be able to see that you liked it and when
| | 00:48 |
people view your profile, they'll be able
to see your likes.
| | 00:52 |
Save for Later, on the other hand, is a
designation that is private.
| | 00:57 |
So if you see something that you want to
watch later and you click it, marking it
| | 01:00 |
Save for Later, the only person that will
be able to see that is the creator of the video.
| | 01:05 |
That Save for Later will not be public on
your profile and it will not be public
| | 01:09 |
when other people go to that video.
So that's all there is to it.
| | 01:14 |
Like is announcing to the rest of the
community that you like the video, Save
| | 01:18 |
for Later is simply a note to yourself
that will also be seen by the creator of
| | 01:21 |
the video, that you'll come back and watch
this later.
| | 01:27 |
If you go under the video's menu you can
see that you can jump directly to My Likes
| | 01:32 |
or directly to My Watch Later.
Since we've Liked and marked to Watch
| | 01:38 |
Later the same video, I can click on
either of these now and see that video.
| | 01:45 |
There it is, my Watch Later, and you can
imagine if I mark a number of things
| | 01:48 |
they'll all join this list.
So just remember, Like to announce to the
| | 01:53 |
rest of the world that you like a video.
Watch Later to put it on your own list to
| | 01:58 |
watch later.
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| Following users and channels and joining groups| 00:00 |
We've been looking at different ways to
interact with videos and the community
| | 00:04 |
using your new Vimeo account.
I want to show you a few more.
| | 00:08 |
In particular, following users, following
channels, and also joining groups.
| | 00:15 |
All three of these things have some
similarities but they're all slightly different.
| | 00:20 |
So I want to go through them one at a
time.
| | 00:22 |
As you can see, we're on a Vimeo video
page and we're logged in.
| | 00:27 |
We can tell we're logged in because we
have a Me menu, and we also have under
| | 00:31 |
Videos, My Likes, My Channels, My Groups,
and et cetera.
| | 00:35 |
We're going to start to populate those
things now.
| | 00:38 |
If I scroll down on this video page, I see
a link to the creator.
| | 00:43 |
That's a link to Kamel Films profile page
and that's where I want to go next.
| | 00:48 |
As you can see, this is the profile page
and there's a prominent button to follow.
| | 00:53 |
That's exactly what I want to do.
Now that I've followed Kamel Films a few
| | 00:57 |
things will happen.
When they post new videos those will show
| | 01:01 |
up on my homepage in what's called My
Feed.
| | 01:05 |
I can also see who I'm following by going
to Me and Following, and there we have
| | 01:11 |
Kamel Films.
By the way if you want to unfollow someone
| | 01:16 |
that's as simple as going back to the
profile page and clicking the same button
| | 01:19 |
to unfollow.
We've already talked about channels as
| | 01:23 |
groupings of video that are created by
users.
| | 01:28 |
But what we can also do is follow a
channel.
| | 01:31 |
Let's see how that works.
Here, I have all my channels, and if I go
| | 01:37 |
to one that interests me, say robots,
again, I have the choice to follow.
| | 01:45 |
Following a channel is very similar to
following a user.
| | 01:49 |
The only real differences would be, that I
can see the channels I follow in My Channels.
| | 01:56 |
Additions to the channel will also be
posted on my homepage feed.
| | 02:00 |
Finally, one more permutation on this
theme.
| | 02:04 |
I want to go to Groups.
Here's a list of featured groups, and it
| | 02:08 |
doesn't really matter which one I pick, I
just want to show you what happens when
| | 02:12 |
you join a group, so I'll pick Short
Films.
| | 02:16 |
Here I am in the Short Films group, and
you see I have a similar button to
| | 02:19 |
following, but instead it says join this
group, so I'm going to go ahead and join.
| | 02:26 |
I can see all of my groups under Videos,
My Groups.
| | 02:33 |
So there's Short Films, the group.
Like following a person or a channel,
| | 02:37 |
items from this group will now be posted
on the feed on my homepage.
| | 02:42 |
I have some additional choices with
groups, however.
| | 02:45 |
Now that I'm a member, I can obviously
leave the group, invite others to the
| | 02:48 |
group, and I also have a few group
preferences.
| | 02:52 |
You can see that I'm a member of the
group, I can opt in or out of emails from
| | 02:56 |
the group, and that's about it for my
preferences.
| | 03:04 |
So you can see how following individuals
and following channels, as well as joining
| | 03:08 |
groups, will all result in activities in
your feed.
| | 03:12 |
You'll be able to reference the people you
followed, the channels you followed, and
| | 03:16 |
the groups, through your menus at the top
of your page when logged in.
| | 03:21 |
And with groups you're open to some
additional activities in terms of people
| | 03:24 |
interacting about the videos that they
post.
| | 03:28 |
These are all great ways to interact with
the Vimeo community.
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| Managing your feed| 00:00 |
Now that we're getting comfortable with
different ways of watching and tracking
| | 00:04 |
videos once you have your Vimeo account, I
want to show you a neat tool called the
| | 00:08 |
Feed Manager which allows you to, you
guessed it, manage your feed.
| | 00:15 |
And remember your feed is the videos that
show up on your home page, and they're
| | 00:19 |
updated frequently based on who and what
you're following.
| | 00:24 |
As you can see I'm on the home page and
I'm already logged in.
| | 00:27 |
You wont actually see a feed at all,
unless you're logged in.
| | 00:30 |
So if you need to log in, go ahead and do
that now.
| | 00:33 |
You can find the Feed Manager under Tools.
There it is, Feed Manager.
| | 00:38 |
As you can see, what the Feed Manager does
is allow you to decide what appears in
| | 00:43 |
your feed, by cross referencing the people
you're following, do you want to see their
| | 00:48 |
videos, their appearances, and their
likes.
| | 00:54 |
So if I want to see every new video from
Tony Cruz, I want to make sure that his
| | 00:58 |
videos are checked.
If I also want to see his likes, I want
| | 01:02 |
his likes to be checked.
If I want to see his videos, but not his
| | 01:07 |
likes, I would uncheck likes.
Same thing goes with any of the channels
| | 01:11 |
I'm following.
When it comes to channels I simply choose
| | 01:15 |
whether this channel publishes new videos
to my feed or not.
| | 01:21 |
There are no likes associated with
channels.
| | 01:25 |
Groups work the same way, although
currently I don't belong to any, as do tags.
| | 01:29 |
Those are search areas that you can
follow.
| | 01:32 |
As you can see, the Feed Manager is a good
way to control what comes up on your feed.
| | 01:38 |
If you like to go to the homepage and just
see what's new, then use the Feed Manager
| | 01:42 |
to micro-manage the types of things that
you like to be promoted to you.
| | 01:47 |
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| Viewing videos in Couch mode| 00:00 |
Now that we're learning more ways to
interact with the community using your
| | 00:03 |
Vimeo account let's let look at a
different way to watch videos that really
| | 00:07 |
comes to life only when you have that
Vimeo account.
| | 00:11 |
It's under watch and it's called couch
mode.
| | 00:15 |
Now when I click this we're going to go
into couch mode and a video's going to
| | 00:18 |
start automatically.
But I'm going to stop that video to just
| | 00:22 |
talk about what couch mode is.
(NOISE) Okay, now we're in what's called
| | 00:31 |
couch mode.
As you can see, the video takes up the
| | 00:37 |
entire screen now, and it's designed to
sit back and use your PC a little more
| | 00:41 |
like a television.
This also works well if you have a Google
| | 00:46 |
TV or if you just attach your laptop to
your television.
| | 00:50 |
You can see that the controls are
optimized so that if you're using a mouse
| | 00:54 |
from a long distance or a different type
of remote control that lets you move the
| | 00:58 |
mouse it's really easy to control
playback.
| | 01:03 |
You can also mark something for like, or
watch later.
| | 01:06 |
Which is exactly the same as you would do
in the normal web interface.
| | 01:10 |
The rest of the metadata that would
usually be on screen is available through
| | 01:13 |
more info.
I go back to the video by clicking here.
| | 01:21 |
This tab down here, brings up a lot of
other choices that lets you navigate
| | 01:24 |
videos on Vimeo, straight from couch mode.
These are suggestions, but what's
| | 01:31 |
important here, is because we're logged
in, we have access to our watch later
| | 01:35 |
list, so a good way to use couch mode is
to add things to watch later.
| | 01:40 |
And then come back and watch them in couch
mode.
| | 01:44 |
You also have a shortcut to all of the
things that are in My Stuff, so that's all
| | 01:47 |
of your videos, your likes, and et cetera.
If you click watch later, you see that we
| | 01:54 |
have the video that we already marked for
watch later.
| | 01:57 |
>> (NOISE)
So pretty.
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>> So, that's couch mode, just another way
to watch videos that's particularly good
| | 02:08 |
for well, sitting on the couch.
You can use couch mode without being
| | 02:14 |
logged in but you won't have access to
watch later and my videos.
| | 02:18 |
Things like that.
So, it works a lot better once you have
| | 02:22 |
the account.
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| Watching videos on demand (paid content)| 00:00 |
In March 2013, Vimeo introduced a new
feature called Video On Demand.
| | 00:07 |
It's very exciting and I want to take a
look.
| | 00:09 |
Under Watch we now have a new On Demand
button.
| | 00:14 |
The idea of On Demand is premium content
that you pay to watch.
| | 00:20 |
You need to have an account to access
this.
| | 00:23 |
I'm not going to watch a full movie, but I
want to show you how it works.
| | 00:26 |
Pick a movie you're interested in.
Now I can watch now or view the trailer
| | 00:34 |
for free, but if I click Watch Now, I'm
going to be greeted with an invitation to pay.
| | 00:41 |
There you have it, just that simple.
A traditional credit card.
| | 00:45 |
Or you can pay with PayPal.
It's a bit outside the scope of this title
| | 00:50 |
to go into monetizing your videos and
adding them to video on demand, but I did
| | 00:54 |
want to show you, as a logged in user, how
you can use this new feature to watch
| | 00:58 |
premium videos.
| | 01:02 |
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| Uploading your first video| 00:00 |
We've been doing lots of fun things with
our Vimeo account.
| | 00:03 |
But now it's time to do the most fun,
upload our own video.
| | 00:05 |
We're going to work on actually preparing
our videos for uploads through compression
| | 00:10 |
in other movies.
For right now, I just want to go through
| | 00:14 |
the process from the Vimeo side of
uploading a video that's already been prepared.
| | 00:19 |
And I've given you one in the exercise
files that you can practice with.
| | 00:22 |
You can upload through the big Upload
button here, or also through the Upload
| | 00:26 |
button on the menu.
These take you to the same place.
| | 00:31 |
Here's a reminder of some of the
guidelines on the site.
| | 00:35 |
And here, I can choose the video to
upload, and I'm just going to surf to it
| | 00:38 |
in the exercise files.
There you see Desktop > Exercise Files.
| | 00:44 |
If you want to try this with your own
file, go ahead, but remember, it does have
| | 00:48 |
to be compressed ahead of time, and I'm
showing that in a different movie.
| | 00:53 |
So there we have the movie I want to
upload.
| | 00:56 |
I choose it.
I can add more videos if I want to do a
| | 00:59 |
batch of videos, but for now I just
want to do one.
| | 01:04 |
So I'm going to Upload Selected Video.
What you can see during the upload or once
| | 01:09 |
it's finished, is I have certain choices
here.
| | 01:14 |
This is Metadata and it's already
incorporated the file name as the title,
| | 01:18 |
but I can doctor that a little bit.
I can also add a description, and I might
| | 01:24 |
in reality add a longer one, but for now,
I'll just fill in something quick.
| | 01:32 |
Tags are especially good for searching and
findability.
| | 01:37 |
You want to separate them with commas and
that's going to help because Santa Barbara
| | 01:42 |
is really only one tag.
I'm also able to add credits but that's
| | 01:47 |
going to be more appropriate for a bigger
video or film that has real credits.
| | 01:55 |
When I'm done, I always want to save these
changes.
| | 01:59 |
And now I want to take a look at some of
my other choices.
| | 02:01 |
Vimeo always gives me privacy choices.
That means that I can decide to have only
| | 02:08 |
me be able to watch the video, only people
that I follow, and we've covered that in a
| | 02:12 |
different movie.
