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so, i'm a total noob when it comes to anything other than watching videos on youtube. a few years ago i successfully posted a few videos of me playing the guitar and that went without a hitch. now, i'm trying to make a series of tutorials on sacred geometry with a digital camera with 12.1 megapixels. when i go to load my video onto youtube it says it will take 400 minutes for it to get on there. i went to some sort of FAQ thing that is on the site, and it told me all this other stuff about frame rate and blah blah blah...

so basically, i'm wondering if there is a straightforward - and preferably free - program that i can acquire that will allow me to adjust settings or resolution or whatever to more easily post videos to youtube.

(i know a lot of the stuff i post doesn't have anything to do with music, but musicians know a lot of random stuff!!)


thanks bunches.

EDIT: and normally i would just leave the computer to do its thing for 400 minutes, but i tried that with one that one took 86 minutes to load and when it had loaded, it told me it was too large. so i increased my upload limit, tried again, and now the video is up, but the video is eleven minutes going twice the speed when it should be 25 minutes and the audio is going normal speed and obviously none of it synced up. also, the bottom half of the video is BLUE. that was about 4 hours, maybe 5 hours of wasted life.

Janszoon

What kind of operating system are you on?

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windows.

Freebase Dali

You can use something as simple as the free Windows Movie Maker. I've never used it, but I'm sure there are guides online. The important thing you'll want to take note of are the video guidelines on Youtube, as they give you important info about what format is accepted, and quality guidelines. It's a good idea to read through it and try to understand it.

Also, you'll have to figure out what kind of settings you need to attend to when exporting your videos in whatever program you decide on, because this will have a lot to do with how large of a file you end up exporting, and at what level of quality. In general, the higher the quality and resolution, the larger the file. And larger files = longer upload times.

Anyway, you can probably find simple tutorials about this stuff on the web. You're not trying to do anything incredibly complex, so it should be easy enough to get a grasp on the basics so you're not waiting a year for your videos to upload and either get rejected because they're too large, not being comfortable with the quality after it is converted by Youtube, or it being all jacked up because we didn't take Youtube seriously when it told us what not to do.

Good luck.

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thanks buddy. i did end up getting it on there. all i had to do was convert it from a quicktime file to an AVI file. i did that with a free conversion program called Prism, and it took about 50 minutes for it to convert an 11 minute video. i actually expected the conversion to take longer, so i'm a happy camper.

Freebase Dali

That solves one of your issues. But if you convert a too-large .MOV to a too large AVI, you're no better off in the limitation department. You'll want to make sure you have control of the output settings when converting, and know what to do with them. If you don't have that control, then you will need to look into something that gives it to you.

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