Today Motionbox is taking an important step forward as a video host. It's now supporting high definition footage uploaded by its premium users, who get to partake in unlimited file size or storage limitations as part of the $30 a year service. Regular users will also notice a quality bump, as the supported resolution has been increased to DVD quality to help meet the now standard VGA quality and beyond on most point and shoot cameras.
HD videos can be any one of the popular competing formats, including AVCHD which only recently began to meander into consumer level video editing software suites. Speaking of which, users will be able to edit their raw, uncut HD footage in MotionBox's Web based editing tools, which should make it easier, and far less expensive for people who want to get into doing simple edits to HD footage without needing to upgrade computer hardware.
he sample clips I've seen are beautiful and load instantly. If you've spent any time on Vimeo and its high definition gallery the experience is similar. Both also suffer from a technological shortcoming of not allowing embedded clips to be in HD, meaning you'll have to visit here if you want to see for yourself.
Motionbox is coming to the HD crowd a little late, but offering some interesting tandem services to entice prosumers who are looking less at broadcasting to the masses, and more to small groups of friends and family. Coming in a few weeks is a custom DVD service that will let you drop your clips onto a virtual DVD and have it printed and sent your way or to friends. With the right permissions users will also be able to take your clips and burn them onto a DVD if you make that option available. CEO Chris O'Brien also tells me the flipbooks, which were introduced last November have been enjoyed by users.
If you're a heavy HD user looking to share some HD footage with others on the cheap, Dailymotion and Vimeo serve up free hosting. There are caveats for each though. Dailymotion needs you to be a MotionMaker and broadcast your stuff to everyone, while Vimeo limits your weekly file uploads to 500MB which might be pushing it for some long, raw 1080p footage.
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