Does it have more than one audio track? According to the help center that might affect it: https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12426156099217-Troubleshoot-conversion-problems#h_01FQCPKAXGW9SS7RQMRFG71ABX

Are you uploading by dragging and dropping into the folder or selecting the folder from the upload page?

If you’re looking for views/ exposure / monetization obviously YouTube is better.

As a narrative DP I use Vimeo to host videos for my cinematography portfolio website primarily because I can customize the embedded player more and I think it looks better than YouTube embeds.

I also use it to upload and share private links of cinematography references, pre-visualization tests and so forth.

All my uses are focused on showing video to a limited group of specific people, I do not expect to get random views from it at all.

If you want views, free space, no file size limit, easy sharing: YouTube.

If you want customizable embedding, a shitty UI that changes every 3 months, barely any storage space, limits to the file size you can upload, limits on bandwidth usage(business profiles) and changing prices every 12 months: Vimeo.

Unfortunately Vimeo is pretty objectively terrible these days. Unless you have a specific need for their services I don't recommend it. For example if you have a website where you need control over your web player (no ads, no links, etc). But even then Vimeo is not great anymore. You'll get no one wandering Vimeo to come across your video. That is no longer part of what they do, hasn't been for a long time now.

If you bought an annual account try to get with customer service and push for a refund on the rest of the plan.

Vimeo went corporate many years ago and abandoned indie filmmakers. Recently they tried to win filmmakers back because b2b customers didn’t provide enough revenue. 

But the platform currently sucks for filmmakers. 

Crazy how Vimeo went from being the go-to for filmmakers to feeling almost invisible unless you’re selling services. This post says it all: 2 views vs 47K on YouTube. It’s not just about platform quality anymore—it’s where the audience actually is. Anyone else feel like Vimeo’s annual fees are better spent elsewhere these days?

I remember it that way.

You cannot compete with YouTube. There isn't even a reliable backup to YouTube if you want anything more than video hosting for url sending.

Tried and failed and then they pivoted to streaming and corporate embedding but they don't have the infrastructure to make it scale so the user gets locked into paying for bandwidth. Views. You pay for views. You get punished for pushing traffic to their platform. Traffic that that are trying to get.

Yes that’s why I will never use them again. They got popular from indie filmmakers then tried to pivot toward corporate customers because they thought they could increase prices. Now they crawling back. 

I think every year a few of the nominations for the Academy Awards were first noticed as staff picks on Vimeo.

Are you submitting your film to the festivals? Submit your Vimeo link.

Vimeo was a great platform, community, source of inspiration, now is worse than anything else online. As an example, the search bar is off for anybody in Europe. Meaning if I’m in Europe I can’t even see videos except for my owns.

It sucks it's not free and only for 14 days now

Try TikTok or Instagram Reels, ppl watch them a lot

Never heard of that one, but I'll try it thx!

yes

if you want no one to ever see it

Hey u/rikaro86
with plus its not possible to import as vimeo restricted your video access via API.

Pro and Plus are old plans. You can try switching to "standard" plan which is new and it has monthly subscription as well. If you are not seeing these new plans then you might need to connect with Vimeo support for this switch.

Don’t hold your breath. The only updates we’ve gotten in the past few years is a UI refresh no one asked for.

Are you still having trouble with this? I was also wondering if you uploaded the video as-is, or if you happened to use the "Vimeo Create" tool.

The latter has some opaque restrictions which can be frustrating to navigate. One of which is that videos that are longer than some duration (a minute or so?) can no longer be made public with a Basic account. You'd know if you used this tool if you were asked to select a template and music while uploading your video.

If you didn't use Vimeo Create for your video it might be worth making sure the video is rated as "Mature". It could be that the video was flagged for content, although I'd be surprised if they just prevented you from making a video public without some kind of messaging. But I'm not 100% sure on that.

Lastly, I would try downloading either the iOS or Android app and try to change the privacy setting from there. If the problem persists you can start to narrow down whether it's a bug with the service or something else.

I hope that helps!

Reporting I have the same problem as of recently. I don't want every video uploaded to be 'Public', just specific videos. With the volume we upload and variety of public vs. private, it is easier to manually change this after upload, but now that option is "greyed-out". I also am on a Premium account.

i had this problem but i figured out the solution. go to your vimeo account settings and in the Videos/Upload defaults section, change the “who can watch your videos?” drop-down to “Public”. Then click the blue Save button. Then go back to the settings for the specific video and now you should be able to make it public. Alternatively you could check the box that says “also apply to all existing videos” before clicking the blue Save button in the video upload settings. Hope that helps anyone else with this issue.

having the same problem

Reporting in that I have the same problem, it's just grayed out and I can't pick it.

Vertical videos are definitely supported! The video's page on Vimeo.com will contain black on either side (as part of the page design), but the video can be embedded on other websites without any black bars.

This help article also provides some useful info!

Upload a 4K file. Wait. Done.

Sounds like you just aren't waiting long enough for thr processing to finish or are viewing on a platform that doesn't allow 4K viewing.

What's the bitrate you are uploading with? If it is too low your material won't get higher resolutions. Also, some browsers won't show a 4k option if you don't have a 4k monitor with standard settings. So you might check another platform/browser to check your video.

Also, with vimeo you'd have to have a premium subscription with unlimited data to be able to upload larger 4k files. An hour of 4k can easily be 30gb of data. So it might be you exported a 4k video with a way too small bitrate, which would make the videos very blurry.

What are your export settings? You edited in iMovie right? Must be an export setting there got changed somewhere during editing.

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