People I designate, or I can password protect.
| | 02:20 |
I can decide, whether my video can be
embedded, that's whether other users can
| | 02:24 |
place it on their sites.
And if anyone can comment, or only people
| | 02:29 |
I follow.
Finally, I can allow or disallow people to
| | 02:33 |
download the original video file.
Or, add it to their collection.
| | 02:38 |
For now, I'm going to leave everything as
is.
| | 02:41 |
Quickly, I just want to look at some of
these other options.
| | 02:46 |
I can add my video to any of the channels
that I've created, groups I've joined, or
| | 02:51 |
albums I've created.
We've covered all of that, except maybe albums.
| | 02:57 |
We'll come back to that.
Here I can add a content rating, a custom
| | 03:02 |
URL, photographs for the page that
accompany the video, and a creative
| | 03:06 |
commons license designation.
And we've already talked about this in detail.
| | 03:12 |
It's a way of providing information for
people that want to share your video in
| | 03:16 |
different ways.
We don't need to change all that and again
| | 03:20 |
I do have the upgrade option that's only
going to relate to once I've upgraded to
| | 03:24 |
Vimeo plus or Vimeo pro.
Let's go to the video and see the results.
| | 03:32 |
We've got approximately 40 minutes to wait
before our video is ready.
| | 03:36 |
Additionally, there's a note that Vimeo
plus members don't have to wait.
| | 03:40 |
One of the benefits of Vimeo Plus is
jumping to the front of the line.
| | 03:45 |
If we scroll down, we can see where our
metadata was added.
| | 03:48 |
That's our title and the short description
that we wrote.
| | 03:52 |
That's all there is to it except to come
back and actually watch the video when
| | 03:55 |
it's done.
| | 03:57 |
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4. Developing Video Content for VimeoCreating content for the Vimeo community| 00:00 |
Vimeo is a great place to upload all kinds
of video, and it works great as sort of a
| | 00:04 |
utility application.
But there are also certain types of
| | 00:09 |
content that work really well for the
Vimeo community, and I want to take a
| | 00:12 |
moment to talk about what that community
values in terms of content.
| | 00:17 |
First of all, it's a community that's
really oriented to quality of all types.
| | 00:22 |
It's much more of an artistic community.
You're more likely to see things that
| | 00:27 |
relate to actual film than, say,
advertising or marketing there.
| | 00:32 |
Second, technique in the classical
cinematic sense is really appreciated.
| | 00:37 |
You'll find that other members of the
community will favorably comment and like
| | 00:41 |
your video for things like composition,
lighting, good audio technique.
| | 00:47 |
Although content is king, technique is
appreciated.
| | 00:49 |
Vimeo was a leader in putting the high
definition video picture online, and to
| | 00:54 |
this day it's recommended that everything
you upload you create as high definition video.
| | 01:01 |
It's not that you can't put standard
definition on Vimeo, but the community
| | 01:05 |
really values the high def look.
Finally, Vimeo is a community of artists,
| | 01:10 |
filmmakers, musicians.
And they value that artistic effort, that
| | 01:15 |
risk taking.
If you put something on Vimeo that may not
| | 01:19 |
be perfect, but you can see that creative
effort, that works really well too.
| | 01:25 |
Again feel free to use Vimeo for any
content that you like.
| | 01:29 |
These tips are more about the types of
things that are really appreciated in the
| | 01:33 |
Vimeo online community.
| | 01:36 |
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| Planning the production process| 00:00 |
With all today's technological options,
there's many different ways to create video.
| | 00:06 |
One of the dangers though, is that we
loose track of the classical process, that
| | 00:10 |
always guided the way films and videos
were made.
| | 00:15 |
I want to go over that process now.
Because I think it's very valuable to
| | 00:19 |
think in terms of, step-by-step, what
comes next?
| | 00:23 |
And how do we categorize the different
parts of the process?
| | 00:27 |
First, pre-production is defined as all of
your planning and research.
| | 00:31 |
Everything that goes into a project before
you shoot the first frame.
| | 00:35 |
In fiction, it might be script writing.
In documentary, it might be research and
| | 00:39 |
finding your interview subjects.
It's just everything you do to get ready.
| | 00:44 |
Location scouting, everything.
Next, production is defined as all of your
| | 00:49 |
shooting and acquisition.
And if you think about it acquisition
| | 00:53 |
could include things like scanning photos,
and recording music, or sound effects.
| | 00:59 |
It's basically everything you do to
collect the media assets that you'll cut
| | 01:03 |
into your film or video.
Postproduction is editing.
| | 01:08 |
All of the steps for stitching together
your raw video and making your program.
| | 01:14 |
In general, post production would include
not just editorial editing, where you make
| | 01:18 |
your story, but also steps like graphics,
color correction, and etc.
| | 01:23 |
Compression is defined as making the video
file smaller for delivery.
| | 01:31 |
We do compression when we do all sorts of
web video, including Vimeo, as well as
| | 01:35 |
DVD, Blu Ray.
Any sort of change in the video file to
| | 01:40 |
make it smaller, and ready for delivery
and distribution.
| | 01:45 |
Finally we have authoring, sometimes
called wrapping for delivery and also
| | 01:49 |
programming interactivity.
If you think of a distribution medium like
| | 01:55 |
DVD, every DVD has a simple menu.
Even if it doesn't have a lot of choices
| | 01:59 |
or extras, there's still that simple menu
and that needs to be authored.
| | 02:04 |
Web video is the same way, when you put it
on the right page, or you embed it, or you
| | 02:08 |
add the meta data, all of that is
considered part of authoring your web video.
| | 02:14 |
Okay.
These are just some process tips to hang
| | 02:18 |
on to for any production process that
you're doing.
| | 02:21 |
I promise you, if you think in this
process oriented way, it will save you
| | 02:25 |
time and money.
| | 02:27 |
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| Shooting tips for Vimeo| 00:00 |
I want to offer some tips for shooting
video for Vimeo.
| | 00:05 |
Now there's a lot of different ways to
create video, and a lot of different goals
| | 00:08 |
you may have.
So these are some general tips that I
| | 00:12 |
think work particularly well for this
platform.
| | 00:15 |
First although we can shoot video on
everything from our phone to our tablet in
| | 00:20 |
a million different ways, consider using
real camera gear and real equipment if you
| | 00:26 |
can afford it.
It will make a difference at the end of
| | 00:31 |
the day.
Second, lighting always matters even if
| | 00:34 |
you don't have access to a robust light
kit still think about lighting, the
| | 00:38 |
position of your light sources even if
that light source is the sun and even if
| | 00:42 |
you only have a few lights make the most
out of them.
| | 00:49 |
Audio is one of the most commonly
overlooked aspects of production, and it
| | 00:53 |
makes a huge difference.
Just like video, consider high-end
| | 00:58 |
microphones but, moreover, make sure
someone on set is responsible for paying
| | 01:02 |
attention to the audio.
That's the first step in getting good
| | 01:07 |
audio on production.
One thing I like to try, especially if I
| | 01:12 |
know my video might be seen on a small
screen, is a tight framing, but a
| | 01:16 |
wide-angle lens.
We also say, zoom with your feet.
| | 01:22 |
In other words, don't just zoom in to
reframe the shot, but move towards your subject.
| | 01:28 |
If you use a tight framing, but a wide
angle.
| | 01:30 |
You still see a lot of your background
because of that wide angle lens.
| | 01:36 |
It's not the way you want to shoot
everything, but consider this method if
| | 01:39 |
you know your video is going primarily
online and on Vimeo.
| | 01:43 |
Finally, try to break away from the things
we see everyday on television, sitcoms,
| | 01:49 |
the news, the community that is Vimeo
really likes film in the classical sense.
| | 01:57 |
And if you orient yourself to producing
filmically, cinematically.
| | 02:01 |
Just with the ideas and conventions that
go more with the movies than with the
| | 02:05 |
televisions screen.
You're on the right track to shooting for Vimeo.
| | 02:11 |
So those are my tips.
I think they're particular good for Vimeo
| | 02:15 |
and most of them are useful for any
production scenario.
| | 02:19 |
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| Editing and post-production tips for Vimeo| 00:00 |
I wanted to share some tips on editing
your video for Vimeo.
| | 00:05 |
Now granted, there are a lot of different
goals and choices you might make.
| | 00:09 |
So these are just some high level tips and
ideas especially if you know that your
| | 00:13 |
video is intended for Vimeo or online
viewing.
| | 00:17 |
First remember that you want to try to
keep your hd quality throughout your
| | 00:22 |
product process.
Some post production processes start with
| | 00:28 |
high resolution video but actually edit at
a lower resolution.
| | 00:33 |
You really want to avoid that, and
understand your technical workflow so that
| | 00:38 |
you output the same HD quality that you
shot.
| | 00:42 |
And, of course, it goes without saying
that you want to shoot HD for Vimeo.
| | 00:46 |
Second, consider curtailing the amount of
dissolves, wipes, irises.
| | 00:53 |
These are the different transitions that
go across a cut.
| | 00:57 |
They make them look fancier, sometimes
more attractive, sometimes not.
| | 01:02 |
But the point is, if you know your video
is going to be compressed, sometimes these
| | 01:06 |
transitions don't look as good in the
final version on Vimeo as they do when
| | 01:11 |
you're editing them.
It doesn't mean you can never use them,
| | 01:16 |
but if you're considering a fancy wipe.
Or a long dissolve, just see if a cut
| | 01:22 |
would work in its place.
I personally think this is good practice
| | 01:26 |
for any video because these transitions
can be overused.
| | 01:30 |
But if you know your video is going online
or to Vimeo primarily, that's another
| | 01:34 |
technical reason to consider cuts over
transitions.
| | 01:39 |
For the same reason avoid extremely fast
editing.
| | 01:43 |
Something that you might do in a music
video, a commercial, or a fast paced montage.
| | 01:49 |
That's the word for fast-paced video
cutting.
| | 01:53 |
Might not look as good by the time it's
compressed.
| | 01:56 |
Now there are other factors here And
certainly we see quickly edited material
| | 02:00 |
look relatively good online.
But while you're in the editing phase,
| | 02:06 |
consider staying away from those fast-cut
sequences to facilitate cleaner compression.
| | 02:13 |
We've also seen it where we can't make out
all of those images in the fast-cut sequence.
| | 02:18 |
Because the web compression has degraded
it and that's what we want to avoid.
| | 02:23 |
We often use graphics on our video to make
title and identify things.
| | 02:28 |
Just remember on Vimeo, some people will
be watching on a full-sized television.
| | 02:33 |
But other people might be watching on
their computer, their laptop or even their
| | 02:37 |
mobile device.
Its important that you make all of your
| | 02:42 |
identifiers large enough and clear enough
that they're readable even on a small screen.
| | 02:48 |
At the end of the day all video is all
about content, all about story, all about
| | 02:52 |
message, and what you're trying to say and
that is doubly true on vimeo.
| | 02:58 |
Which is a community of artists and
creative people that value those very same things.
| | 03:04 |
So all these tips are important.
But at the end of the day, the most
| | 03:07 |
important thing is to tell your story.
So those are my editing tips.
| | 03:12 |
I think that they work especially well for
vimeo in particular.
| | 03:16 |
But most of them work pretty well for any
video process that you're doing.
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5. Understanding Digital Video Technology for VimeoUnderstanding the Vimeo upload process| 00:00 |
As we've seen, posting a video to Vimeo is
not particularly difficult.
| | 00:05 |
However, for the benefits of quality and
troubleshooting, it's a good idea to know
| | 00:10 |
what's happening behind the curtain, how
Vimeo really works technically.
| | 00:15 |
There's several steps to uploading a video
to Vimeo.
| | 00:19 |
The key is that every video that's on
Vimeo is actually compressed twice.
| | 00:24 |
So, after we create our video, we need to
compress it in order to upload it.
| | 00:30 |
Most video formats, and if your video is
more than just a few seconds, are simply
| | 00:34 |
going to be too large to upload.
But once we upload that file, Vimeo
| | 00:39 |
compresses it again for final delivery in
their format.
| | 00:43 |
The implication of this is that the
compression that we do, to create our
| | 00:47 |
upload file, should try to preserve as
much quality as possible.
| | 00:52 |
It doesn't have to be terribly small.
It doesn't have to be small enough to
| | 00:57 |
stream to all of our users.
