Why Vimeo?

For a number of years, BMM has been subscribing to Vimeo for video hosting. There are a number of reasons for this. It goes without saying that from time to time we should review whether this medium suits our needs moving into the future.

Our main marketing presence is via our Wix website. It provides a professional looking, functional and modern website for reaching our existing and potentially new members. However, to host videos on Wix would be at an additional cost. It is more practical to host videos on either Vimeo or Youtube. From there, a weblink is copied and pasted into Wix.

Why Vimeo and not Youtube? The understanding at the time was that Youtube often played back videos in low image resolution. As video makers, we could not afford for our videos to be shown in anything other than the resolution that it was edited in. Vimeo plays the movies back in high res. (This is the reason most videographers host their videos in Vimeo).

Secondly, Vimeo offers the opportunity to create Various showcases. I have created a few to highlight the best films of various years. See Showcase from 2024 and Showcase from 2025.

As movie makers, our members have the opportunity to post their own videos on their own video host of choice. Personally, I have my own Vimeo and my own Youtube accounts. From here, if members wish to show their movies on our BMM website, they simply email the weblink from where their video is hosted to me and it will show on our Wix website. We do encourage members to ask to post movies that they consider to be 'club movies' to the club Vimeo. Either Paul or I can do this.

What is a 'club video'? It is a video that drew on multiple club members to produce.

I often have people asking where to find our BMM movies in Vimeo. If you search for Brisbane Movie Makers in google, it will come up. Alternatively, click the links in this post.

Regards Glenn Bruce.

Treasurer 2026

BMM