Jun192011

How can I compress videos before uploading them to YouTube?

jayaraman asks:

For uploading videos of 105 MB in YouTube, it takes 35 minutes or more. I would like to know whether it’s possible to compress the file and upload it. Is there any free software available?



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Jeffery Fabish

June 20, 2011

Variables in video size:

- Screen resolution (try changing height+width capturing?)
- Capture quality (set lower)
- Upload speed (set by your ISP, see below to check your up speed)

Have you tried using a better compression a lossy codec? Saikat wrote an article here at MakeUseOf on video compression for sending via email, however the concept remains the same for uploading to YouTube. 

Article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/compress-videos-send-email/
Test your upload/download speed: http://speakeasy.net/
Test your upload/download speed ²: http://speedtest.net/

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Susendeep Dutta

June 20, 2011

What is the format of the videos decides the size of the video.If your video has high bitrate then its size gets increased.If you want to reduce the size of your video then you have to compromise your video quality by decreasing bitrate and other factors.

There are many softwares available.Some of the good ones are –
Hamster Video converter

Hamster Video Converter: Batch Video Conversion Freeware For Windows

Freemake video converter


Freemake – An Easy Video Converter For Windows

Both of them require .net framework 4.0 to work.If you are using windows 7 then you dont need to install this runtime as it’s preinstalled already.

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Anonymous

June 20, 2011

YouTube recommends
that you prepare the footage with the following settings:
MPEG 4 (DivX, Xvid)
320 x 240 frame size
MP3 audio
30 fps
100 MB
file limit
10 minute duration limit

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