Vimeo is going to take care of that.
| | 01:02 |
It just has to be small enough to fit
under our limits and guidelines on Vimeo,
| | 01:06 |
and of course those are going to adjust if
we open up a Plus or a Pro account.
| | 01:12 |
And also, it needs to upload in a
reasonable amount of time.
| | 01:16 |
But, sometimes an overnight upload is
okay.
| | 01:19 |
So the principle here, and we're going to
see this in detail in different editing
| | 01:23 |
programs, is to export your Vimeo file at
a level that's high quality, but takes
| | 01:27 |
away enough size to make it uploadable.
It's kind of a middle ground file that
| | 01:33 |
Vimeo is going to use to compress a second
time.
| | 01:37 |
I think having this background
information, while not crucial, does help
| | 01:40 |
if you're trying to troubleshoot your
video or go for maximum quality.
| | 01:45 |
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| Understanding video resolution| 00:00 |
Vimeo is all about high definition video
on the web.
| | 00:05 |
That's how they really made their mark.
But what are we really saying when we say
| | 00:09 |
high definition, or for that matter,
standard definition?
| | 00:13 |
There's a lot of possibilities and it's
constantly changing.
| | 00:17 |
So I thought it would be a good idea to go
over some facts and figures as they relate
| | 00:20 |
to resolution.
As you can see from the diagram, there's
| | 00:25 |
many current resolutions.
DV designates digital video or the
| | 00:31 |
resolution of traditional television, 480
by 720.
| | 00:36 |
As we go up to 720p, you see that these
designations are based on the vertical
| | 00:41 |
pixel measurement.
So that's 720 pixels by 1280 pixels across.
| | 00:48 |
And that's 720p category was considered
for a long time high definition on the web
| | 00:53 |
and was what many television stations used
when they first switched over to high definition.
| | 01:01 |
Moving up to the next category is 1080p.
That's what high definition television is today.
| | 01:08 |
Pretty much all stations broadcasting high
definition are now at 1080p.
| | 01:13 |
2K and especially 4K designate what's
called digital cinema.
| | 01:20 |
These resolutions are still not available
on Vimeo or on most television sets.
| | 01:26 |
So today on Vimeo, 720p is still
supported, and in most cases, recommended.
| | 01:33 |
1080p is now available on Vimeo.
But I advise you to use caution.
| | 01:39 |
It's possible to upload a video that's so
large that it works well when you upload,
| | 01:44 |
but many of your users might not see good
playback because the video itself is
| | 01:49 |
simply too large in data terms to play
back smoothly through their data connection.
| | 01:58 |
And you wouldn't really know this unless
you reach out to a lot of people with
| | 02:01 |
different connection speeds and see how
their video is playing.
| | 02:06 |
In the Vimeo literature, you'll see these
same warnings and caveats.
| | 02:11 |
You can try 1080p, but use it with
caution.
| | 02:16 |
Also, as you move up to Vimeo Plus and
Vimeo Pro, there's some more choices in
| | 02:21 |
these resolution areas.
We'll talk about all that in detail.
| | 02:27 |
So now we can see how Vimeo and online
video relate to television, high
| | 02:32 |
definition and also digital film.
I would expect that in the coming years
| | 02:40 |
Vimeo will continue to upgrade and they
will actually support higher resolutions
| | 02:44 |
as those resolutions become more common.
All of this is a thing in motion and
| | 02:49 |
that's one of the most important things to
remember.
| | 02:52 |
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| Making sure video is deinterlaced| 00:00 |
If you spend some time with Vimeo's
optimization settings.
| | 00:04 |
Which we'll do in a bit.
You'll see the term de-interlacing come up.
| | 00:09 |
It's an important concept, so I want to
define it.
| | 00:13 |
As a matter of fact, before we talk about
de-interlacing, I think we need to talk
| | 00:16 |
about what is interlacing.
Interlacing is a technology used in
| | 00:21 |
traditional television.
It splits every frame of video into two
| | 00:27 |
fields, the even and odd lines of pixels
in the frame.
| | 00:33 |
Rather than refreshing the whole frame at
once.
| | 00:36 |
It runs through one field, and then the
other field.
| | 00:40 |
And the two fields when put together, make
a single frame usually about a 30th of a
| | 00:45 |
second of video.
Progressive video, conversely, acts more
| | 00:50 |
like film.
It refreshes all of the pixels at once,
| | 00:54 |
much like a cell of film is refreshed when
the new cell of film comes in.
| | 01:00 |
Or the way a flip book is refreshed when
you flip through the pages.
| | 01:05 |
When you see an i, in for instance, 1080i,
it means interlaced.
| | 01:10 |
Similarly, the p in 720p means
progressive.
| | 01:16 |
The problem, then, is that many cameras
still shoot an interlaced signal.
| | 01:20 |
But all computer monitors display the
video progressively.
| | 01:25 |
The result of that incongruity is we'll
sometimes see the little marks or
| | 01:31 |
artifacts of interlacing, when we see our
final web video.
| | 01:37 |
This often looks like small, little lines
especially when there's a lot of motion in
| | 01:41 |
the frame.
When something moves quickly from right to
| | 01:45 |
left or left to right, you can often
detect the little interlacing lines.
| | 01:51 |
The solution is to de-interlace the video.
This is often as simple as a check box on
| | 01:57 |
export, or adding a filter in your editing
program.
| | 02:01 |
But if you don't have the concept and the
vocabulary, then you don't know what
| | 02:04 |
you're doing and what you're checking.
That's my point here, is just to
| | 02:09 |
understand interlacing and de-interlacing
so you know why you might want to apply
| | 02:14 |
it, for the sole purpose of improving the
quality of your Vimeo videos.
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| Using the recommended optimization specifications| 00:00 |
It's time to start looking at the details
of technically compressing video for Vimeo.
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But before we get into specific programs.
I want to show you a very important page
| | 00:10 |
on the Vimeo site that has the technical
guidelines.
| | 00:13 |
As you can see, I'm starting on the
homepage, and I'm logged in.
| | 00:17 |
Although you don't need to be logged in to
access this information.
| | 00:21 |
I'm going to scroll down to click on one
of the help links and I'm a little
| | 00:24 |
disappointed that this information has
been a little buried on the site.
| | 00:28 |
It used to be easier to find.
Right now we can find it through the Help Center.
| | 00:33 |
I'm sure we could search for it but if we
scroll down we have number four make
| | 00:36 |
better videos and compression guidelines.
That's exactly the page I want, the
| | 00:41 |
compression guidelines.
What you have here is two very important things.
| | 00:47 |
On the left hand side are all of the
details for the ideal file to upload to Vimeo.
| | 00:54 |
Now,to be clear, Vimeo can accept many
types of files with many parameters, but
| | 00:58 |
the description here is what they consider
ideal.
| | 01:03 |
One other important point before we go
over the details.
| | 01:06 |
Which is that these things change.
Vimeo is constantly updating its technology.
| | 01:11 |
And when it makes those updates, it will
also update these ideal settings.
| | 01:16 |
We've already talked about moving from 720
p to 1080 p and you'll see how that's
| | 01:19 |
dealt with here.
My process, especially if I haven't
| | 01:23 |
uploaded anything to Vimeo in a month or
two is to start by checking this page just
| | 01:27 |
to make sure the recommendations haven't
changed.
| | 01:31 |
Let's look at the details.
The codec is the algorithm that actually
| | 01:35 |
encodes your video, and the algorithm
recommended is a common one called H.264.
| | 01:42 |
This is something that you'll see in many
pieces of software as a designation.
| | 01:46 |
And if you see it, you do want to choose
it.
| | 01:48 |
H.264 is one of the most popular codecs
today for high quality video compression.
| | 01:55 |
And it's the one that Vimeo favors.
You can see here that there are certain
| | 01:59 |
advance settings.
They won't be available to you in all scenarios.
| | 02:03 |
But if you see any of these options, you
want to go ahead and check them.
| | 02:07 |
Frame rate is the number of frames per
second in your video.
| | 02:10 |
You can see here that Vimeo always
recommends that you just don't mess with this.
| | 02:16 |
If you shot 24 frames per second, leave it
at 24 frames per second.
| | 02:21 |
If you shot 30 frames per second, leave it
there.
| | 02:24 |
Next we have bit rate.
Also known as data rate.
| | 02:28 |
Recognize that bit rate is not the overall
size of your video, so much as the rate at
| | 02:33 |
which it plays back.
It's how many bytes per second.
| | 02:38 |
When you see this ps, that's per second,
and it describes a rate rather than an
| | 02:43 |
overall size.
As you can see, there's different
| | 02:47 |
recommended bit-rates depending on the
resolution you are working with.
| | 02:52 |
The more pixels, the more data per second
is needed.
| | 02:55 |
So here you have all the recommendations.
I don't want you to worry about this stuff
| | 03:00 |
because most programs will facilitate this
without you needing to know all these numbers.
| | 03:05 |
However, if you want to raise the bar on
your quality or you want to trouble shoot
| | 03:09 |
that's when you need to know this stuff.
Here we have the common resolutions
| | 03:14 |
supported by Vimeo and again you see this
tracks our lesson about standard
| | 03:19 |
definition, high definition 720 and the
highest definition available, 1080p.
| | 03:25 |
For each higher resolution we also have a
higher bit rate.
| | 03:30 |
However, be aware at this top designation
that you really need to be careful because
| | 03:34 |
not everyone will be able to play this top
quality video back effectively.
| | 03:39 |
I pretty much recommend sticking at the
720p level.
| | 03:43 |
Next, audio has a different codec, and
it's called AAC.
| | 03:48 |
Again, you just want to remember that this
is the one to select, and then if you have
| | 03:52 |
a choice for data rate, you want to bring
it all the way up to 320 kilobits per
| | 03:56 |
second and sample rate of 48 kilohertz.
Again, most of this will be sort of
| | 04:02 |
hardwired in to your export choices, but
in the event you have these choices you
| | 04:06 |
want to know what to choose.
And in the event that you're not getting
| | 04:10 |
the quality you want, these will be your
keys to tweaking it.
| | 04:14 |
Last, I want to point out a very
convenient feature on this page, which is
| | 04:18 |
a bunch of video tutorials specific to
software.
| | 04:22 |
We're going to cover a number of pieces of
software, but there's even more here.
| | 04:27 |
So if you're using a piece of software
that we don't cover, I advise that you
| | 04:30 |
jump in, and look at one of these video
tutorials for exactly how to export out of
| | 04:33 |
your specific piece of software.
There's a close look at Vimeo's
| | 04:39 |
compression guidelines.
In most scenarios, you won't really need
| | 04:43 |
this information, but I want you to have
it, in case you're not getting the quality
| | 04:46 |
you want, or you want to try some
tweaking.
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6. Compressing and Uploading Videos for VimeoChoosing software and workflow for Vimeo uploads| 00:00 |
These days, there are a lot of options for
creating videos and preparing them for
| | 00:04 |
upload to Vimeo.
We're going to look at a lot of specific
| | 00:07 |
options, but I just wanted to do an
overview to categorize some of the
| | 00:11 |
different tools we'll be talking about.
First, there are full fledged non-linear editors.
| | 00:18 |
Like Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro.
These are professional level editing software.
| | 00:24 |
And they all have the capacity to export
directly, a file that's appropriate to Vimeo.
| | 00:30 |
Some of them also automate that process.
Second, there are dedicated compression
| | 00:35 |
programs, like Apple's compressor, or
Adobe Media Encoder.
| | 00:39 |
These often but not always ship with a
non-linear and they are a dedicated
| | 00:43 |
program that let's you adjust all of the
parameters of your compression.
| | 00:48 |
In a lot of ways this is the best best
when you're going for maximum control and
| | 00:51 |
maximum quality.
Next we have consumer based programs like
| | 00:56 |
iMovie, Premier Elements and Windows Movie
Maker Live.
| | 01:01 |
These are often used for things like home
videos and, again, they often facilitate
| | 01:05 |
uploading to YouTube but they take out a
lot of the control in favor of simplicity.
| | 01:11 |
QuickTime is a video utility program.
It doesn't do a lot of editing, nor does
| | 01:17 |
it do very sophisticated compressions, but
it is a utility that will let you bring in
| | 01:21 |
certain types of video and Save As a
compressed version that's appropriate for YouTube.
| | 01:28 |
Finally, we're seeing more and more
cameras and mobile devices that connect
| | 01:32 |
directly from the web and often have
methods to upload to Vimeo without ever
| | 01:36 |
coming off of the camera or device.
