Good to know if/when sharing videos

Good news! Adobe Flash player is no longer required to play videos and embedded Deezer soundtracks on desktop computers and laptops. Thanks to Rob, HTML5 video tag is now used to run video and audio files.

Technical information of this video

Duration 32 sec
Image Height 1080
Image Width 1920
Major Brand MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14]
Video Frame Rate 30 frames per sec
Data Size 72 MB
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It is pretty easy to upload videos to your ipernity account. You can upload videos just like any other files. However, video files are really large, and therefore uploading to rather "slow" ipernity servers takes time and space! And of course you also need to have Standard or Plus subscription here at ipernity in order to upload such large files as videos usually are.

To upload this video took approximately 8 minutes on WiFi connection. For faster uploads and to decrease the use of storage space, it would be better to compress the videos somehow. For example there are some iPhone and Android apps for video compression available, if you are using smart phone. There are also all kinds of video compression software for computers.

You can also consider whether you really need to shoot in full HD 1920×1080 px quality in the first place. VGA 640x480 px can be enough for videos shared on web pages. For example on my older video taken with Panasonic DMC-TZ60 thanks to lower resolution the file size was only 8 MB for 15 second video. So, check out if you can change the settings for lower video resolution on your camera.

This test video was filmed on and uploaded from my smart phone. The video is so called full HD video, which of course is more or less the standard these days. But if one plans to start shooting videos on regular bases, I say ipernity really is not the best place to upload, store and share video files.

Therefore I personally recommend YouTube instead. I know many hates anything Google related, but if you do have Google account, then you can also use Youtube. If you do, then you can easily also share your videos here on ipernity blog articles. For that I have also published a quick tutorial:

➽ How to embed video onto blog article