- The concept is right-on, the videos flow within the photostream seamlessly, a part of photosets and not considered as a separate entity. This is just what the doctor ordered. Vacation photographs and videos, all in one place.
- Uploads are limited to 90 seconds and 150mb. Ugh, I knew this was coming. Word is this may change, and it will certainly need to rise over time, as cameras become more and more powerful. My question: Why 90 seconds? What if I miss that time limit by 5 seconds? What I would hate to do is start using Flickr for my video uploads, but then use Vimeo for the ones that don't meet that limit. This is silly. My suggestion: unlimited length (or 5 or 7 or 10 minutes, whatever) for pro users, and a tight limit for non-pro users to ensure that Flickr video does not become a YouTube clone.
- The design of the video player is gorgeous -- sleek and subtle -- but is clearly a rip-off of Vimeo. It's a great player, no doubt, but it is the same as Vimeo's, which I like.
- There is no logo overlay on the player, and bonus, no "related videos" appear at the end. It is nice to have a little more control, and Flickr delivers it.
- One more suggestion: somehow, please somehow come up with a way for your internal computers to recognize timestamp (read: exif) data for videos so I don't have to manually correct it for each video. Also, no auto-play on arrival.* I don't know anyone who actually appreciates this.
- What about quality? Well, for comparison purposes, here is the same video uploaded to Vimeo and Flickr...
Note: The embed code for Flickr is too long and needlessly complicated.
* It looks like they have already fixed this.
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