I missed this back in August: the excellent Art of the Title site is on hiatus due to lack of funds (in part due to a skyrocketing Vimeo bill). Join me in supporting them? And can anyone at Vimeo help w/ their video hosting?
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I don't understand, why don't they just upload their videos to Youtube and come back online? Why commit to raising $4k per year just to stay on Vimeo, when Youtube is free?
Many years ago I had been using Vimeo for personal videos, but their player sucks so bad, it couldn't play a 30 second video without stuttering, so I re-uploaded everything to Youtube and I didn't have to pay and there's no stuttering issues. Being charged for them to host the videos when every single video stuttered was just adding insult to injury. These days, if I see a video is hosted on Vimeo, I don't even bother. The user experience is just so bad.
I don't know what their rationale is, but YouTube makes it very difficult to post copyrighted material, even if it's fair use — stuff gets taken down all the time. And there would be ads on it. Different creators have different needs...YT is not a one-size-fits-all thing.
An explanation from the owner of The Art of the Title:
"YouTube has a strong copyright algorithm and often flags and removes content owned by studios. Showing title sequences often means showing clips of movies — sometimes they’re quite long"
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