We'll look at how to upload directly from
| | 01:42 |
your mobile device in another movie.
This is far from all the options that you
| | 01:47 |
have to prepare video for Vimeo, but these
are the main, basic categories that you'll
| | 01:51 |
probably find yourself in.
Professional editing, compression suite,
| | 01:56 |
hobbyist editing, utility program, mobile
device.
| | 02:00 |
There's going to be more choices within
that, but those are the main categories.
| | 02:04 |
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| Exporting from Adode Premiere Pro| 00:00 |
Adobe Premiere Pro is a popular editing
program, and it has some great tools for
| | 00:05 |
exporting to Vimeo.
Let's see how it works.
| | 00:09 |
As you can see, I'm in my Adobe Premiere
Pro interface, and I have a finished short video.
| | 00:14 |
Let's play a little bit just to make sure
it's what we think it is.
| | 00:17 |
(MUSIC).
Yep, that's my finished video.
| | 00:26 |
Now it's time to export it for a file that
we can upload to Vimeo.
| | 00:30 |
I want to start that process under File >
Export.
| | 00:33 |
And I want to export a media file.
Notice that the shortcut is also Cmd+M.
| | 00:40 |
Here I have a pretty robust export
feature.
| | 00:44 |
I want to start my settings up here.
And the first one I want to choose is H.264.
| | 00:50 |
You'll remember that that designation is
what's recommended in the optimize
| | 00:53 |
settings on the Vimeo website.
Once I choose that, I have a number of
| | 00:58 |
presets to choose from.
And if you scroll down, you'll see that
| | 01:01 |
there's a whole series that are dedicated
to Vimeo.
| | 01:05 |
The thing that's important here is you
want to match the resolution and frame
| | 01:09 |
rate that your video is natively.
And you just have to know that at this point.
| | 01:15 |
So I know that I'm editing 720p video at
24 frames per second, or more precisely,
| | 01:21 |
23.976 frames per second.
But you have to check this for yourself.
| | 01:27 |
You may be editing at 1080 and you may be
editing at standard def.
| | 01:30 |
And it's not going to pay to choose
something higher than the actual level
| | 01:33 |
that you're editing at.
You want to just match the resolution and
| | 01:37 |
frame rate that you have.
So now we have applied our preset, but
| | 01:41 |
Adobe Premiere will also let us adjust
this.
| | 01:44 |
And you can do that down here.
if I scroll down you see some of the choices.
| | 01:49 |
In particular, bit rate that we talked
about and also there is frame rate.
| | 01:54 |
We don't want to change frame rate
definitely.
| | 01:57 |
We also probably don't want to change bit
rate.
| | 02:00 |
However, if you export your video and you
find that the quality is not what you
| | 02:04 |
want, this is where you could nudge it up
a little bit and add more quality.
| | 02:09 |
On the other side, if you find that a lot
of people with slower connections are
| | 02:12 |
having trouble playing back your video
because it's loading too slowly, you could
| | 02:15 |
nudge these down a little bit.
We're going to leave these exactly where
| | 02:19 |
they are.
I am going to click on my output name just
| | 02:21 |
to check where this is being saved and
fantastic.
| | 02:25 |
We're going to the desktop exactly where I
want it.
| | 02:27 |
I'm going to go ahead and click Save.
(SOUND) When everything is ready, I'll
| | 02:32 |
just click Export and I'll be creating the
file that'll be ready to upload to Vimeo.
| | 02:38 |
That's all done.
Let me go out to my desktop, just to see
| | 02:40 |
where that file is.
There you see our farm to table.mp4.
| | 02:45 |
It's about 16 megabytes, which is
certainly small enough to upload.
| | 02:50 |
Remember we went through the steps to
upload in Chapter 3.
| | 02:53 |
So if you've used Premiere, this is the
file that you'll use when you reach that
| | 02:56 |
point to browse to the file to upload.
As you can see, exporting from Premiere
| | 03:02 |
Pro is very straightforward.
But you also have the ability to control
| | 03:06 |
your export a lot if you want to tweak it.
| | 03:08 |
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| Uploading from Final Cut Pro| 00:00 |
Final Cut Pro is a popular, non-linear
editing program.
| | 00:04 |
And it has lots of great options for
exporting to Vimeo.
| | 00:08 |
Let's see how they work.
As you can see, I'm already in the Final
| | 00:11 |
Cut interface and I have a short but
complete timeline.
| | 00:15 |
I want to play a little bit of this just
to make sure it is what I think it is.
| | 00:18 |
(MUSIC) Yep, that's my video.
Now it's time to export it for Vimeo.
| | 00:28 |
We're going to start out under File >
Share and we see that we have a Vimeo option.
| | 00:32 |
That's going to be an automated wizard
that compresses and uploads direct to Vimeo.
| | 00:37 |
I'm going to show you in a second, but I
also want to mention some other options
| | 00:40 |
because this is going to take us all the
way to the website.
| | 00:43 |
You may sometimes want to create your
video file and upload it later.
| | 00:47 |
In that case, Apple Devices 720p works
really well.
| | 00:51 |
I know that it's designated as an Apple
export, but it does make files that work
| | 00:55 |
really well on Vimeo also, especially if
you want to upload them later, which this
| | 00:58 |
choice won't allow you to do.
Before we go there, I also want to mention
| | 01:03 |
Send to Compressor.
Compressor is a stand-alone, non-linear
| | 01:07 |
editor, and it gives you the most control
over your compressions.
| | 01:11 |
However, it is a separate piece of
software, and it doesn't ship with Final
| | 01:15 |
Cut Pro.
Therefore, you may or may not have this
| | 01:18 |
option, depending on if you have this
software.
| | 01:21 |
Okay.
Let's see how the Share, Vimeo option works.
| | 01:25 |
Here we are, and our first choice is for
info.
| | 01:28 |
What you see is, this has already been
populated based on the information already
| | 01:33 |
in the project, however, we can click into
one of these to change it.
| | 01:38 |
So Form to Table Short suits me but I'd
rather say something like that and also I
| | 01:43 |
can edit my tags by adding more.
So I might put something like that.
| | 01:48 |
Remember, these two are going to appear on
your video page.
| | 01:52 |
But tags are really to make the video more
searchable.
| | 01:55 |
Let's move over to settings.
In a moment, I'll sign into my Vimeo account.
| | 02:00 |
But I just want to talk about each one of
these settings.
| | 02:02 |
You can see that I've automatically been
set to highest resolution available.
| | 02:07 |
Because I'm editing at 720p HD, that's
what I default to.
| | 02:12 |
I don't want to move down to SD or large,
and I cant go up to 1080, I can't increase
| | 02:16 |
the resolution at this step, blowing it up
here would not make any sense.
| | 02:22 |
What I do want to do is maintain exactly
the way I shot and edited, which is 720p.
| | 02:27 |
I have a choice here between faster
encode, and better quality.
| | 02:32 |
This is also sometimes called variable
bit-rate encoding, and this would be
| | 02:36 |
single pass for faster encode, and
two-pass for better quality.
| | 02:41 |
The idea is that better quality, gives the
computer more time to analyze the video
| | 02:46 |
and therefore makes a better quality
encode.
| | 02:49 |
I think this is pretty straightforward.
If speed is your priority, Choose Faster,
| | 02:53 |
if quality is your priority and you have
plenty of time, Choose Better Quality.
| | 02:58 |
I'm going to leave it on Faster for our
demonstration, but if you find that you're
| | 03:01 |
not liking the quality, the first thing to
try is to give the computer a little more
| | 03:05 |
time to work on it.
And here I have a choice that's consistent
| | 03:09 |
with what we have in the Vimeo interface.
Right off the bat when I post this, I can
| | 03:14 |
post it privately for people I follow or
for anyone to see.
| | 03:18 |
I'm going to post it for anyone.
I want to make the point that this choice
| | 03:22 |
here, viewable by, as well as all the
metadata on the info pane can also be
| | 03:26 |
changed once you've uploaded to Vimeo.
However, you're unable to change the
| | 03:33 |
quality of your video after this stage.
As you can see, Final Cut Pro X allows me
| | 03:38 |
to log right into Vimeo through its
interface.
| | 03:43 |
Ok, I've set everything up for the export
and I'm going to click next.
| | 03:47 |
This is a helpful warning.
It just informs you that you are really
| | 03:52 |
uploading to Vimeo, and you have to abide
by Vimeo's terms of use and also a little
| | 03:56 |
reminder that this video is set as public.
Of course, if it was set as private, it
| | 04:01 |
would say that too.
I'm ready to publish.
| | 04:04 |
You can see our progress going on in the
background.
| | 04:07 |
Right here, and you see that we're up to
20% or so already.
| | 04:12 |
Once this is finished, our video will
automatically be uploaded to Vimeo.
| | 04:17 |
Okay, this part of the process is done and
our video has been compressed and uploaded
| | 04:21 |
to Vimeo.
I think it's still going to take some time
| | 04:24 |
on Vimeo to complete, but let's switch
over and see what we see on the website.
| | 04:29 |
Here we are in the vimeo home page.
And I'm already logged in.
| | 04:32 |
If you're not logged in you probably
want to log in now, or else you won't see
| | 04:35 |
your video.
Go ahead and click on My Videos.
| | 04:38 |
And here we can see that's the new video
we just uploaded.
| | 04:42 |
And this is what you see on vimeo when
your video is still compressing.
| | 04:46 |
If I click on the video itself or the
video name.
| | 04:49 |
I'll go to that video page and here I can
get a time estimate of how long it's
| | 04:53 |
going to take.
It looks likes it's going to take about 40 minutes.
| | 04:57 |
Remember being a basic member of Vimeo
puts you in a cue.
| | 05:01 |
But if you upgrade to Vimeo Plus or Vimeo
Pro you go right to the front of that line
| | 05:05 |
and often your compressions start
immediately.
| | 05:08 |
I think that you can see that exporting
out of Final Cut Pro is really straightforward.
| | 05:13 |
It makes your compression and links right
to Vimeo.
| | 05:16 |
Alternately, you have the option of
sending to Compressor, to take more control.
| | 05:20 |
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| Uploading from iMovie| 00:00 |
Most common video editing programs have a
built in way to make exports to Vimeo.
| | 00:05 |
iMovie is no exception, let's see how it
works.
| | 00:08 |
I already have iMovie open and I've got a
project set up.
| | 00:12 |
Let's play a little bit just to make sure
it is what I think it is.
| | 00:15 |
(MUSIC).
Yup, that's my program.
| | 00:22 |
Now I'm going to go ahead and export it
for vimeo.
| | 00:25 |
In iMovie, that process starts on the
Share menu.
| | 00:28 |
As you can see, right on the share menu I
have a choice for Vimeo.
| | 00:32 |
Here we see a dedicated interface that in
a lot of ways is similar to what you would
| | 00:35 |
see uploading through the Vimeo site.
I've already filled in my log in name, but
| | 00:40 |
I do have to refresh my password.
I can decide, at least initially, how my
| | 00:45 |
video will be viewed on Vimeo.
So I can make it available to everyone,
| | 00:49 |
but I can also limit it to my contacts or
make it private.
| | 00:53 |
Now remember, all of these things can be
changed later on the Vimeo site.
| | 00:57 |
So I'm going to make my video available
but you can also set it up Privately, and
| | 01:00 |
then later make changes and open it up to
the rest of the world.
| | 01:05 |
Here you can see that some information
from my project has already been picked up
| | 01:08 |
as Metadata.
I can edit this here, but I can also edit
| | 01:11 |
it later, so I don't always put the
detailed information in here in this interface.
| | 01:17 |
Sometimes I wait and flesh it out in the
Vimeo website.
| | 01:20 |
Last, don't forget that you can add tags,
which make your video more findable.
| | 01:24 |
Again we can add more tags later,
technically we have choices as to what
| | 01:28 |
size we can export.
You'll notice that I only have sizes up to
| | 01:33 |
the resolution that I created.
So this video started at 720p HD and
| | 01:37 |
that's the highest that I can choose and I
do want to choose that for Vimeo.
| | 01:42 |
If you shot HD, and you have the choice to
post HD on Vimeo, I would always take it,
| | 01:46 |
because Vimeo really does specialize in HD
video.
| | 01:50 |
Okay, let's hit Next.
