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The 2012 Vimeo Awards will carry four new categories including advertising and fashionVimeo opened submissions this week for their second Vimeo Festival + Awards. Prizes include grants of $5,000 to all of the category winners as well as $25,000 for the Grand Prize winner.
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The new VIMEO Pro gives you 50GB to play withIt was never going to be long before video sharing site VIMEO looked to involve another market segment in their creative sharing philosophy. VIMEO had set itself up as an antidote to YouTube, even if it had been its predecessor, with its insistence on creatives sharing their video productions all designed in playschool colours and encouraging positive comments (negatives comments are usually binned and their writers sometimes banned).
Vimeo, the online video sharing site, now allows uploads of upto 5 GB per file, enough for a HD movieOnline video sharing site Vimeo has increased the size of a single file that a Vimeo Plus member can upload from 2GB to 5GB. On average, 5GB is enough space for roughly 2.5 hours of HD video. Creators can now share their feature films and full-length documentaries.
vimeo | Share Article Vimeo just released the top 5 finalists (chosen by the judges) per category (9 categories) for the Vimeo Awards. Seven finalists were from Great Britain, including:
With only two weeks remaining to enter, The Vimeo Festival + Awards, www.vimeoawards.com, adds four new names to its already impressive roster of judges, including:
Neville Brody –Internationally-renowned designer, typographer, art director and brand strategist, Brody’s more than 30 years of experience spans titles for Heat, The Insider, and Public Enemies to art direction at popular magazine The Face, plus redesign of The Times newspaper and the BBC website. He will be applying his expertise to judge submissions within the Experimental Category.
Ricky Van Veen – Head of production company Notional, co-founder of CollegeHumor, Van Veen will be leveraging his expertise in developing and producing online content viewed by millions to judge the Original Series category.
Shane Walter – Co-founder and creative director of onedotzero, a global-reaching contemporary digital art, film and design organization, Walter has commissioned and produced several award winning short films. Named in the 2010 Wired 100 list of individuals shaping the digital world, he has consulted and produced multi-disciplinary projects with well-known brands from Nike and MTV to U2. He will be lending his production expertise to the Motion Graphics category.
Ze Frank – Pushing the envelope of online entertainment since his viral video “How to Dance Properly” hit in 2001, and his recent daily video blog called “The Show,” Ze Frank will be lending his creative flair to help judge Original Series submissions.
As the July 31 submission deadline looms, the panel of high-profile experts and luminaries is gearing up to judge, honor and award the best creative and original online videos and the masterminds behind them.
Entrants can submit any original work as long as it has premiered online between June 3, 2008 and July 30, 2010 or has never been premiered anywhere in one of the following categories: Narrative; Documentary; Animation; Experimental; Music Video; Motion Graphics; Remix; Captured; Original Series; and the best overall from all categories, the Vimeo Award. The winner of the Vimeo Award receives a $25,000 grant to produce new work.
The submission fee is $20 U.S. ($5 for Vimeo Plus members). A full list of judges, submission criteria and entry forms are available at www.vimeoawards.com.
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Don't miss the deadline for the Vimeo awards. Get your video in by the end of July to win $25,000What started out as an idea to show off a film maker’s content has turned in to a worldwide centre for showing video content. In December last year Vimeo’s stats showed about 1.5 million registered users with about 14 million monthly unique visitors, pretty good you might say. However by the end of May this year they were up to 3.7 million registered users and just under 30 million monthly unique visitors. So not only do they have a healthy sign up rate but also ten times that many are visiting to take in the content.