Vidcaster has recently launched a free version of its video publishing service, allowing anyone to create a video-based web site presence where to host, outside of YouTube or Vimeo all of the video clips one has (both those already published as well as those you have never posted yet).
Vidcaster makes it easy for you to import all of the video clips that are stored on your YouTube account and to help you build a custom, personalized video web site around them. You as a user can also import video clips from Vimeo or YouTube as long as you state that you have full copyright control over such material.
Among the cool features I have noticed:
- small set of ready-made video web site templates which give a pro-look to your site immediately (not many, but the basic ones are good)
- the ability to create your own "category" or "theme" channels on your own video web site.
- the option to have your own domain name matched to this new video web site for only $20/year.
- an automatic podcasting channel, auto-generated for you, and a also a full RSS feed.
What's missing or not working:
- Category pages work only partially. Once you have added more than 10 video clips to a category, and you go that category page (e.g.: http://robingood.vidcaster.com/curation/ ) there is no way to see the other video clips in that category. By clicking "more" at the end of the page you are taken to the wrong place.
- Video content cannot be easily organized or sorted.
- Podcast channel not working.
- Adding video clips to a "category" channel is a very long and tedious process.
- Scrolling pages of your existing video clips without being able to sort or search through them makes the task very difficult for publishers with large video libraries.
Overall, I find Vidcaster a very promising, well though-out and useful video publishing service. Unfortunately the free version is not quite ready for prime-time and I would wait for Vidcaster to fix these issues before spending any serious amount of time on it.
Find out more about it: http://vidcaster.com
Plans and pricing: http://www.vidcaster.com/plans-and-pricing/
Key features: http://www.vidcaster.com/features/
My test video site: http://robingood.vidcaster.com/
My test video category on "Curation": http://robingood.vidcaster.com/curation/
(Curated and reviewed by Robin Good)
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