Here we have a final warning that tells us
| | 01:54 |
first that we have to obey the Vimeo terms
of use.
| | 01:57 |
But also that by clicking Publish, this is
going live to the world.
| | 02:01 |
It's good to have a final check because
you are really publishing your video.
| | 02:04 |
iMovie first compressed my video then
uploaded it to Vimeo.
| | 02:13 |
Then finally, gave me a message that it
probably won't be ready immediately.
| | 02:17 |
And gave me the link to where it's
located, which also have a shortcut to view.
| | 02:22 |
I'm going to go ahead and click that, but
I don't expect the video to be done yet.
| | 02:26 |
We should be able to get a time estimate
of how long it'll take, however.
| | 02:29 |
Here we are on the new video page.
You see that we're waiting in line, and we
| | 02:33 |
have about 45 minutes till they expect the
video to be ready.
| | 02:37 |
Always remember that if you're tired of
waiting in line, Vimeo Plus, which does
| | 02:40 |
cost money, also jumps you to the front of
the queue.
| | 02:44 |
As you can see, exporting from iMovie to
Vimeo is really no problem at all.
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| Uploading from Windows Movie Maker| 00:00 |
Windows Movie Maker is a free video
editing program available on the Windows platform.
| | 00:05 |
It has several good tools to upload videos
to Vimeo.
| | 00:09 |
Let's see how they work.
I'm already in Windows Movie Maker and I
| | 00:12 |
have a short but complete video.
Let me play a few seconds to make sure
| | 00:16 |
it's what I want.
(MUSIC).
| | 00:22 |
Yep, that's my video.
Now you can see that there's a Share menu here.
| | 00:26 |
And one of the options is the Vimeo icon.
Go ahead and click that and you'll see
| | 00:31 |
that we get a convenient Wizard for
uploading to Vimeo.
| | 00:35 |
Its worth noting at this point that I did
need to sign in with a Windows live account.
| | 00:40 |
In order to do this integration, you do
need to have an account and be signed in
| | 00:43 |
with Windows live.
In a moment, we'll see that its also
| | 00:47 |
necessary to be signed in at Vimeo.
Now, this is an important choice we always
| | 00:52 |
want to choose the highest reolution that
is no jigher than the resolution that we
| | 00:55 |
shot and edited.
In my case, that's going to be the 720
| | 01:00 |
option, because that's where we shot the
video.
| | 01:03 |
So, go ahead and click 720.
Now you see that we are required to
| | 01:08 |
authorize our Vimeo account before it will
let Windows Movie Maker access it.
| | 01:14 |
So, you can go ahead and click authorize,
and it's going to launch a browser which
| | 01:17 |
will take us to the Vimeo authorization
page.
| | 01:21 |
It's worth noting that I was previously
logged in with my account in Vimeo.
| | 01:26 |
That's why we see my account name here.
If you weren't logged in, you'll be
| | 01:29 |
prompted to log into Vimeo first.
And then, you'll come automatically to
| | 01:33 |
this page.
It's always worth reading the details here.
| | 01:37 |
Because you are giving access to an
outside program to access your Vimeo account.
| | 01:42 |
Go ahead and allow our authorization was
successful.
| | 01:46 |
And I'm going to need this code to upload
my video, so go ahead and copy the code so
| | 01:49 |
you dont have to type it in manualy.
Now, let's go back to Windows Movie Maker.
| | 01:55 |
Because I copied my code, I can now paste
it right in and hit next.
| | 02:02 |
Now we have a rather familiar interface.
Our account is already loaded and I can
| | 02:07 |
add a title and a description.
Always remember that you can edit these
| | 02:11 |
things in the vimeo interface.
So, if you don't feel like writing all of
| | 02:15 |
the information now you don't need to.
If you are ready go ahead and publish.
| | 02:22 |
As you can see, our upload is finished.
I now have the useful options to go
| | 02:27 |
directly to that page or to see the source
file that was created before the upload.
| | 02:33 |
I'm going to go to the page, but I expect
that it's going to take some time for my
| | 02:36 |
video to be converted.
Let's see.
| | 02:42 |
As I expected, we're in a queue waiting
about 45 minutes for the video to be converted.
| | 02:46 |
But technically, the process has worked.
So if we come back in 45 minutes, we
| | 02:50 |
should see our video.
Before we're done with Windows Movie
| | 02:53 |
Maker, I want to show you an alternate
method.
| | 02:56 |
Back here in Windows Movie Maker, if you
don't want to use the Automated vimeo
| | 03:00 |
Upload Wizard, you can also save the movie
manually and still take advantage of the
| | 03:04 |
vimeo preset.
So, I choose Vimeo here from my Vimeo
| | 03:09 |
settings, and now I can save the movie
wherever I want for uploading later.
| | 03:19 |
Let's click Open Folder so we can see the
video file that we would upload to Vimeo.
| | 03:24 |
There you see it.
And we've already covered how to upload
| | 03:27 |
from the Vimeo interface in chapter 3, the
movie called Uploading your First Video.
| | 03:33 |
Now you've got two methods to upload out
of Windows Movie Maker to Vimeo.
| | 03:39 |
Between these two methods, I'm sure you
can find one that suits your needs.
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| Uploading directly from a mobile device| 00:01 |
One of the fun things you can do with
Vimeo, is upload directly from a mobile
| | 00:05 |
device such as an iPhone or Android.
You do need to download the Vimeo app
| | 00:11 |
first, and install it.
I'm on my iPhone home page and I already
| | 00:15 |
installed the Vimeo app.
Everything I'm going to do in this movie
| | 00:21 |
is very similar to what you'd see on
Android.
| | 00:24 |
Go ahead and click the Vimeo app icon to
open the app.
| | 00:28 |
The first time you open this app, you'll
need to log in with your Vimeo email and password.
| | 00:42 |
Now we're logged into our Vimeo mobile
app.
| | 00:45 |
There's a lot of choices to watch videos
and similar things that we find on the
| | 00:49 |
Vimeo website.
The one I'm interested in is the button in
| | 00:53 |
the center that looks like a camera iris.
Go ahead and click that for your upload options.
| | 01:00 |
You can access the camera directly through
the Vimeo app, and shoot new video to upload.
| | 01:07 |
Or you could access your video library for
previously saved videos.
| | 01:11 |
We're going to do the latter.
So click Video Library.
| | 01:16 |
If this is the first time that you've done
this, you'll have to grant the app
| | 01:20 |
permission to access your Video Library,
so go ahead and tell it yes, you can
| | 01:24 |
access it.
Now we see, with access to our video
| | 01:29 |
library, all of the videos saved on our
phone that we can upload.
| | 01:34 |
I'll pick the one I want to upload.
And now I have an interface that's quite
| | 01:38 |
similar to what you would see uploading
online.
| | 01:42 |
It's required that you give the video a
title.
| | 01:48 |
You can immediately share on Facebook or
Twitter, but you can also upload to Vimeo
| | 01:53 |
first and then come back to do the share.
So I'm going to uncheck those.
| | 01:58 |
Similarly you can add a description here.
But I don't like to do a lot of typing on
| | 02:02 |
my mobile.
So I often upload to the site and then
| | 02:06 |
fill in the description there.
And our final choice that you might
| | 02:11 |
want to do on the mobile is switch from
public to private.
| | 02:15 |
If you don't want to make your video
public, or you plan to make it public
| | 02:18 |
later, switch that to private.
I'm going to leave it on public.
| | 02:22 |
So we go public immediately.
Once you have all the settings the way you
| | 02:27 |
like it, just click Upload.
The center button displays the progress
| | 02:32 |
until the upload is complete.
That's all there is to it.
| | 02:36 |
Now we can go to the Vimeo website and see
the results of our video.
| | 02:41 |
As we've become used to, it does take a
little time for videos to convert on Vimeo.
| | 02:47 |
If we come back in a few minutes a better
video will be here.
| | 02:51 |
Our video has been uploaded.
If I scroll down a bit and go to Settings,
| | 02:57 |
the basic metadata that I added is there
but I often like to go ahead and add my
| | 03:00 |
description and tags at this point.
You can also add credits if you like.
| | 03:10 |
Just like any other video you're free to
pick the thumbnail that suits the best.
| | 03:15 |
Make sure to Save your changes if you did
add metadata.
| | 03:17 |
That's all there is to mobile uploads.
I think it's a fun way to add video to
| | 03:24 |
your Vimeo site.
| | 03:25 |
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|
7. Sharing Vimeo VideosChanging video settings and privacy options| 00:00 |
Now that we're comfortable with different
ways to post video to Vimeo, I want to
| | 00:04 |
look at the things that you can adjust
once your video has been published.
| | 00:09 |
Most of this is available under what's
called, Settings.
| | 00:12 |
Let's take a look.
I'm on a video page.
| | 00:15 |
It's a video that I've created and I'm
logged in.
| | 00:19 |
All of those things need to be true for
what I'm about to show you.
| | 00:22 |
I'm going to scroll down so we get a
clearer look at the video.
| | 00:25 |
There's the video, and if I go down a
little further, you see that I have a tab
| | 00:28 |
for Settings.
Go ahead and click Settings.
| | 00:32 |
Here you see a number of familiar settings
and we can adjust them all here.
| | 00:37 |
So under basic we have a lot of meta data.
I've been uploading a lot of these farm to
| | 00:41 |
table videos but I haven't really adjusted
their titles to be completely accurate.
| | 00:46 |
So this one is Farm to Table Day One.
Fun day at Santa Barbara is fine, but I
| | 00:52 |
might add more details.
Of course, if I wanted something longer, I
| | 00:56 |
might draft it in a word processing
program, and then just paste it into this field.
| | 01:01 |
My tags look good, but tags are awfully
important.
| | 01:04 |
I can add credits if I want, and I can
also change my thumbnail.
| | 01:08 |
You'll notice that I can choose various
frames from the video itself.
| | 01:13 |
But I can also upload my own photo.
I can also click choose and have the
| | 01:18 |
option of other frames that are not being
selected so far.
| | 01:23 |
You can see how that works for custom
frames, but actually I'm going to cancel
| | 01:26 |
because the one I want is already
available automatically.
| | 01:30 |
It's that one there, so I'm going to leave
it the same.
| | 01:32 |
Here we have a reminder about the video
status.
| | 01:35 |
That's in our basic settings.
But actually we have more detail in the
| | 01:39 |
Privacy tab.
So I'm just going to save these changes,
| | 01:41 |
and then look at the next tab.
That tab is Privacy.
| | 01:47 |
And as you can see, our video is currently
available to anyone.
| | 01:50 |
My other choices are to make the video
completely private, you would have to be
| | 01:53 |
logged in as me to view it.
People that I follow, these are
| | 01:57 |
essentially my friends on Vimeo, specific
people who I choose and I can put in their
| | 02:02 |
Vimeo user names.
Or I can password protect.
| | 02:07 |
And I use this pretty frequently.
That means that when someone clicks on
| | 02:10 |
this video, either on the Vimeo site or
embedded, they'll get a field to fill in
| | 02:13 |
the password.
And they'll be able to watch it only if
| | 02:17 |
I've given them this password, but
actually I'm just going to leave this open
| | 02:20 |
for everyone.
I can control whether the video is embeddable.
| | 02:27 |
That is, can other people embed my video
on their site?
| | 02:31 |
I can control comments to be from any
user, no users, or people I follow.
| | 02:36 |
I can also allow or disallow the video to
be downloaded.
| | 02:40 |
I usually uncheck that because I prefer
people to watch my video on the site where
| | 02:44 |
it streams rather than download it and
keep it for themselves.
| | 02:48 |
There are exceptions to that.
For instance, if you're making stock
| | 02:51 |
footage available.
But if you want more control over where
| | 02:54 |
your video goes, it's best to uncheck
that.
| | 02:57 |
Finally, do you allow people to add your
video to their collections?
| | 03:00 |
That is, their channels, their groups, and
their albums.
| | 03:04 |
Usually, there's no real problem with
this, unless you don't want to be sharing
| | 03:07 |
your video.
In which case, you'd probably disable that
| | 03:10 |
as well as disable embedding.
Go ahead and save these changes.
| | 03:14 |
The next tab is called Add To.
Here you see that I have the option to add
| | 03:19 |
this video to any of my channels, groups
or albums.
| | 03:23 |
I haven't created an album yet, we'll do
that in a movie about sharing.
| | 03:28 |
Nor have a created my own channel.
