Using SmugMug Video Commercially

[jroller]

Awaiting clarification from the help desk, but thought I might post here as well.

A friend and I are moving into a business venture. As part of this, we will need to serve video to users (often on a cell phone platform via QR codes). This video may contain x seconds of advertising at the opening.

Just want to make sure this is allowed via the terms of service; from what I read, it appears to be.

Here specifically is a use case I believe is permitted by what I reviewed:

A smugmug pro user can upload video files in the supported formats that are viewed by his customers via computer or mobile device. That video can be embedded on a third site and can include third party advertising as long as it is within the acceptable length and size limits. The video presented will be selected for the viewer at an appropriate size for his device (mobile user vs. desktop).

Is this correct?

Also, what limitations should I be aware of?

Thanks in advance...

[DavidTO]

I've moved your post to the SmugMug Video Support Forum.

Action! is for posting your videos to share and to talk about video in general. :thumb

[nigelbb]

Using SmugMug to host videos that you are using commercially is fine (at least it had better be as that is what we are doing:-) This is in contrast to other video hosting services e.g. Vimeo where it is explicitly forbidden by their T&Cs.

As regards your other requirements of embedding on a site & then selected for the viewer at an appropriate size for his device (mobile user vs. desktop) that doesn't work in all circumstances as the SmugMug embedded player is written in Flash & this will not work on the iPhone/iPad. Once you embed a video at a certain size e.g. 640x360 the viewer can watch at full resolution of the video e.g. 1280x720 screen or stretched to fill the screen e.g. 1920x1080. There are unsupported ways of embedding video hosted on SmugMug using your own player or even HTML5 (for Safari, Firefox & Chrome but not Internet Explorer)