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Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
Clicking on most login and join links will now trigger a lightbox overlay where you can quickly login or join Vimeo and stay on your current page.
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Daily Email Update
You can now receive a daily email full of what's happening in your Vimeo world. Sign up is located in your notifications settings.
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Converting time during transcoding
Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
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Better referrer statistics
Now we record every page that videos get embeded on, check it out in the stats section to the right of any video page.
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Share on MySpace
Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
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Badge additions
You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
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New Hubnut Behavoir
From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
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Search Channels
Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' magnifying glass on any page, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
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Posting to Flickr
It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
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Expanded Tag Browsing
Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
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New Avatar Feature
Clicking any "avatar" aka user portrait will bring up a menu of actions you can take regarding that user. Use this menu to add contacts, subscribe to videos, and send messages to users you see on Vimeo
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Sorting Channels
Now you can sort channels in the Channels Directory. Just click on the headers like 'videos' or 'subscribers' and it will sort accordingly. We're one step closer to searching for Channels! Yay!
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Spam Filters
We've recently rolled out some great new spam filters that we think will help keep spammers off of Vimeo. Of course its impossible to stop ALL spammers, so if you ever see any send an email to Help@vimeo.com and we'll take care of it.
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Add Multiple Email Addresses
Now you can add multiple email addresses to your account and then sign in with any of them using the same password. Just set one as your main address, verify it after we send you an email, and you're all set.
Staff Blog / New Vimeo player
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New Vimeo player
Over the past couple months Patrick and I have been rewriting the Vimeo player from the ground up. Today we have released the new player to everyone! We have built a framework that will allow us to add many new features and customization options in the near future. It's going to be pretty awesome.
Here's a small highlight of our changes and enhancements:
There are a lot of design tweaks and all the outro screens have been completely redesigned. Thanks Jack and Sox!
We wrote the player in AS3. Simply put, everything should work inherently better and faster. Videos will play a little better and switching to fullscreen is less jarring.
HD embeds have a HD link back to the video on Vimeo.
We've made a lot of improvements to fading the timeline in and out. For example if you move your mouse outside the video, the timeline will hide itself automatically.
We've created a smarter video buffering system. This is still being tested and would love any feedback
Total runtime is now displayed when a video initially loads.
This is only the first installment to many new additions to the player. Once we launch Pro accounts, you'll have more than a handful of customization options.
Enjoy and please let us know if you have any problems.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to use Utube this time.
Please advise.
Like people give a shit that she wasn't able to embed vids.
Besides that I love the way it looks.
notice how staff replied immediately...
Good stuff
I will try again but the links to other videos that come up after the video is done playing did not work for me.
Nice work on the new player.
One thought: some time ago I could not see the volume control... thing was I did not recognise the little vertical lines icon for what it was. I felt sheepish afterwards, but later noticed at least one other person had the same difficulty.
I wonder if some other icon ( a slider? a knob? ) might be more intuitive for volume control in the player.
I'm not a huge fan of the logo on the timeline either. I absolutely understand the desire for branding but think it could cause confusion to some of "our" viewers. Coupled with that is the fact that by default there's the "XXXX from XXXX on Vimeo." embedded below it is a bit overkill and a bit annoying as a user. Let me add here the disclaimer that I still love Vimeo!!!
I'm not sure what exactly can be added or detracted using the custom embed, but with all due respect, that's kind of misleading. What I mean is that the average user that might embed a video is going to do so simply by hitting the embed button and copy/pasting and having the logo and having the tagline with the link under it as the default is kind of counting on that fact.
I was livid sometime ago when the Flash installer (and it may still do this) had Yahoo Toolbar as part of the installer and it had the "Yes" preclicked so that many users just clicking through would accidentally get that crap installed on their computer. As a content creator who was using flash it just really pissed me off that Adobe was essentially cashing in on my work by getting an extra payday from Yahoo. That said I must concede that in that instance, I had paid for my encoder, paid for Dreamweaver, and paid for the Dreamweaver plugin that allowed you to easily embed flash. After paying for all of that Macromedia stuff for them to then "doubledip" by targeting my traffic with essentially "tricking" people into installing the Yahoo toolbar, well, not cool imho.