I have joined a group but this isn't an
| | 03:32 |
appropriate video for Short Film, so I'm
not going to check this.
| | 03:37 |
Remember, with channels, groups, and
albums, you can also add videos from those
| | 03:40 |
pages, from the album page or the channel
page or the group page.
| | 03:45 |
This is coming from the other direction,
adding a video you've already posted to
| | 03:48 |
one of your channels, groups, or albums.
Under Video File, I have the opportunity
| | 03:53 |
to enhance this video and we're going to
do that in a different movie, replace this
| | 03:57 |
video, that means keep the same URL, same
video page but replace the video file.
| | 04:04 |
I find this very useful, because if you've
already sent out the link, the link will
| | 04:08 |
be unchanged.
If you already have statistics, or belong
| | 04:11 |
to groups, channels, albums, all of that
will remain the same.
| | 04:15 |
It allows you to update the video itself
but maintain the whole Vimeo video that is
| | 04:19 |
around it.
This allows you to maintain all of the
| | 04:24 |
aspects of your Vimeo video page, but in
fact, update the video itself.
| | 04:29 |
I've found that very, very useful.
Finally, we can delete this video.
| | 04:33 |
In the Advance tab, we can add a content
rating for maturity.
| | 04:37 |
This is clearly All Audiences.
I can add photos that will go on the page
| | 04:42 |
with the video just to liven the video up
a little bit.
| | 04:47 |
I can create a custom URL.
That means that my link doesn't have to be
| | 04:51 |
these numbers.
It in fact can be something appropriate to
| | 04:55 |
my video.
When I type in here, you'll see that it's
| | 04:58 |
only the end of the url, sometimes
referred to as a slug, that gets changed.
| | 05:03 |
So I could make my new url
vimeo.com/farmtotable.
| | 05:09 |
Finally, I have my creative commons
license.
| | 05:13 |
This is a designation about whether you're
willing to share your video under a
| | 05:17 |
creative commons license.
We're going to talk about creative commons
| | 05:21 |
licensing in a different movie.
Let's save these changes.
| | 05:24 |
We're almost done.
The final tab is Upgrade.
| | 05:27 |
But this is no different than the
invitations to upgrade to Vimeo Plus that
| | 05:30 |
we see throughout the site.
You simply have reminders of what's
| | 05:35 |
available in Vimeo Plus, and we've already
talked about that.
| | 05:38 |
So there you have Video Settings.
Just remember that once you upload the
| | 05:42 |
video, you're free to change all aspects
of it, including reuploading a new video
| | 05:46 |
and keeping all the other parameters the
same.
| | 05:50 |
Taken in full, the options offered here
are extremely useful.
| | 05:54 |
I adivse you to take your time and set
your settings with care.
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| Embedding Vimeo videos onto a web page| 00:00 |
We've talked a lot about Vimeo being a
great platform for sharing your videos.
| | 00:05 |
At the heart of that is embedding videos.
That is, taking a Vimeo video and making
| | 00:10 |
it available on your own website or blog.
Let's see how this works.
| | 00:15 |
I'm on a Vimeo Video page.
This video is one that I posted.
| | 00:19 |
But what I'm about to show you can be done
with any Vimeo video, as long as the
| | 00:22 |
creator has designated it as available for
embedding.
| | 00:26 |
Go ahead and click the Share button in the
top right corner of the video.
| | 00:31 |
You can see that we have various shared
options.
| | 00:34 |
Share with the link on a social network,
email or the one I want to look at, which
| | 00:38 |
is using embed code.
You can just copy this code right out of
| | 00:42 |
here and it will work fine, but I do
want to look at the options.
| | 00:46 |
Here you see various ways that you can
tweak what the embed will look like.
| | 00:51 |
You can change the color scheme of the
actual Vimeo player.
| | 00:56 |
You see how that looks?
And you could also designate a custom
| | 01:00 |
color that matches your website.
You can adjust the size of the player as well.
| | 01:05 |
So 500 pixels wide might be good for a
blog.
| | 01:08 |
But if you want it slightly bigger, to
take up the whole width of your web page.
| | 01:12 |
You could go up a little higher.
This goes to what appears in the top left
| | 01:16 |
of the video thumbnail.
So there's my portrait, my title, and my byline.
| | 01:23 |
Depending on how you want the video to
appear, you can remove some or all of that.
| | 01:27 |
I think that's a nice clean look.
These choices are fairly straightforward.
| | 01:30 |
You can set the video to autoplay.
I rarely like that.
| | 01:34 |
You can set the video to loop.
Again, I don't usually like that.
| | 01:37 |
But sometimes, for the right type of
video, you can decide to show a text link
| | 01:41 |
underneath the video.
That will appear as a small text link that
| | 01:45 |
has a link back to the video page on
Vimeo.
| | 01:49 |
You can also choose to show the short
description beneath the video, and
| | 01:51 |
remember, this comes from your metadata,
so if you want to change what's written
| | 01:54 |
there, you have to change it in settings,
which we've already looked at.
| | 01:59 |
You can see that the special stuff is not
previewed, but you see a list of
| | 02:01 |
everything that will be created here.
The size, the embedded video will include
| | 02:06 |
a text link.
So, I think I'm going to go ahead and
| | 02:09 |
eliminate the text link, but add the
description.
| | 02:12 |
And I'm not going to autoplay.
That's exactly what I want from my embed code.
| | 02:16 |
Each little decision I made changed this
embed code slightly, which is how my web
| | 02:20 |
page will understand how this will be
displayed.
| | 02:24 |
Now, I can just copy all of this embed
code and we're going to move over to a
| | 02:27 |
simple html page.
I have a very simple html page loaded up
| | 02:31 |
in Dreamweaver.
I purposely kept this simple so that the
| | 02:34 |
code would be easy to read.
But what I'm going to show you will work
| | 02:38 |
anywhere, even on a very complex web page
or also in a blog like Wordpress.
| | 02:43 |
You just need to use the html editor.
So in this case I'm using Dreamweaver as
| | 02:47 |
my html editor and when I paste that embed
code in.
| | 02:51 |
And refresh in Dreamweaver, I do see the
embed represented, but I can't play the
| | 02:55 |
video inside Dreamweaver.
I also see that my description was included.
| | 03:01 |
To display the actual video, I need to
save this new page and then display it in
| | 03:04 |
a browser.
So I'm going to save to the desktop, and
| | 03:08 |
then I'm going to preview in the browser.
There you see how a working video works
| | 03:16 |
embedded on a web page.
(MUSIC).
| | 03:22 |
This web page has not been uploaded yet.
But all I need to do is upload the index
| | 03:27 |
page to my website.
There's no need to upload a video file,
| | 03:31 |
because the video file remains hosted on
Vimeo.
| | 03:34 |
That's the nature of embedding.
I think you can see how embedding Vimeo
| | 03:38 |
videos is both straightforward and
powerful.
| | 03:41 |
Embedding on a simple web page like this,
is really just the beginning.
| | 03:44 |
It becomes a lot more fun as you start to
stylize your pages and really integrate
| | 03:48 |
the Vimeo player with the web designs that
you're doing.
| | 03:52 |
Have fun with this.
| | 03:53 |
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| Creating an album on Vimeo| 00:00 |
Albums are an organizational feature on
Vimeo that allow you to group videos to
| | 00:05 |
watch later or to share with others.
Let's see how it works.
| | 00:10 |
I'm on the Vimeo home page and I am logged
in.
| | 00:13 |
What I'm about to show you can work from
anywhere on the site, but you do need to
| | 00:16 |
be logged in.
Under Videos, I want to go to My Albums.
| | 00:21 |
Here we see we have no albums, and it's
time to create one.
| | 00:24 |
The thing to understand about albums is,
they're primarily organizational.
| | 00:28 |
You group some videos together, but then
generally you need other tools to
| | 00:32 |
effectively share them or do anything with
them.
| | 00:36 |
Think of albums a little like folders that
you organize videos in.
| | 00:39 |
Let's create a new one.
You see that we give it a Title.
| | 00:42 |
And my goal here is I have these three
farm to table videos and they're in a
| | 00:46 |
rough series.
Day one, day two, and day three so now I'm
| | 00:50 |
going to make an album to show the whole
Farm to Table experience.
| | 00:54 |
(SOUND).
Here you see that right away, I'm offered
| | 00:57 |
the chance to protect this with a
password.
| | 01:00 |
That would keep it much more private but
it's not really necessary for this
| | 01:04 |
particular album so we'll just leave it
out in the public.
| | 01:08 |
Next, by default I'm choosing for My
Uploads.
| | 01:12 |
And that is in fact what I want to do,
because all of these movies are in my uploads.
| | 01:16 |
However, I do have choices to select from
my likes, my groups and also my appearances.
| | 01:23 |
For instance if I were an actor and I was
being tagged as appearing in some of these videos.
| | 01:28 |
So we're not limited to creating albums
only out of our videos.
| | 01:32 |
We can combine our video with other
people's videos.
| | 01:34 |
But in order to get them in our album we
need to either like them or they need to
| | 01:38 |
be included in one of our groups or
channels.
| | 01:42 |
We're going to stick with My Uploads,
because everything I need is there.
| | 01:44 |
In fact I want to add all three of these
videos to My Album, so I'm just going to
| | 01:47 |
click each one of them.
You can see the plus turns to a minus, and
| | 01:51 |
I know it's been included.
If I had more videos, I'd be able to sort
| | 01:55 |
them not only by their date.
But alphabetically by their name, their
| | 01:58 |
number of plays, likes, comments, or their
duration.
| | 02:01 |
Any of these will basically show me the
same thing because I only have three videos.
| | 02:06 |
Okay, that's the basics, and you can
create your album, knowing that you can
| | 02:09 |
edit it later.
So here's what my album looks like.
| | 02:14 |
Its just a collection of these three
videos.
| | 02:17 |
I've got two important choices here.
I can share this album, enter an Email, or
| | 02:21 |
a Vimeo username and that person will get
a message with a link to this album.
| | 02:27 |
This is pretty important because there's
no real way for anyone to find your album
| | 02:30 |
on Vimeo without sharing it with them.
The link is open, but unlike Channels and
| | 02:36 |
Groups, Albums are not inherently promoted
anywhere on the site.
| | 02:40 |
Second, I have Album Settings, I have the
choice to add to any of the Metadata of
| | 02:44 |
the Album, or delete the Album entirely.
In the videos tab, I can add or remove
| | 02:50 |
videos, so add more there, the red x to
remove.
| | 02:53 |
And I can also play with the order of the
videos.
| | 02:56 |
So by default they'll be displayed in the
order that they were posted.
| | 03:01 |
But I can change to alphabetical, number
of plays, etcetera.
| | 03:04 |
And I can organize them manually.
You can see how I can drag them around.
| | 03:09 |
However, I actually had the order that I
wanted.
| | 03:11 |
Which was day one, followed by day two,
followed by day three.
| | 03:14 |
So, there's no real reason to mess with
this.
| | 03:17 |
I'm going to leave them oldest first
order, which is exactly the way that I
| | 03:20 |
posted them and the way that I wanted
them.
| | 03:23 |
No changes to save here.
If I flip over to Privacy, I have the
| | 03:27 |
choice, again, to Password protect this
album.
| | 03:30 |
If I check that, I need to enter the
password, but in fact I don't want that either.
| | 03:35 |
So there you see how to create an album,
and how to address that album, and finally
| | 03:38 |
what it's good for which is primarily
organizational.
| | 03:42 |
Once you've created the album you can
share it with your friends and you can
| | 03:45 |
also use it as a source for widgets to
present a portfolio off site.
| | 03:51 |
I'll show that in a different movie.
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| Creating a Vimeo channel| 00:00 |
We've already seen, from an audience
perspective, how channels are a great way
| | 00:04 |
to find and follow the videos that you
like.
| | 00:07 |
Now, let's look at creating a channel.
You can do this from anywhere on the site.
| | 00:11 |
But you do need to be logged in.
Just go up under videos, and go to my channels.
| | 00:15 |
We've been here before to subscribe to a
channel.
| | 00:18 |
But now I want to create a new channel.
Go ahead and click, create new channel.
| | 00:23 |
Here we can give our channel a name.
