We recommend uploading your video directly to FilmFreeway. FilmFreeway accepts full quality HD videos up to 20 GB. This way, when your submission is accepted to a festival, the festival may send you a download request, which you may then authorize or deny, to download your full quality video for screening at the festival. Don’t worry, a festival can never download your video unless you expressly authorize their request.
Alternatively, if your film is already on Vimeo or YouTube you can simply link your video to your FilmFreeway project. Festivals you submit to will be able to watch your Vimeo video in FilmFreeway. However, if a festival needs to download your video for screening at the festival, you will need to enable downloading within Vimeo and communicate this information to the festival.
Important: If you are linking your video via Vimeo, make sure to update your Vimeo settings to allow embedding. This will ensure that your video player appears directly within the FilmFreeway interface while still remaining password protected.
To enable embedding:
- Go to your video in your Vimeo account.
- Click Share > Embed > Embed Privacy.
- Under Where Can This Video be Embedded?, select Anywhere.
You’ll know the settings have been updated correctly when the “Sorry” notice disappears from the video player, and the play button is clickable.
