putting video on the site, help

[Jason@JGY]

Well, as some of you know, we have been adding videos to the site for a while now.

Although, many of you like it, you all say with a childlike voice "but there is no sound!"

Well, our Sony cam corder records on DVDRW's. This makes it really nice to record stuff. This weekend, after countless hours, we figured it out.

The Sony records in .VOB's.......which, youtube won't let you post.....We figured this out.........simply change the extention to .mpeg yes, it is that easy

Here's the problem..........if we take a video of about 2 minutes.........it takes about 3 hours to upload it to youtube which is crazy annoying.......and that is about the biggest that you can do as you are limited to 1000mg's or so....


Question.... how can we make the video LESS in size so that we can put a 7 minute video on there?

[turbomario98]

I know when I put movies on my ipod touch I have to use a dectypter program. This makes the movie like 1g instead of 60.

[Jason@JGY]

so.......where would one find this? I think NERO has this option and it came with one our DVD burners but it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow

[SR20JonBoy]

You can do a google search for video compression software and you will get tons of stuff. Basically, you use a compression software, open the video you want to make smaller, choose the compression rate (how far you want to downsize the video), and the end format. I know the more you compress, the worse the quality, but I don't think anyone would complain about not having blu-ray quality vids on the site lol.

[ShamROCK]

Basically, you use a compression software, open the video you want to make smaller, choose the compression rate (how far you want to downsize the video), and the end format. I know the more you compress, the worse the quality...


The only problem with doing it this way is that after you upload the video YouTube again compresses it for their purposes. So after you have degraded the quality, YouTube will only degrade it further. I am currently looking into ways to avoid that even being an issue and not having to endure an eternal upload at the same time...