And my goal today is to make all three of
| | 00:26 |
my Farm to Table videos available in a
channel.
| | 00:31 |
If you've created an album before, this is
all going to seem similar.
| | 00:34 |
The main differences is that albums are
primarily organizational.
| | 00:38 |
You set them up for groupings of videos.
And then separately you share those groupings.
| | 00:43 |
Either through a playlist, on a widget, or
by sending a share email.
| | 00:47 |
Channels are inherently different in that
they are available to users to search
| | 00:51 |
based on the type of channel it is.
When you make an album, you're not
| | 00:55 |
necessarily promoting that album, but when
make a channel, you usually are.
| | 00:59 |
Like albums, you can make your channel
from you own videos, as well as your
| | 01:02 |
appearances, your likes, or other groups
or channels that you belong to.
| | 01:08 |
So you can use this to display your videos
or to curate videos you like throughout Vimeo.
| | 01:13 |
I'm going to stick with My Uploads, which
is consistent with my goals.
| | 01:16 |
Each one of these that I click, the plus
turns to a minus and we've now added it to
| | 01:20 |
our channel.
If you have more videos to work with, you
| | 01:24 |
can organize them alphabetically, by
plays, likes, comments, or duration.
| | 01:29 |
I'm going to go ahead and create my
channel.
| | 01:31 |
Here you see what the channel looks like.
And this is exactly how the Farm to Table
| | 01:34 |
channel will appear to other users on the
site.
| | 01:37 |
We do have some choices.
I can unfollow my own channel.
| | 01:41 |
I'm not going to do that.
I can share, that means I can get a link
| | 01:43 |
to the channel.
I can share through various social
| | 01:46 |
networks, and we're going to look at that
in a separate movie.
| | 01:49 |
Or I can generate an email or Vimeo user
name to send my channel to a user.
| | 01:55 |
In Settings we'll find various adjustments
that we can make to our channel.
| | 02:00 |
I can add tags which is going to make it
much easier for people to find my video.
| | 02:04 |
Remember to separate your tags with
commas.
| | 02:07 |
You can create a custom URL for your
channel and that's really pretty
| | 02:10 |
interesting, because it's nice to have a
informative URL instead of one with a
| | 02:13 |
bunch of numbers.
Of course you can't have two of the same URLs.
| | 02:19 |
So you have to be careful to find one that
hasn't been used before.
| | 02:22 |
Let's use that for our custom URL.
You can also choose up to five categories,
| | 02:27 |
and again, this will help people find your
channel.
| | 02:31 |
There's the five most appropriate.
When you filled in more information,
| | 02:35 |
always Save your changes.
In appearance we can make adjustments to
| | 02:39 |
how our channel looks.
The traditional is what's called a stream
| | 02:43 |
that feels a lot like the feed.
You can also have a grid and you can see
| | 02:46 |
how that looks in the preview, or a
gallery.
| | 02:50 |
I'm going to make some adjustments here
and then Save them so we can see their effects.
| | 02:55 |
You have a theme for your channel, which
is basically has to do with colors and graphics.
| | 02:59 |
I think the Vimeo Land theme might be sort
of cute for Farm to Table.
| | 03:03 |
And finally you can choose to show or hide
what's called the Shoutbox, and we'll take
| | 03:07 |
a look at what that looks like once we go
back to the channel itself.
| | 03:12 |
I can also customize a header image by
uploading a file that I've created.
| | 03:17 |
Let's Save the changes and take a look at
how they look.
| | 03:20 |
You can see that even in my Settings tab
everything has changed.
| | 03:24 |
I do want to go back to the channel itself
to see how that looks.
| | 03:27 |
Let's return to channel.
As you see I've changed the color scheme.
| | 03:32 |
I've changed to the Gallery view and the
Shoutbox is included.
| | 03:36 |
That's a quick place for people to post
little shout outs, little comments right there.
| | 03:42 |
And if I want to eliminate it, I can
simply uncheck that box.
| | 03:46 |
Let's go back into Settings and get the
rest of them.
| | 03:50 |
In Videos, I can continue to adjust what
videos are included by adding more videos.
| | 03:56 |
I can delete any videos.
I can change the order that my videos
| | 03:59 |
appear on the channel here.
You can see it defaults to Recently Added
| | 04:03 |
first and that means added to the channel.
I could also change for Newest Video or
| | 04:09 |
Oldest Video first.
And that's based on when things were
| | 04:13 |
uploaded to Vimeo.
In this case, it's actually the same, but
| | 04:16 |
in this project it's really the fact that
I uploaded them first that would make a difference.
| | 04:21 |
Yep, so that's oldest uploaded to Vimeo
first, which as I say is the same is the
| | 04:25 |
order I added them to the channel.
I can also do a manual order, which allows
| | 04:32 |
me to adjust these by hand.
And finally, I can order by the number of
| | 04:38 |
likes, comments, plays, or alphabetical.
So plenty of choices here, the one that
| | 04:43 |
suits me is oldest first, there we go.
No need to Save these changes, we didn't
| | 04:48 |
change anything.
We can look at the Membership tab.
| | 04:52 |
You can decide to allow anyone to view
your channel, only moderators, and we'll
| | 04:56 |
talk about that in a second, or moderators
and people that I choose.
| | 05:01 |
So that would be individual Vimeo users
that I add in addition to moderators.
| | 05:05 |
So here's where we would add those
moderators and a moderator is simply a
| | 05:09 |
group that'll have that access.
And then you can also adjust exactly what
| | 05:14 |
control they have.
Again, we don't need to Save any of these changes.
| | 05:18 |
There were no changes here.
One more tab and that's the Advanced tab.
| | 05:22 |
The only choices in Advanced are when you
get an email.
| | 05:25 |
Is it when some puts something in your
Shoutbox, or when someone follows the
| | 05:28 |
channel, or do not need to get either of
these.
| | 05:33 |
And then finally you have the option to
Delete the channel.
| | 05:35 |
And as the note says, that is permanent.
I'm going to return to the channel just to
| | 05:40 |
refresh what this looks like to users.
Based on our settings, this is how our
| | 05:44 |
channel would appear to users and it would
be searchable and findable based on all of
| | 05:47 |
the descriptors and all of the tags that
we put in there.
| | 05:53 |
I think you can see how channels are one
of the main ways that you share your
| | 05:57 |
videos with other users on the Vimeo site.
Remember, the channels are not just for
| | 06:02 |
your videos but also to curate and share
videos that you appreciate and other
| | 06:05 |
people have made.
| | 06:08 |
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| Using Vimeo with social networks| 00:00 |
One great thing about Vimeo, is the
ability to share your videos in many
| | 00:04 |
different ways.
That include integrating with many popular
| | 00:08 |
social networks.
I want to show you how this all works, and
| | 00:12 |
I'm going to use Facebook as my example
social network.
| | 00:16 |
But many of the techniques I do will work
in a similar way with other social
| | 00:19 |
networks, if not exactly the same.
I want to show you a few techniques here.
| | 00:24 |
I'm on the Vimeo homepage and I'm logged
in.
| | 00:26 |
The first technique you'll actually be
able to use on your own videos or other
| | 00:31 |
people's videos.
Let's go to a video and try it out.
| | 00:36 |
This is one of my videos, but this would
also work on someone else's video, and
| | 00:40 |
we've already explored a little bit under
the Share button.
| | 00:45 |
In particular, I want to look at the
social share possibilites, especially Facebook.
| | 00:51 |
So click the Facebook icon and, I'm
already signed in to Facebook on this computer.
| | 00:56 |
You can see my name there.
Vimeo is talking to Facebook just through
| | 01:01 |
the log ins, and if I make a comment I've
already got the video.
| | 01:08 |
I have the option to limit this post to
the public, my friends, or custom, which
| | 01:12 |
would be specific people or groups can see
it.
| | 01:16 |
This is exactly the same choices you have
on Facebook, itself, for any of your posts.
| | 01:22 |
If I'm ready, just click share.
Lets click over to facebook and see the
| | 01:26 |
results of what we've done.
If I refresh my page hopefully we'll see
| | 01:34 |
my video.
There we have an embedded vimeo video on
| | 01:38 |
our facebook page.
You see that my comment came through and
| | 01:43 |
if I click the icon the video will play
directly on my page.
| | 01:49 |
(MUSIC).
There you have it and this link will take
| | 01:55 |
you back to the page on Vimeo where the
video is.
| | 01:59 |
That works well if you're on Vimeo, but
what if you're already on Facebook and you
| | 02:04 |
just want to post a Vimeo video through
this interface.
| | 02:08 |
That works too, you just have to copy the
URL from the video page.
| | 02:13 |
So let me quickly go back There.
Here we are on our vimeo video page and I
| | 02:17 |
need to copy the URL.
I'm taking the URL here from the top bar
| | 02:22 |
on the browser.
I don't want the embed code in this case.
| | 02:26 |
I want the URL of the actual page.
I've copied that, and then I move back to
| | 02:31 |
Facebook, and I can paste the link as I
would any other link.
| | 02:36 |
In the case of a Vimeo link, Facebook
recognizes that this is a video and now I
| | 02:41 |
can remove the link and type a comment.
I'm going to post this and you'll get a
| | 02:48 |
very similar result as what we just saw.
It looks essentially the same and works
| | 02:55 |
essentially the same.
There's one more permutation of this whole
| | 03:00 |
thing, and it's a deeper integration
between Vimeo and Facebook.
| | 03:04 |
Let me switch back to Vimeo, and show you
how it works.
| | 03:08 |
So, the deepest integration of these two
web platforms can be found in My Settings.
| | 03:15 |
If you move over to the Apps menu You'll
find that there's a number of common
| | 03:19 |
networks that I can connect with.
Let's connect with facebook.
| | 03:25 |
Making this connection means installing
the vimeo app on your facebook account.
| | 03:31 |
So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
This deep integration allows Vimeo to do
| | 03:36 |
allot of automated things with your
Facebook account and you can micro manage
| | 03:40 |
which ones you want it to publish.
So Vimeo can publish to Facebook when I
| | 03:46 |
upload a new video When I like a new video
and so on.
| | 03:50 |
You can also micromanage these.
So, if I want to post all of my videos to
| | 03:55 |
Facebook when I upload them but nothing
else, that's what's going to happen now.
| | 04:01 |
I also have the option of automatically
adding all three of my public videos to
| | 04:05 |
Facebook immediately once I join the
accounts.
| | 04:09 |
I'm not going to do that.
In fact, for right now this is exactly the
| | 04:12 |
setup that I want.
Click Save.
| | 04:14 |
You can always get back to those settings
through the Settings button that has now
| | 04:19 |
replaced the Connect button.
You can also now use your Facebook account
| | 04:24 |
to cross-reference and see who you know on
Facebook, that also has a Vimeo account.
| | 04:30 |
Finally, I can break the connection here
with a quick disconnect.
| | 04:35 |
Just to review, I want to return to an
individual video, and remind you that
| | 04:39 |
there's a lot of other social network
connectivity that's available.
| | 04:50 |
When I go to share, I don't only have
Facebook.
| | 04:54 |
I have Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr,
Pinterest, and Reddit.
| | 05:00 |
If I have accounts in any of these places,
I can integrate in a very similar way to
| | 05:04 |
sharing videos on Facebook.
So there's a good look at social network
| | 05:10 |
integration with Vimeo.
You have a lot of choices here.
| | 05:14 |
and my only advice is to decide how much
control you want to give a different
| | 05:17 |
application to something like your
Facebook.
| | 05:21 |
For me, personally I usually like to post
every video individually, depending on
| | 05:26 |
when and if I want to.
I don't really like to give one network
| | 05:30 |
control over another.
because then I feel like I have less control.
| | 05:33 |
But if you're someone that spends a lot of
time on Vimeo.
| | 05:37 |
Doesn't really go to Facebook, and just
wants to push your videos out.
| | 05:40 |
An automated solution might be perfect for
you.
| | 05:42 |
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8. Doing More with VimeoExploring the Enhancer and the Music Store| 00:00 |
Vimeo's Enhancer tool, as well as their
built in music store, are two ways that
| | 00:03 |
you can augment your video once it's
already uploaded.
| | 00:08 |
I want to take a look at how both of these
work, and we access them through the same
| | 00:12 |
place, so we'll look at them together.
You can see that I'm on the Vimeo Home
| | 00:17 |
page and I am logged in.
