Help With A Fly Tying Video

[DaddyO]

My brother asked me to shoot a video of me tying his favorite fly. I have a Sony Handycam 201 that shoots straight to DVD. I shot the video and finalized the disc. I put the DVD in my computer and opened up Explorer to look at the DVD. The file format was a .VOB and it was about 450 MB. The video was about 15 minutes long. I was able to convert the file to a .MOV file format and that dropped it down to about 350 MB. Next I loaded it into a Video editing program and removed some content to get it to about 13 minutes. I've finally gotten it to about 150 MB in a .QT format. However, I don't know what to do, now, to get it any smaller. I can't imagine trying to load a file of that size to Youtube.

Do any of you video experts have any advice?

Thanks.

[fishinwrench]

Can you just split it into 2 parts?

[DaddyO]

I could do that, but it would still be a little over 70 MB per file.

[Cocry]

Mpeg-4 is the best quality to upload to youtube. Google will tell you any answer that you need to know. I just typed "best format to upload to youtube" .

[DaddyO]

My concerns are the SIZE of the file not the format, but, thanks anyway.

[Flysmallie]

MP4 will probably be one of the smallest sizes as well.

[Cocry]

the format determines the size.

[Brian Wise]

150mb is crazy small for a video that is under 10 minutes anyway. Are you wanting a smaller file size for an easier Youtube upload or for another reason? My file sizes are anywhere from 500mb to 1gig in HD and where I live we don't have really, really fast internet so my upload time is usually around 7-8 hours.

What program are you editing with?

[DaddyO]

Thanks Brian! That's the answer I was looking for. The video is 13 minutes in length and the .qt (QuickTime) format is 150MB in size. I am using the AVS4YOU Software suite and I really like it. There are 18 tools for editing Video, Audio, Images and file conversion. And, Yes, I was wanting as small a file size as possible to upload to YouTube. I have BroadBand access at home so the upload time won't take too long, but I was concerned about viewing performance.

[Brian Wise]

Great, if the video is 13 minutes and you don't have any music, "fixing", or effects then I don't see you getting any smaller in size without totally losing all of your quality.

I have DSL with a middle-of-the-road speed and my tying vides still take a while to upload. I usually upload right before I go to bed and it is typically done by the time I get up.