Question about posting on YouTube

[Denis]

I shot a short clip of me playing the BaCH so I could send it to a buddy who was curious about how it sounded but the damn clip is 166mb and less than 3 minutes long.

This may be a stupid question considering the long clips on YouTube, but is there any way to drop the size on that mpg?

[OldManC]

You can in a Mac (in iMovie) but as you do you're also dropping in quality. You could just upload it to Youtube and send your friend a link. If you don't want it public you could make it a private video so it wouldn't show up in searches.

[Pilgrim]

Use Windows Movie Maker (free program) to create a new version in which you change the format from the current MP4 to WMV format.  Then upload.  

[Denis]

Thanks, I'll check those out. I have a G5 Mac so maybe that will make things easier (once I figure this movie stuff out).
Honestly, I saw the size of the video and haven't even bothered trying to upload it to YouTube!

[dadagoboi]

Use Windows Movie Maker (free program) to create a new version in which you change the format from the current MP4 to WMV format.  Then upload.  

Thanks for the tip, Pilgrim.  Didn't realize it's preinstalled on my win machine.  I have a feeling it's not available for your G5, Denis.

[hieronymous]

Not sure how old your mac is, but there should be a "share" tab at the top - this allows you to select different sizes for different formats.

On a side note, there are different versions of iMovie - around 2005 or so they dumbed it down - the story I heard is that they realized they were giving way too many features so people wouldn't buy Final Cut. When I make videos, I like to record the audio in ProTools instead of use the audio from my video camera - I haven't figured out how to use the "stupider" iMovie to sync the audio, but on the older version it is no problem.

[chromium]

I haven't figured out how to use the "stupider" iMovie to sync the audio, but on the older version it is no problem.

Not sure about iMovie, but in the other video apps I've used you can usually pull in the high quality audio that you recorded with the DAW and then just mute or delete the camera's audio, leaving just the high quality sound.

A cheesy trick I've been doing to sync things up (...while recording the video with the audio going into the DAW) is to perform some sort of quick visible and audible action at the beginning... inserting a cable, for example.  Then you can go in later and scrub the audio track listening for the audible "pop" and line it up with the corresponding action in the video.

[OldManC]

A cheesy trick I've been doing to sync things up (...while recording the video with the audio going into the DAW) is to perform some sort of quick visible and audible action at the beginning... inserting a cable, for example.  Then you can go in later and scrub the audio track listening for the audible "pop" and line it up with the corresponding action in the video.

I first started as a colorist by doing dailies on cheesy B films. As you might imagine, the production values weren't always so professional. I once synced a scene which involved a car going off a cliff by finding the first time in bounced off the rocks below and finding the corresponding crash sound on the 1/4" audio reel. and then backing it up from there. You get to where you can do it with just about any noise that you can see being made on camera. The easiest really is to have someone stand on camera and clap once. Instant stix! The drawback is that you get to the point where sync being off by even one frame starts to really bug you and that happens a lot!

[Pilgrim]

Dang!  I stated off in radio and did a lot of editing on 1/4" audiotape.  I got to the point where I could use a grease pencil to mark a whole 10 minute interview, do all the cut-and-tape edits, roll the tape back and listen - without making a single mistake.