Vimeo are today launching a Pro account. It is $199 and designed for businesses and pros.
Enabling small businesses to compete with larger companies, Vimeo PRO offers robust product features including exceptional video quality, customizable Portfolio websites, extensive video player customization, Video Review Pages, advanced statistics, social media sharing and broad privacy settings.
Production companies will be able to create many separate portfolios and share rough cuts with clients.
Customers can upload up to a 5GB file at a time with no time limits and Vimeo will not run any advertising over their videos.
Already Plus owners get a very good deal for $59.95 annually. The lack of advertising on my videos is well worth the subscription fee over YouTube although currently the performance of Vimeo’s streaming speed is slower than YouTube.
It will be interesting to see what the Pro account gives DSLR filmmakers and whether it is worth switching!
More details later today when it officially launches at 1pm EST.
You can see the full press release at DPReview.com here
UPDATE. Vimeo Pro has now launched. Get it here or watch the introduction below:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/26875750[/vimeo]Panasonic GH3 will get 1080/60p and 3D video
According to 43rumors the GH3 will be a AVCHD 2.0 video flagship product from Panasonic, driving the adoption of the new standard. The old spec was rather outdated and it was very strange to see the companies who invented AVCHD dodge the spec to gives us 1080/60p on cameras like the Panasonic TM900 and Sony HX9v.
With the GH3 that will change, because the camera is going AVCHD 2.0. That means we can expect 1080/60p and 3D video (possibly with a video optimised version of the existing 3D Lumix lens).
There’s no 25p in the AVCHD spec either and unfortunately that hasn’t changed with AVCHD 2.0. This is because AVCHD is designed as a video delivery format not an acquisition format. It’s also still stuck at 8bit 4-2-0 colour wise, which is a shame because the sensors on DSLRs are already capable of much more. Even a small step to 10bit 4-2-2 would allow for richer colour and smoother gradients, especially with subtly different tones spread over a large area of the frame like a painted wall or blue sky.
Bitrate is capped at 28Mbit but this isn’t a problem, it depends on how wisely it’s used by the encoder.
