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Question on uploading video's to youtube

  • 27-07-2008 8:25pm
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    A mate have me an SD card with some video's he made with his camera, and wants me to put them on youtube. The quality seems to be a bit crappy, yet the file sizes are huge! 100mg for about 5 mins video. Its in AVI.

    Can I perhaps shrink it down before uploading to youtube, is there are more effecient way?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    They're probably uncompressed or very badly compressed. Try using virtualdub and encode it with xvid before uploading to youtube. You should reasonably be able to get 5 minutes of video down to 10-20MB depending on quality. If it's at a low resolution, maybe even 5MB.


  • #3
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    OK tired that, looks pretty complicated. I opened a 20mb file and saved it as an avi, came out at 585mb - obviopusly I'm dong somehting very wrong. Cannot find any xvid option.

    Any easier suggestions?
    Thanks


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    There are easier video conversion tools than virtualdub (which does take some getting used to), but, to be honest, I haven't used windows in ages. :o (edit: I think xvid4psp will do what you want, but the site is down right this minute).

    I'm sure someone else will come along to help you out.


  • #5
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    cool cheers!


  • #6
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    try windows movie maker, its as easy as it gets and is probably already on your pc


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  • #7
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Format Factory, free and simple to use, converts to just about any format. Super MP4 is another one, free and multiple formats supported. Not quite as user friendly, but good none the less.

    I convert my vids to .flv before uploading to Youtube. You can pick high or low quality with both of these, and choose resolution too.


  • #8
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Brilliant, cheers guys!


  • #9
    Poncherello
    Registered Users Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Poncherello


    I made a movie on Windows Movie maker with about 150 still photos with some background music. The file size is 850 MB is it realistic to upload this to Youtube using the above advice ?

    Thanjks


  • #10
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    I forgot about this... I did as the lads said above and used Windows Movie Maker, worked grand... You can chose the quality it outputs to to make it small. Here is the tune if you are interested:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV0bAUsATuo


    You probably won't like it but it has good memories for me...

    Format Factory is brilliant for any converting etc


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