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Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 7:24 am
by feder1
We sometimes wish to send a short video (taken with a mobile phone) to friends’ email addresses, that they can view straight away on the email.

Short means 10 seconds or less.

We cannot ask people to do anything other than click.

Any ideas please?

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 7:36 am
by swill453
If you put it somewhere in the cloud, you should be able to send a link that people can watch by clicking.

Depending on what you've got to hand, suggestions might be:

- Tweet it and send a link to the tweet
- Post and Facebook and send a link
- Same for Youtube
- Put it on Google drive, make it shareable and send a link
- Same for Dropbox, Onedrive etc.

Probably other ways too.

Scott.

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 8:03 am
by swill453
Snorvey wrote:You could WhatsApp it to them (Not to their email address though)

I thought about that, but it needs the recipient to have a mobile phone, which may not be true.

Scott.

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 8:51 am
by mc2fool
Upload it to Imgur and send folks the link to it. Free, no signup necessary (either by you or the recipients), videos up to 60 seconds / 200MB.

https://imgur.com/upload

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 8:56 am
by servodude
mc2fool wrote:Upload it to Imgur and send folks the link to it. Free, no signup necessary (either by you or the recipients), videos up to 60 seconds / 200MB.

https://imgur.com/upload


Does Imgur make uploads public by default?

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 9:14 am
by mc2fool
servodude wrote:
mc2fool wrote:Upload it to Imgur and send folks the link to it. Free, no signup necessary (either by you or the recipients), videos up to 60 seconds / 200MB.

https://imgur.com/upload


Does Imgur make uploads public by default?

No. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201746817-Post-Privacy-Settings

Re: Easiest way to send a short video?

Posted: September 9th, 2020, 9:24 am
by servodude
mc2fool wrote:
servodude wrote:
mc2fool wrote:Upload it to Imgur and send folks the link to it. Free, no signup necessary (either by you or the recipients), videos up to 60 seconds / 200MB.

https://imgur.com/upload


Does Imgur make uploads public by default?

No. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201746817-Post-Privacy-Settings


Thanks! I've used it only for posting to TLF and I never thought to check until now!