You can access these tools from anywhere
| | 00:21 |
on the Vimeo site, but you do need to be
logged in.
| | 00:24 |
Up under the Create menu, go ahead and
click Enhancer.
| | 00:28 |
The Enhancer is all about changing the
look or the music of your video and we see
| | 00:32 |
a lot of example looks, down here.
You can see there is pages upon pages of
| | 00:38 |
them, many of them are free but some of
them will cost money.
| | 00:42 |
Let's pick something pretty funky to
change one of our videos, I'm going to add
| | 00:46 |
this look to our Enhancer.
So, now were in the Enhancer interface,
| | 00:50 |
but we haven't selected the video we're
going to enhance, let's use Farm to Table
| | 00:54 |
Day 3.
As you can see, I have certain choices in
| | 00:59 |
the enhancer even once I've chosen my
look.
| | 01:03 |
I don't have to cover the whole video with
(INAUDIBLE) look, I can affect just a
| | 01:07 |
portion or even a single shot.
I also can do 100% intensity, and that's
| | 01:13 |
the maximum of the look or I can dial it
back to sort of mix the look with the
| | 01:17 |
original and make it a little less severe.
In this case I'm going to bring it all the
| | 01:24 |
way up to a hundred just for fun.
I can preview what I've done by pressing
| | 01:27 |
play, but it's not going to be a full
quality preview, it's just going to give
| | 01:30 |
me an idea.
(MUSIC).
| | 01:46 |
So, there you can see what the look looks
like, and you can also see that it was
| | 01:49 |
inactive for the first few seconds until
we hit the beginning of the look.
| | 01:54 |
You can also move where the look is
positioned, and you can delete the look
| | 01:58 |
here with this x.
I'm going to do this because I like
| | 02:02 |
extreme example,s but this is really ugly
to me.
| | 02:06 |
Let's pick a better look (SOUND), this is
a little more mellow to my liking.
| | 02:18 |
Once you've settled on your look, how long
you're going to use it and the intensity,
| | 02:22 |
you commit by pushing Enhance.
Before I commit to this enhancement, I
| | 02:27 |
want to show you how to add a music track
to your video.
| | 02:31 |
You can click here for add music or also
go to the Music tab which is the only one
| | 02:35 |
available besides Looks.
They both take you to the same place.
| | 02:39 |
Here you see we have a very similar
interface, but our choices are for
| | 02:42 |
different music tracks.
Some of them were free, under the creative
| | 02:46 |
comments licence and some of them have a
cost.
| | 02:49 |
Inexpensive for personal use and sometimes
a more expensive price for small businesses.
| | 02:54 |
You can preview the tracks here and when
you have decided on one that you like, you
| | 02:58 |
can add it here.
Now you see, I can adjust how much music
| | 03:03 |
versus how much of the sound from my
video, how they mix together.
| | 03:09 |
And I can also fade in and fade out the
music, so it doesn't come in all at once.
| | 03:16 |
If I want, I can remove the music tract
entirely, and that's actually what I'm
| | 03:20 |
going to do.
I'm going to keep the enhancement, but I'm
| | 03:23 |
not going to commit to the music track for
the simple reason that I already have a
| | 03:26 |
music track that I like.
Now that I've finished the work I want to
| | 03:32 |
do in the enhancer and the music store.
I can go ahead and commit to my changes by
| | 03:36 |
clicking enhance, and I'm going to get one
important choice.
| | 03:41 |
You see that I can use my enhancement to
replace the video I was working on.
| | 03:45 |
The un-enhanced video will no longer exist
in that case, and the new video will have
| | 03:49 |
the same name but have the enhancement or
the safer choice, which is to save a new video.
| | 03:56 |
That's going to mean that my un-enhanced
video, remains on my Vimeo channel but I
| | 04:00 |
also have a new video, which I can give a
name to.
| | 04:04 |
The default name for my new video, is the
old name plus enhanced but I can change
| | 04:09 |
that, I can add a description, tags and
etcetera.
| | 04:14 |
Once I'm happy with that, if I've made any
changes, I can save the changes and return
| | 04:18 |
to the video.
Much like uploading your first video, it
| | 04:21 |
takes a little bit of time for the
enhancement.
| | 04:24 |
In this case, we're getting a nice
estimate of how long it takes.
| | 04:27 |
So, I think we can just wait this out or
fast-forward a little bit and see the
| | 04:30 |
final results.
The blue bar is finished and our video
| | 04:34 |
seems to be done, but it looks like we
don't have our thumbnail anymore.
| | 04:38 |
Let's go ahead and play the video, see
that it's working and then if we want,
| | 04:42 |
check on the thumbnail.
(MUSIC).
| | 04:52 |
You see that our enhanced look has been
applied, I'm curious to check on that
| | 04:56 |
thumbnail so, let's go to settings.
And I think I just want to switch back to
| | 05:00 |
this thumbnail that I prefer.
Save changes and now we should have
| | 05:05 |
exactly what we want.
As you see you can have some fun with
| | 05:08 |
enhancements and the music store to make
changes to your video, once it's already
| | 05:11 |
on Vimeo.
Many of these things if not all of them,
| | 05:15 |
are also available in your editing
program.
| | 05:18 |
So, it's up to you whether you do these
effects and enhancements before you
| | 05:22 |
upload, or whether you do them in the
Enhancer in the Vimeo interface.
| | 05:27 |
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| Creating video widgets| 00:00 |
I want to show you how to create what
Vimeo calls a Widget.
| | 00:04 |
You maybe familiar with widgets from other
platforms.
| | 00:07 |
They're generally little mini applications
that you can imbed in other places that do
| | 00:12 |
little jobs.
Vimeo Widgets are especially good for
| | 00:16 |
displaying more than one video and having
some control over how they display.
| | 00:21 |
Let me show you how it works.
I want to start under tools.
| | 00:24 |
And notice that I'm already logged in.
You do need to be logged in to create a
| | 00:28 |
widget, but you can do it from anywhere on
the site, not just the home page.
| | 00:32 |
Under tools I need to go to more tools,
which is where I'll find my widgets.
| | 00:37 |
There they are.
I can click on make some cool widgets and
| | 00:39 |
see my choices.
There's not that many choices.
| | 00:43 |
And the one I want to show you is Hubnut,
which displays a number of videos.
| | 00:47 |
There's also Montage that has another take
on displaying those videos.
| | 00:51 |
And then a Blog Badge, which is just for
your blog to have a Vimeo icon that links
| | 00:56 |
through to your page.
So these are our widget choices.
| | 01:00 |
I'm going to show you Hubnut, and you can
play with the other ones.
| | 01:05 |
You choose what videos to put in your
widget.
| | 01:09 |
You can choose from your uploaded videos.
Videos that you appear in and uploaded.
| | 01:13 |
Or you can pull from your channels,
groups, albums, and et cetera.
| | 01:17 |
That means you can create a Hubnut that
includes videos that don't actually belong
| | 01:21 |
to you.
As long as the creator of the video has
| | 01:24 |
allowed embedding.
If you recall, I created an album earlier,
| | 01:28 |
and we discussed that one reason to make
albums is to use them later in things like widgets.
| | 01:35 |
So let's go ahead and use my albums, and
then the only album I made was Farm to
| | 01:38 |
Table The Trip.
So that will mean that all three videos
| | 01:42 |
that I included in my album will now be in
my Hubnut.
| | 01:45 |
I don't need a slideshow to start off.
I do want to show the title of each video.
| | 01:49 |
I don't think I need the by-line as this
will be on my site.
| | 01:54 |
And then I can play with both the
highlight color, that's the text, and the
| | 01:57 |
background color.
One thing I like is if I make a white
| | 02:02 |
background, it's actually going to appear
that my, Hubnut is sort of, right on the
| | 02:05 |
background if I have a white page.
And of course you can do this with a black
| | 02:10 |
page, or any color that you match.
So now I have white background, black
| | 02:14 |
lettering, and you can see the way the
Hubnut works.
| | 02:18 |
Next and previous, take you to the
different videos.
| | 02:24 |
This link will take you to the YouTube
page, and the video will play right in the Hubnut.
| | 02:30 |
(MUSIC).
This is exactly how it will look on a
| | 02:37 |
final page, and you put it there by
copying this embed code and embedding it
| | 02:42 |
on an HTML page or in a blog exactly like
we did with a single embedded video earlier.
| | 02:49 |
So that's what widgets are in Vimeo.
We did a Hubnut example, but there's not
| | 02:53 |
too many other choices, and I'm sure you
can figure them all out.
| | 02:57 |
I encourage you to experiment with
widgets, because the result on your
| | 03:00 |
webpage can be really attractive.
| | 03:02 |
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| Using statistics| 00:00 |
Vimeo has some powerful tools in the area
of statistics that lets you see how often
| | 00:05 |
and how your videos are being viewed.
I'm here in a video page and I'm logged
| | 00:11 |
in, but I'm logged in as a friend of mine
who actually gets a lot more traffic on
| | 00:15 |
their site.
I want to use that log in to show you how
| | 00:19 |
statistics work.
This is a video that my friend uploaded
| | 00:23 |
and controls.
If I scroll down below the video, and this
| | 00:26 |
will be true of any video that you
uploaded when you're logged in, you see a
| | 00:30 |
statistics block.
You do have to make sure that the Stats
| | 00:35 |
tab is clicked.
You'll notice here that I have a graph and
| | 00:39 |
it's a weekly graph of the number of plays
in green, the number of likes in red, and
| | 00:43 |
the number of comments.
I can go back through previous weeks and
| | 00:48 |
see when all of my hits and loads
happened.
| | 00:52 |
I can also click here to see the full
statistics for this video.
| | 00:56 |
Now that I'm on full statistics, I have a
timeline choice.
| | 01:02 |
I can look at the last month, the last
year, the entire time the video has been available.
| | 01:11 |
Or I can set a custom range.
I can also look at how my video is being
| | 01:14 |
played when embedded.
Not at all.
| | 01:20 |
And geographic information about where, on
the Earth, it's being played from.
| | 01:24 |
Looks like mostly the United States.
I can expand this also to a longer time
| | 01:29 |
period to see if I'm getting any
international hits.
| | 01:33 |
So, now when I look at the full time the
video's been available, I actually see
| | 01:37 |
that I've gotten hits in Europe.
Just a few.
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China, Australia.
And you see when I roll over, I see the
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number of hits.
Still mostly in the United States.
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If you scroll down, you can see all of the
countries represented.
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And that list will change depending on
what category you're looking at.
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Now it's by date, individual days.
So, these are all statistics available to
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a basic user.
But if you're a plus user, there's
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something additional advanced statistics,
and those are found under Me > My States.
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These statistics are across my whole
channel.
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I stll have the option of week, month, or
year, so let's look at a little more data.
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Now I've got the year range.
I see all my plays, loads, likes, and comments.
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And if I scroll down, I have monthly
information as well as geographical information.
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I see which one of my individual videos
are being played, loaded, and liked the
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most, as well as comments, embeds, and
downloads.
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I can see the URLs that are bringing
traffic to my videos, the people who are
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liking my videos, and the people who are
commenting.
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This is actually still an overview because
I can click to load full stats here.
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Now, I'm looking at a similar graph that
we saw in individual video but I'm looking
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at my full channel.
Again, if I expand to a longer time
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period, I'll see more data.
There's a graph of my traffic over about
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four years.
These are all the months that I've been
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active on Vimeo listed out.
I can also go with geographic and this is
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my full detail geographic report across
all of my videos and I can cross-reference
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by time.
So, there you see statistics on Vimeo.
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Both the basic statistics that are limited
to a single video as well as advanced
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statistics that let you see stats across
your entire channel.
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If you're someone that likes numbers and
likes to know where their views are
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happening, I think you'll find stats very
interesting.
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Thank you for joining me for Vimeo
Essential Training.
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I hope you learned a lot about posting
your videos online with Vimeo.
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If you're looking for more to learn I
might suggest that you checkout
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Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro.
That is, of course, if you're interested
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in documentaries and that software.
I like documentaries a lot, so I like this
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training title.
Second, if you're just looking for
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inspiration to do creative things for
Vimeo, I really like the Creative
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Inspirations series on lynda.com.
These are not instructional videos per
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say, but they talk about wonderful
creative people and the work that they're doing.
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I think it's a great way to get inspired.
Thanks again for joining me, and I hope to
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see you next time.
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