YouTube goes HD

It looks like YouTube has finally started supporting HD content.  I have been using Vimeo HD for a while now, but in order to get unlimited HD uploads I would have to pay $60.  If YouTube offers a better deal than that for free, I might just have to switch over to youtube (which is too bad because I thinkVimeo is a great site).  For now, there is no ‘HD’ button I can see on the actual YouTube pages, so to watch a clip in HD you have to append ‘&fmt=22′ at the end of the URL (Edit: They have added a “Watch in HD” button now).  Here is an example of 720p HD vs SD from youtube (click play on both at the same time to see the difference):

720p HD (click here for full resolution):

Standard Quality:

Chair on Vimeo

I just signed up for Vimeo. It is a great video hosting site that has true HD video content. It provides 500mb a week for free. The only catch is that the videos you upload have to be original content made by you. My first upload is “Chair” which is a stop-motion movie I made in college. Below is a standard quality version of the video.  For the HD Version click here

I took a picture of this chair every 25 feet or so for about 4 miles. I had to put tape on the camera’s viewfinder in order to line the chair up for each picture (for continuity). I started at my apartment in north Baltimore and finished down in the Inner Harbor. It was edited in Adobe Premier Pro and the background music is “Spectrum” from Boards of Canada. The camera I used was a Sony DSC-W7

from www.vimeo.com posted with vodpod