What is the Vimeo Video Library?

The Vimeo Video Library is a popular way for businesses and other large organisations to share their videos across teams and departments. It is different to other video platforms, boasting a host of extra features for easier management. Let’s take a detailed look at what the Vimeo Video Library is and how it could benefit your team.

What is the Vimeo video library?

On a basic level, the Vimeo Video Library is a video asset management structure. It has been specifically designed as a collaborative workspace to allow users to better share and organise their videos.

The Video Library is a great tool for sharing training videos, Zoom meeting recordings, company updates, live streams, and other essential information for users in video format. All videos in the Vimeo Video Library are automatically transcribed by Vimeo, so company members can easily search by keywords to find the content that is relevant to their needs.

You can organise your Vimeo Video Library videos by topic or department. What’s more, you can also limit access to videos to certain departments or teams, as well as to individual company members. Thanks to the hierarchical structure of admins, contributors and viewers, you have complete control over who has access to what content and information, as well as editing and commenting rights.

How is the Vimeo Video Library Different From YouTube?

The Vimeo Video Library is not just a video database, like YouTube, it is also a collaborative workspace. Your video workspace is only available to people that you have approved, so your company videos are kept private.

You can set different permissions for different members of your team, as well as restricting access to certain videos, such as Zoom meeting recordings, that may contain sensitive information.

Compared to YouTube, the Vimeo Video Library provides enhanced sharing and organisational functionalities, as well as allowing greater control over who sees what. It also allows for more brand customisation and enhanced collaboration across teams and departments.

Is the Vimeo video library free?

Unlike the standard Vimeo library gallery, the Vimeo Video Library requires an enterprise account. Vimeo enterprise accounts are tailored to suit the needs of larger companies, allowing their teams to better engage with customers through video, as well as facilitating sharing and communication between team members.

Vimeo provides personalised enterprise plans. The only way to find out how much it costs to set up an enterprise account, with the Vimeo Video Library feature included, is to contact their sales support team directly. Pricing will depend upon your brand’s size and needs.

How do i share my Vimeo video library?

Sharing your Vimeo Video Library gallery is quick and easy, even if you have a lot of users to manage. You can add new users to your team as either admins, contributors, or viewers.

- Admins have full control of the video gallery. They can add new members, delete content on the team account, and share their accessible folders with everyone in the company. - Contributors can view and comment on videos that have been shared with them, as well as being able to upload videos to their private spaces. They can also edit videos and upload them to their shared team folders. - Viewers can only view and comment on videos that have been shared with them.

The easiest way is to add groups of company members, rather than inviting each user individually. To do so, you will need to have an SSO enabled enterprise account on the Vimeo website.

Once your invited members click on the URL and log in, they will be automatically directed to your organisation’s home page video gallery. This page will update to display all of the folders that the user has access to.

If you have not yet added your company’s videos to your galleries, as owner or an admin, you will see the empty home page of your organisation’s Video Library. Options to create folders and upload videos, as well as pages to invite new team members will be displayed.

How to access Vimeo video library videos

Once you have updated your library, your team members will see the videos they have access to presented in a gallery format on the home page after log in. Viewers can click on the arrows to navigate through the videos in the galleries. To see all videos and pages that have been added for them, they can click on Library on the left-hand panel.

If the videos are organised in folders, viewers will be able to click into subfolders or on the video thumbnails directly. Click on the icon in the top right corner of the page to toggle between grid or list view. Open a video with a click on the thumbnail image.

How to search your Vimeo video library videos

As Vimeo automatically transcribes all paid account videos, it is easy to search for a specific term that features in a video that you have access to. The home page and folder pages all include a search bar that you can use.

While this is a practical feature that allows you to easily search for specific terms in your videos, the problem is that without a professional transcription, your video may not be accurately transcribed. This could create real problems, especially if any of your team members have detectable accents, hearing impairments, or are unfamiliar with the specific vocabulary that is being used.

We recommend using a third party transcription service, such as Happy Scribe, to ensure that your transcripts and closed video captions for your videos are accurately transcribed.

Vimeo video library

The Vimeo Video Library is an excellent way to share videos across a whole organisation. Whether you want to share live streams, Zoom meetings, or training videos, thanks to the Vimeo Video Library for enterprise accounts you can securely share all the information that you need with every member of your team.