Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

Icer Air from Jen L on Vimeo.

I had been using viddler for video hosting for a long time because it had good privacy controls while youtube had none. When I chose viddler, it allowed the storage of source video files, but I was waiting for the day when they could no longer support it. Two days ago, I got an email from viddler about their new source file storage policy which included the following:

The Terms of Use are changing to state that personal level accounts’ original source file will be stored for 30 days from the date it was uploaded. Of course, the converted video file will be available as long as your account is active. And you will still be able to download the converted file.

This email is to make you aware of the change in policy – and to give you 30 days to download any original source files you may need. Original source files uploaded before this email (March 29, 2010) will be available until May 1, 2010. Original source files uploaded from today (March 29, 2010) on will be available for 30 days.

This change seems to make sense especially with HD video on the rise. While 30 days is still generous on viddler’s part, I wanted to give Vimeo a try (they only retain the source file for a week). A filmmaker friend of mine mentioned that Vimeo is kind of like what Flickr is for photographers; I still like the privacy features of Vimeo, but it doesn’t have a feature like Flickr’s guest pass links or viddler’s secret URLs that can be passed on to others easily, but they do have a password feature which might be sufficient.

I considered youtube, but the community there is not what I’m looking for and I like how vimeo is a community of creative people, plus their content restrictions in their Community Guidelines support their personal creativity focus:

No gameplay videos, “fan vids”, sexually explicit videos, or music videos, movies, TV, and trailers that you found on the web.

• [...]
• You may post videos of yourself on TV, as long as you have the permission to upload and the video is limited to your involvement in the program only.
• No videos that are just compilations of scenes from TV or movies.
• No captures of video games or gameplay, regardless if it is edited or not. Machinima with a story is allowed, provided the story is more than “guys doing exactly what the game was made for (eg skateboarding or shooting people)”. Machinima videos must be properly labeled as such in the video description to avoid accidental deletion.
• Video game developers may post videos of their work provided they cite their involvement in the description of the video (maps and mods to commercial games don’t count). Here we are talking about development videos, not commercial trailers.

Above is a video I edited back in 2007 of Icer Air. It’s in standard quality, but it was a good way to get used to the interface of the tools: GarageBand and Final Cut (Express). I really wish I had an HD camera at the time.

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