Custom URL for your video reel.
Set it before you send the link, not after.

That is a genuine problem on platforms that hand out an opaque address by default. It is worth naming plainly what this product does instead, because the honest answer changes the advice. Here, the address is derived from the film’s title from the moment it is uploaded. Upload a file called Le Dernier Quai and the page answers at uncompressed.io/yourname/le-dernier-quai. There is no digit string to escape from. In most cases the address you would have written by hand is already the address you have.

The editable field exists anyway, because a file name is not always a title. Exports carry v4 and FINAL and a client’s initials. The tail is yours to rewrite, and this page is mostly about the one thing worth knowing before you do.

Both public forms are real addresses, not one redirecting to the other. The apex form, uncompressed.io/{username}/{slug}, is the canonical one and the one used in the page’s metadata. The subdomain form, {username}.uncompressed.io/{slug}, is the one the dashboard shows and copies, and it is the one that reads best in an email signature, because your own name comes first. Pick whichever you prefer and be consistent about it; there is no penalty for using both, but a client who has bookmarked one and been sent the other will assume something changed.

There is a third address that is not built from the title at all. Every film also answers at uncompressed.io/v/ plus its id, and the embed used on other people’s sites is uncompressed.io/embed/ plus the same id. Those two are stable identifiers, not readable names. That is deliberate, and it is the reason a rename cannot break an embed you have already placed on a client’s website.

One related behaviour, because it is the question that usually follows. Uploading a new cut over an existing film does not touch the address: the link, the view count, the embeds already placed elsewhere, the privacy setting and the film’s position on your page all stay as they were. Two honest caveats come with that. The previous file is replaced rather than archived, so keep your own copy. And the thumbnail, the captions and any timecoded notes still refer to the previous cut, so repick the frame after a substantial re-edit. That workflow has its own guide, linked at the foot of this page.

Take the embedding constraint seriously, because it decides the shape of your site. On Vimeo, a custom URL is an address for the video’s own page, and Vimeo states plainly that custom video URLs cannot be embedded. If your plan is to put the reel in a page on your own site, you use the numeric address for the embed and the custom one for sharing, and you now maintain two addresses for one film. Here the split is the same in structure but invisible in use, because the readable address and the embed address were never the same thing: the embed is keyed to the film’s id, so you can rewrite the readable address as often as you like without touching a single page that already carries the film.

Where Vimeo is the better answer is the row above it. We have no custom domain. If what you actually want when you search for a clean video URL is your reel at yourstudio.com rather than at somebody else’s address, we cannot do that, and Vimeo Portfolios can, for Pro members and higher, with Portfolios itself requiring Standard or higher, or Pro or higher. That is a real reason to choose them, and it would be dishonest to answer a question about addresses without saying so. What you get here instead is yourname.uncompressed.io, which is your name in the address, on a page that hosts the films rather than pointing at them.

One last note for people arriving here from a portfolio question rather than a link question. The address is only half of what a stranger sees. The film also has to be public and placed on your page before anyone can find it by browsing, because every upload starts hidden by design and stays off the public page until you place it. The portfolio hosting guide covers that side of it.