How to Share iTunes DRM Protected Videos to Vimeo Without any Problems

Have you ever thought of uploading iTunes videos online so that to share them with your family and friends? Instead of uploading them to Facebook or YouTube, it is a better choice to upload to Vimeo, which is a professional video website. In Vimeo, there are more video professionals which may offer you constructive comments and it won’t have advertisements. The most important is that it offers the option for you to set a password to protect your videos. In this post, I will discuss the solution on how to upload iTunes videos to Vimeo and present you the tutorial on how to do that step by step.

• Part 1. Best Way to Share DRM Protected iTunes Videos to Vimeo
• Part 2. Remove DRM Protection and Convert iTunes Videos to Vimeo Step by Step
• Part 3. Further Tips on Uploading DRM-fre Movies to Vimeo

Part 1. Awesome Solution to Upload iTunes Video Clips to Vimeo

When it comes to uploading and sharing iTunes videos, most people find it is a great fun to do that between family people and friends. In this way, they can enjoy and talk about the same movies together. And this should not cause any copyright issue as long as they don’t share the videos in public for marking money. However, there are some problems need to be fixed before uploading the iTunes movies to Vimeo. One of the most noteworthy issue of iTunes videos is that they are combined with DRM theme protection. This DRM theme limits many aspects of the iTunes movies such as playback, editing and more. Consequently, if you want to upload videos from iTunes to Vimeo, the only way is to remove DRM restriction firstly. Also, since Vimeo website doesn’t support the Apple proprietary M4V video format, you should convert the iTunes videos from DRM M4V to a Vimeo compatible format too. This maybe sound a little complicated. But you don’t really need to worry about it as it is very easy if you get a right tool. Here I will recommend an all-in-one iTunes DRM removal software, that is DRmare M4V to Vimeo Video Converter which offers a one-stop solution to help you remove iTunes FairPlay DRM and convert iTunes purchased and rental M4V movies to Vimeo quickly. Following is a list of the main features of this smart app.

DRmare M4V to Vimeo Video Converter

• Strip DRM from protected iTunes M4V purchased and rented movies, TV shows
• Convert iTunes DRM M4V videos to a list of Vimeo compatible formats like MP4, AVI
• Batch converting iTunes movies at 30X faster speed to save you plenty of time
• Supports lot of settings on your output videos including bit rate, frame rate and so on

Part 2. How to Convert iTunes DRM M4V TV Series to Vimeo Step by Step

Before you getting started to convert your iTunes movie files to Vimeo, please make sure you have already downloaded the iTunes videos completely and also installed the DRmare M4V Converter on your computer. When you are ready, please follow the 3 simple steps one by one.

Step 1 Load iTunes M4V movies and TV episodes

In general, you just need to do a simple drag and drop to load your iTunes M4V videos. But if you have numerous of files, DRmare M4V to Vimeo Converter offers a much better way to import the files. Just navigate to the bottom right side and then click the ‘+’ button, you will see the popup list with all the videos from your iTunes library and you can check the options in front of the files to select them.

Step 2 Define output video for ‘Vimeo’

You can select ‘Vimeo’ profile under the ‘Web Video’ tab directly, it will export to the optimized video for Vimeo. But you can also customize the video more by yourself. The common video formats supported by Vimeo are MP4, MPEG, MOV, AVI and so on. You can simply select one of the format under the ‘General Video’ tab and then you can click the small gear icon on top of the format to customize the output parameters. Typically, the best settings for Vimeo is 1280 x 720 resolution, 23.97 frame rate, H.264 codec, MP4 container, 5MBPS bit rate.

Step 3 Convert the iTunes movies to Vimeo

At last, you can go ahead to click the ‘Conversion’ button, the software will get rid of DRM and convert iTunes videos to Vimeo at simultaneously. Depending on the number of files you selected and the output settings, it may take different time to complete, but the speed should be very fast. When you finish converting, you can open the converted list to find the output videos.

Part 3. Additional Tips on Uploading DRM-free iTunes Movies to Vimeo

Now you should be able to upload the converted iTunes movies to Vimeo without DRM protection. Please note that there is a limitation on the size of the video file which you want to upload. For example, you can upload only 500MB weekly on a basic free account, 5GB per week for a plus account and 20G per week for Pro account.

It takes only several clicks to upload your videos to Vimeo. To get started, please login your Vimeo account. If it is your first time to use Vimeo, please sign up a new account. Second, you can click ‘Upload’ and then choose a video to start to upload. Next, you can do the settings such as add a Title, description and password for your video.  When it is uploaded completely, you can close the page directly. But you will still have to wait a while before you can see your uploaded video as it need to be encoded by Vimeo.