Upload & video
Photos and video, together.
Create an album, then bring in your photos and clips. Drag in a few, or send big batches. Your videos play right in the album.
However you work.
Drag and drop.
Easy Upload works right in your browser, with progress for every file.
Easy Upload
Big batches, too.
Mega Upload takes larger batches. FTP handles high-volume transfers.
Mega and FTP
Every kind of file.
JPEG, HEIC, RAW, TIFF, and PSD. Video and PDFs, too.
File types
Video that plays in place.
Clips sit beside your photos, up to 4K and 8K.
Video sizesVideo sizes follow your upload.
Upload in higher resolution, and guests get bigger viewing sizes.
Upload an HDR or Dolby Vision clip and ImageEvent always makes an HDR10 version too.
Frames drawn to scale: 720p, 1080p, 4K, and 8K.
How it works.
Create an album
Uploads always go into an album, so make one first.
Pick a way in
Easy Upload for most days. Mega Upload or FTP for big batches.
Add your files
Browse or drop in photos, RAW files, video, and PDFs.
Start Upload
Files appear in the album, and videos get their viewing sizes.
All the options.
Every setting, with step-by-step how-tos.
Easy UploadBrowse or drop files right in your browser.
- Open the album you created and click Easy Upload.
- Click Browse (pick several at once) or drag files onto Drop files here.
- Click Start Upload at the lower right. Each file shows its progress.
The page shows which album the files go into, so there’s nothing else to fill in.
Mega UploadFor larger batches.
- In your album, click Mega Upload.
- Click Browse or drop files in. Use Add more files to keep going.
- Click Start Upload.
You can switch the list to Tiles, or clear it with Remove all files.
FTP UploadHigh-volume transfers with File Explorer or an FTP app.
- In your album, click FTP Upload for your connection details.
- Connect to
ftp.imageevent.comwith your ImageEvent username and password. - Open the folder for your album and upload. Its
README.TXTshows upload status.
- Windows: File Explorer, FileZilla, CuteFTP, or WS_FTP.
- Mac: FileZilla, Fetch, or Transmit.
- Files may take a few seconds to appear while they process.
- Trouble connecting? Try passive (PASV) mode in your FTP app.
File types and limitsPhotos, RAW, video, and documents.
- Images
- JPEG, PNG, GIF, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, SVG, PSD, and more
- RAW
- Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, DNG, and more
- Video
- MP4, WebM, MOV, AVI, WMV, MKV, M4V, MPEG, and more
- Office
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, OpenDocument, and more
Size per file
- Trial
- 5 MB per file
- Premium
- 50 MB per file
- 300 MB per video
- Power Premium
- 300 MB per file
- 4 GB per video
There’s no fixed cap on the number of files or the total size. Video, RAW, and Office files are part of Premium.
Watching videoSpeed, fullscreen, picture-in-picture, and more.
Videos play right in the album. The player has volume, a timeline, Settings, Cast, picture-in-picture, and fullscreen.
Settings → Speed: 0.2×, 0.5×, 0.7×, 1×, 1.2×, 1.5×, 1.7×, or 2×.
Video PropertiesThe viewing sizes for each clip, with links.
Open Video Properties from any video to see its sizes, such as 720p H.264 and 1080p AV1. Each row has Copy URL, Download, and Open.
Higher-resolution uploads can list more sizes. See how sizes follow your upload.
Upload defaultsWhere new photos go, matching names, and web quality.
In Global Settings → Uploading:
- New photos slot in: for example, From last number.
- Same filename as an old file: for example, Rename new file.
- JPEG quality (generated sizes): from Smallest files to Highest quality. It affects the web copies, not your originals.
- FTP new folders.
