Decided to try making a higher-quality encode of the "music video" I made and uploading it to Vimeo. Discovered Vimeo now has a "weekly limit" of 500MB upload unless you upgrade to a pay tier, which effectively means it is totally impossible to ever upload a video of larger than 500MB unless you pay. Even the "just okay" encode was 720 MB. (The high quality one, which I'm not sure I picked efficient settings for, is like 3GB.)
If you can cheat at this by buying 1 month of Vimeo Plus tier, uploading one single video, then canceling your subscription, then I would actually consider this (while obnoxious) a good use of $9, however, I of course have no guarantee that even if I paid $9 to let Vimeo upload my video, that they'd then host it at a quality noticeably better than YouTube did.
@mcc you'd think they could offer a lowcost tier for a combo of rare HQ uploads & more common LQ uploads, something like that for just a couple bucks a month might attract more casual users
@tsrono It's definitely weird that they punish uploading one 3GB video every seven years and reward uploading one 500GB video every week. OFC the point is to make it just inconvenient enough you upgrade
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