How to compress video and reduce video file size for faster upload

A quick video tutorial demonstrating how to reduce the file size of captured video for uploading to video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Link: http://handbrake.fr/

In this demonstration I take video captured from a digital camera which is 115MB and compress it down to 11MB, allowing for quick and speedy upload to video sites.

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ok welcome to this quick video tutorial
what the aim of this video is to reduce
the file size of a recorded video to
allow a small spear faster upload to
youtube or any of the video sharing
service example here is I've take this
video on holiday
this is taking with a normal digital
camera now because there's a small
device and not a particularly powerful
they don't do very good compression
which leaves the file size rather large
so if you like this video its own 815
megabytes reopen it
15 megabytes now a slower connection
maybe in the one that connection that's
going to take a long time to upload so
what we're going to do here is compress
it locally on your local machine get the
file size down a lot and then that allow
you to upload it to YouTube a lot faster
all like that ever video sharing site so
the first thing we need to do is get
some software which will reduce the file
size compressed file size of this video
now we need to do is search google for
the space there's software upon the
break so
search through how to make video such as
keyword and you'll find software now
this is a free and open source software
which means basically it's free to use
that to pay or anymore Hank Lawson fruit
flavors so which is Europeans and i'm
actually on licks so I already installed
best buy from windows you the dollar the
the windows version now the DUI is
graphical user interface that's what the
one you want
so if you screw up that it all starts
download it save it to the desktop
install it the way you will cancel
i've already installed this so that
means open up for you now this is a i'm
using ubuntu here this is a linux
destroyed and ensure you're going to use
windows or maybe a Mac look different
but applications exactly say so
find it once you've selected
sorry about this
just doing some previously so this is
what you like that once you install it
mr. the software hungary and now it
might look quite complex which it may be
but ultimately we do not need any of
these options really this is all for
customized things we really don't need
to the left there when you're interested
really is is the source this is with a
load this video to this application soju
source will choose a look at the file
browser again this is linux atlas file
browser looks different to yours when
those loads default want to select the
video you're after and then over it and
there we go
you'll notice it will scan the video and
yourself preview here i'll learn some
default so here the the settings based
on more videos from is now on the right
here these presets this software allows
it allows you to convert video too many
different formats which is a console
like playstation or on the Apple you can
go over to your ipod and 14 final or
concern with his normal compression that
was the best
file format compression to upload to
YouTube
that's what you want your setting is so
is your destination
this is where the files will be saved
out to deliver back to the desktop so if
your trials choose your desktop give it
a file name
it's a video
save that
so that's gonna save it to my desktop as
that video file name that again that's
it choose a source choose the image in
person of the video and pop make sure
your process normal
and then just tell it what safe
destination for brows and that's it
next step is just hip start now this
wall start to encode it means that all
analyzed the video the image colors the
motion of video and then eventually all
save out as a video file a lot what I go
now what does is a to passing coding
what this means is that first pass will
analyze every frame of the video taking
in the motion color the contrast all of
the different information to work out
what is the best optimal compression can
do in each and each frame of animation
so the next April the second password
should be saving out that video not
always only a minute long video it's
only 640 by 480 very small so they're
going to take me about two minutes and
total say this video if you've got a
longer video if it's an out the longer
the video and length the long it's gonna
take to
compress also the file song as are the
dimensions of it is 640 by 480 but the
other in HD which can potentially peers
1024 x 720 believe again that's gonna
take a lot longer to do differ factor is
the speed of your computer if your
computer's an old computer dependent him
something about it's gonna take a lot
longer if you're running any more modern
CPU more and more modern PC with a jewel
core processor you'll get a lot faster
compression just too badmind you leave
us going this is going to take me two
minutes but if you've got a half hour
video it's in HD eat could pretend to
take hours so you leave it go and come
back to it later
yeah
so we'll contact this mind to the camera
doesn't really compress it at all
actually it was no real compression
which is the reason why or why the file
size is so large and 15 megabytes so I'm
one-minute video is is huge i think it's
no video compression at all this what
it's actually doing is converting it
into a compressed and before that is
using a code called h.264 this is pretty
much what happens with mp3 so if you
ripped your own audio track from your CD
I didn't do any compression on it it'd
be maybe 80 200 megabytes long for a 23
minute long audio track you weren't for
an mp40 compressor ill strip out things
do some compression will take it down to
three four megabytes exactly say things
going on there so it doesn't rip is done
i can enclose this programming quickest
well
so all those will show you the
difference under the properties of this
original video says the original hundred
fifty megabytes of the properties of
this one
apparently only 11 megabytes so you can
see you
rustic death
again uploading this on uploading
hundred and fifty megabytes even a fast
connection could take an hour or two
eleven backbiting as a detective
teammates but more importantly let's
look at the quality difference because
you will always lose quality when you
can press anything especially video so
if we look at the original here
make sure the original file size
dimensions so if we play this
you see there's lots of fine detail
especially in this war the lower lower
part screen some nice colors green and
loser
now usually if you compressing is the
the first thing to go is the sharpness
of the image and you lose a lot of the
detail but because they're due to pass
compression which is the default with
her break it tries to keep as much
detail as possible while reducing file
size so freaking stop
make sure
its native resolution you should save it
we still keep the nice colors for detail
there's no blocking his noble airiness
think I'll just pause it here is quite a
lot of sharpened still in the print work
we can still see
the qualities we remained and says a
difference here is from a hundred
megabytes 210 glides very much and
there's no real loss of
of quality that so that's it that's the
tutorial so if you take video on your
camcorder or your digital still camera
you'll and it's too big to upload or
it's going to take too long to load you
need to compress it down
this is the way direct the best of it
and get the faster upload