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So I finally figured out how to import my movies from my camcorder. Now they're on my hard drive, in .mov format.

I tried uploading one of them to both photobucket and youtube and it was going to take FOREVER. Should I be converting them to something else first, or is it just something I'll have to deal with?

btw, the movie is 78MB and 1min 30sec

Thanks in advance...
 
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TheMonkeyProjec said:
So I finally figured out how to import my movies from my camcorder. Now they're on my hard drive, in .mov format.

I tried uploading one of them to both photobucket and youtube and it was going to take FOREVER. Should I be converting them to something else first, or is it just something I'll have to deal with?

btw, the movie is 78MB and 1min 30sec

Thanks in advance...
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Mpeg stream clip.There is a guy by the name of Brian who has tutorials on this sort of stuff.I as well have just purchased a hdd camcorder and with his tutorials it made it allot easier.To actually down size the films itself.
 
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FIRST! Please define FOREVER, tell us you connection details, and tell us the video details (length and screen size).

There is no magic in uploading as far as time goes. Your connection speed is what ever it is and Youtube isn't the quickest in this regard.

What you can do is review their tips. Render (export) the movie to the screen size they recommend and make it the best quality you can but no more than 100MB as they limit the upload size to non-Windows machines.

Oh. And remember that Youtube compresses the **** out of what ever you give them, so the quality will never be close to what you upload. At least that is what my experiments show.

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Using a special Windows plugin for browsers, you can upload upto a 1GB file.
 
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xstep said:
FIRST! Please define FOREVER, tell us you connection details, and tell us the video details (length and screen size).

There is no magic in uploading as far as time goes. Your connection speed is what ever it is and Youtube isn't the quickest in this regard.

What you can do is review their tips. Render (export) the movie to the screen size they recommend and make it the best quality you can but no more than 100MB as they limit the upload size to non-Windows machines.

Oh. And remember that Youtube compresses the **** out of what ever you give them, so the quality will never be close to what you upload. At least that is what my experiments show.

P.S.
Using a special Windows plugin for browsers, you can upload upto a 1GB file.
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Well, when i tried to upload it to photobucket, it was going 1% about every 3-4 minutes. It's 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 853x480.
 
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That does sound slow. Have you tested your internet connection speed? Tried a different browser? Maybe it was just bad timing and you hit a problem beyond your control?

If I did my math right, that 78MB file would take me around 20 minutes to upload at 527kbps. But you have to remember the service you are uploading to has its issues, so maybe can't actually handle that.

You indicate you don't know what codec to upload. Try exporting the file to the H.264 format.
 
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my upload speed was 1615kb/s. I'm going to try uploading the file to photobucket again.
 

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