Since about 1 year, I have bought a Sony HDR-HC3 camcorder (HDV 1080i) recording on standard MiniDV.

For some months now, I have finally bought a license of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 (arrgggg). A very expensive tool, but so great…

Since some time now, I was searching for an online website and service for hosting and publishing HD videos. youTube, DailyMotion, vpod.tv are not supporting the HD standards (720 or 1080). It seems that some companies are now starting to launch this service.

vimeo is one of them. Quite a good service (free account with a weekly upload limit of 500MB). So I have created an account, setup quickly a short HD video about my last holidays in St Barth (3’45 in 720p). Have a look at the results, still not a 1080i (sooo huge!), but not bad. Be careful, the embedded version below is not in HD! For an HD version you should have a look there (vimeo format, streaming) or here (the original wmv encodded in H.264, 84 MB).

http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=384416&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=01AAEA
Saint Barth March 2007 from Didier BEck on Vimeo.