As for this, again, I understand Vimeo's need to brand and get their name out there but the logo on the timeline and the link underneath (not to mention another if someone clicks on the "HD is off" button), are a bit gready and it would be much nicer on Vimeo's part to have one or the other methinks. Perhaps "Pro" will have less.
- Ray
As for the logo, it's about branding but it's also about the fact that in the old player there was no way to get back to like or leave a comment on an embedded video unless you waited until the video finished loading and then played the video all the way through. Now there's always a way get back to the page.
Finally, Pro will have options to turn everything off.
-Caleb
<3 Keep up the great work.
I had a quick play around, overall smooth and everything good.
I noticed 2 things, neither are such big deals:
1) When you exit full-screen, you have to click the player before you can see the controls again.
2) when you watch a video in full screen, after it ends, you push command 'w' to close the tab, it tries to close all open tabs (I'm in Safari 3.1.1 on a mac with OS X.5.2)
As I said, not such big deals.
Now re-read what Karen said before this... because it's so true!
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... wait a sec, uh, how do I delete my comment?
I did say "would like" not "demand"
about the player, i think it's a little more sleek, except it has way too many links to vimeo.
This happens on any videos (mine or others) here, and those that are embedded.
Using Mac OSX 10.4.11,
Safari 3.11
Firefox 2.0.0.14
Opera 9.27
Flock 1.1.2
Latest version of Flash.
Have tried clearing History, Cache, Resetting Browser, Restarting Computer.
Please advise :(
if so, how much?
reply pls
It just mangles the timeline UI as to be unusable. I also think it's a bit ugly how you now have those plain old fonts at the top with the video title and author. It used to look okay because the video text added some funk to it, but now it just looks boring and somewhat corperateish. You could solve this by using a more interesting font.. maybe the one the vimeo logo itself is rendered in!
Video is buffering more smoothly for me now I think, so yay on that!
Still, I'm saddened as a rather new user to see vimeo going down the path of paid accounts. Free user's shouldn't be second class citizens, and unless someone buys me a paid vimeo account, or it's really cheap (i.e. $5 a year), I won't be able to afford it. Artists are often starving and broke, and I believe it will alienate those of us who can't afford these things on top of our outrageously expensive internet bills. I know i'm already alienated by this whole thing. To put that in to marketing speak for you: The vimeo brand has lost a lot of trust for me personally, I feel worried and am making preparations to switch to self hosted quicktime when the time comes if it does turn out as bad as I expect (I'm expecting another flickr, which was a terrible experience, and left me grudgingly posting photo's there only so my friends would see them. I don't have any valuable friends on Vimeo though)
Being discriminated by wealth in a community site online is no fun at all. Poverty sucks. Now it sucks a little bit more.
=)
As far as I can tell, you won't be losing anything you have now if you stay a free user. Pro will give you more customization, more space, probably, but it won't take away anything from the amazing amount we already all have as free users. :] I might be wrong, but Vimeo is super transparent and is always working for the interests of its community, so don't worry!
In the end a friend of mine who works at Yahoo found a one year pro gift certificate and sent me a photo of it, and I got my pictures back. I guess as long as Vimeo never deletes or hides my video's from me demanding pro account fee's to get them back, there shouldn't be any problem. If paid accounts just give them more upload space and a few extra branding abilities (customizing embed player) that's just great. :)
one of the most annoying features of youtube
... Whether this be a benefit of a pro account or not, I think it should at least be an option.
Also... what do you guys think about actually fading to and from fullscreen? Would be nice eh? Is that possible or is it one of those built in 'flash' things that you can't change?
As an 'advanced' kind of option. Sometimes it is visually more appealing when embedding multiple videos on the same page, or in conjunction with simple images to not have the play buttons and the timelines already visible.
I only meant for it to be an optional extra for those who want to customise their player to that extent.
...and I hated it. I post video embeds on my art process blog and I always had to explicitly state in a caption that they were videos and you needed to click them. Still plenty of people perceived them as images and passed on by.
I'm very glad to see that the play button and timeline show by default until you play a video. This should help very much!
Anyway. It's not that important. I just thought it might be cool for some people.
Kindest and sincerest warm regards,
Lisa J. Kassner
Los Angeles CA
Now I'm a happy 8!!!
Don't give up, Lisa Kassner...
Keep up the good work, Vimeo--
Awesome site!
Ken