<p>When submitting a video sample to the internet, what would be the best site to use? Would you recommend youtube, vimeo or other? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Anyone out there?</p>
<p>I think vimeo is higher quality, more control over access. Only problem is daughter’s movies wouldn’t play well on our own really old slow personal computer. I doubt the video evaluators would have an issue.</p>
<p>The answer to that needs to take into account how public you want the video to be. On youtube anyone can access your film. That has pros and cons. You can tell anyone you want where to look, and you might get valuable feedback even from total strangers. On vimeo, your submission is password protected. Only those you authorize can see the film. That protects it from others, but that also means you won’t get feedback unless you ask for it. And, the ones you want to see it must log in and have the correct password. If the film is also being submitted to festivals, you cannot put it on a public site like youtube and still submit to most festivals. They require films that have not had a public showing, and youtube counts as “public”.<br>
If you cannot play the film well at home, ask someone you know who has a faster computer to try playing the video. My son who has great equipment has sometimes uploaded films to vimeo that looked terrible because of the compression rates- or aspect ratios- or a lot of factors I don’t fully understand-that he used. He then had to redo them at other settings to be sure they looked like he wanted them to look. It may not be your computer-but actually be the film itself. Double check on another computer before you submit.</p>
<p>Thank you for your replies!</p>