Cliffs of Dover Video Thread V1.0 [Closed]

[Les]

Originally Posted by DoolittleRaider

Have you considered putting the video up at the Vimeo HD site?...

I was under the impression there isn't much if any difference in image quality between Vimeo and Youtube. There used to be, before Youtube went HD, but I dont think there is now. Vimeo also have a weekly limit, for non-paying members, of only one HD video upload per week (any others are only put up in SD), and an upload limit of 500MB per week. They also don't allow, according to their upload rules, 'gaming' video's. I'm not sure how thoroughly they enforce that rule, but in the past, when they first introduced it, they did pull a lot of video's down and make it known they weren't welcome. I could be wrong, but I just don't think it's really a viable or better alternative than Youtube unfortunately.

[DoolittleRaider]

Vimeo definitely allows "machinima" movies....that is, movies made using game images/captures/video, etc....the difference is that Machinima means movies with a Story or some sort, and dialogue, subtitles, voiceover narration, etc. "Gaming" videos are simply capturing gaming 'play' as the Game is played.

So, a video with just raw capture of a cockpit view in a Bf109 flying around (think First Person Shooter in a cockpit) would not be allowed.
However, a movie which tells the story of an historical battle or of an indivual fighter pilot's career or dogfights, etc, would be allowed. The latter would require some evidence of a screeenplay, editing, cinematography, post-processing perhaps with special FX, a sound track with perhaps original music, etc etc, etc.

Doesn't youtube still limit duration of video....to 10 or 15 minutes? Vimeo, I think, and also Blip-TV definitely will host movies of an hour and more. For example, this hour-long IL-2 movie at Blip-TV http://blip.tv/file/1217217

[Les]

Yeah, I think Youtube is fifteen minutes now, whereas Vimeo is whatever you can fit into 500MB if you're a non-paying member. I'm still not sure how strict they are with their definition of 'Machinima', but as you say, as long as you're adding something to the video and it's not just straight game-play you'd probably be alright, if they even noticed your video at all. Thanks for the Blip-TV suggestion, might look into that.