Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:27 pm
Thanks for creating & posting this video, Rick!
For folks not familiar with Vimeo:
Remember to click the "HD" button in the lower right corner of the Vimeo player window to turn on its "HD" (higher quality) playback mode.
Also, I'm not certain, but to my eye this video appears to be currently set for 720p playback resolution via Vimeo's "HD" mode. So even when "HD" is turned on, it's possibly only 720p not 1080p. However, I may be mistaken about this particular video. Perhaps Rick can answer this.
Further, even if a video is available to play in full 1080p "HD" mode on Vimeo, the quality of the video file available from Vimeo is of course limited by the quality & data rate of the file the user uploaded to Vimeo. That might seem obvious and unnecessary to point out, but plenty of folks don't realize that it isn't practical to upload to Vimeo truly high-quality HD such as 1080p ProRes 422 HQ @ 220 megabits/sec., or uncompressed 2.5K RAW @ 5 times that data rate, etc.
A typical Vimeo "HD" video is encoded at only around 5 megabits/sec. That's why I always type Vimeo "HD" with the "HD" in quotes. At its best, it's pretty lo-fi HD. Cheers.