Video site hosting?

[Snurk71]

I did a search, and it seems like the question of what site people use to host videos (when you want to move way from youtube or google) comes up about once a year or so. So here it is again...

I know Smugmug has video for the power and pro users. Does anyone use Smugmug for video hosting?

Thanks

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I use Smugmug (pro account) for video hosting. It works well. Vimeo seems to be the most popular for people on the video sites I frequent. Something called Animoto is popular as well, but I'm not sure if you can host normal videos on it.

 

[bostran1]

I use my MobileMe account and make web galleries for each of my movies.

 

[edolyne]

+1 for mark

Smugmug is AWESOME for video hosting, though they only offer it on their pro accounts, which can run $150 a year prior to any discounts.

Animoto is great for creating slideshows of your images, they also have a feature now where you can add in short video clips into the slideshow. I don't believe that they offer regular video hosting.

So if your looking for something that is inexpensive, take a look at Vimeo, if money is no object go SmugMug, they are awesome.

 

[Snurk71]

Thanks for the comments. Smugmug does offer SD video on the middle tier account, which is only $60 vs. the Pro $150. The Pro offers HD, but I don't have an HD camcorder yet.

I've looked at Smugmug over time - as I'd prefer to have photo and video at one site instead of splitting them over 2 sites (I've been on Imageevent for photos for years - only $25/year, but has a 3,000 image limit). I'll probably do Smugmug - $60 isn't that much.

I've already loaded a couple of test videos on Smugmug - it seems to work pretty well. I uploaded two different versions of the same video - one in H264 and I think the other I think was MPG or DVD setting??? (both files converted in Premiere Elements). The H264 file ended up a relatively small file to upload and looks better than the large mpg file I uploaded. I guess starting in the final SM format paid off.

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I upgraded my Smugmug account to a pro account specifically so that I could host HD video there. I cover the extra cost by selling photos. I do a few studio shoots in my garage for the neighbors each year and get some sales off of those. I also sell a bunch of Disney pictures to people on the scrapbooker forum. I only get 8 cents per shot, so I'm not making a killing, but it works out to be enough to pay for my site each year. I'm a softy, though. In addition to making the pictures available for sale, I also allow people to do full res downloads for free.

 

[Groucho]

FWIW, YouTube hosts full HD (1920x1080) videos now, they call it HQ37 format. (The recent official Muppet videos have all been 1920x1080.) I don't know if there is an additional charge though as I've never uploaded a video. 1280x720 is getting to be pretty common there too.