Take Video Streaming to a higher level at a lower price
March 05, 2019
Take Video Streaming to a higher level at a lower price
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Vimeo Pro
I use Vimeo Pro as cloud storage for 1000s of online course videos as well as for webinar recordings. We also use it to track viewer analytics throughout the semester and share course specific portfolios with new instructors and teaching assistants.
- The portfolio/collection template allows us to build out setlists very quickly but also gives us flexibility on the overall and look and feel. If you know even basic CSS you can do quite a bit with it.
- Domain control. My clients are often particular about where certain videos can be embedded or shared. Vimeo allow me to specify exactly which sites the content can be embedded in.
- Vimeo allows us to attach custom cover slides to every video, something that was a pain point with some of the other services we looked at.
- Customer Service has always been very strong, especially when we needed to pull customized reports or massive collections of links
- You can upload a replacement file to an existing asset with out worrying about the url or embed code changing.
- It needs to support more users under a single account. I often end up having to share login information with other team members or clients which is not ideal in terms of security. The 'PRO' account only allows for 3 users which no even remotely close to what I typically need.
- The search feature isn't great, it allows for tagging and descriptions but the titles seem to be the only thing that counts when it returns results.
- It doesn't have an embeddable playlist feature like YouTube.
- There are no real inline interactive elements available. would love to be able to do in-video polls or quizzes.
- It allows clients to serve a massive amount of video content within an LMS without eating up disk space or sacrificing bandwidth.
- The overall cost is very low compared to other tools and there is no 'pay per view' style unstable pricing.
- The tool has allowed students in other countries to access content faster.
- NEGATIVE - the upload limits per week, especially on the basic/pro accounts are too restrictive.
In higher ed we have a couple of options that integrate directly with our LMS (Blackboard/Canvas) that are comparable. Kaltura is outstanding but it's very expensive whereas I've found Viddler(and YouTube) to be much more simplistic. I've worked with other tools that want to charge based on the number of views or how much bandwidth you demand but I have always found that to be erratic. For budgeting purposes, I prefer to you just a sent annual fee like Vimeo.