Thanks, everyone--problem solved! I didn't realize until reading your responses that the Youtube version would already be compressed. In fact, it's only 42 MB. So I downloaded it from Youtube and can upload it to Amazon. Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com http://transformpreneur.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) _________________________________________________ On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jeff Brand <jeff at deltafactory.com> wrote: > I second these recommendations. > > I also sign my emails the same way. ;) > - Jeff > > > On 12/29/2016 6:31 PM, Chaim Peck wrote: > > You can use HandBrake to do video transcoding and compression: > https://handbrake.fr/ > > It might be easier to simply upload the video to YouTube though. In > QuickTime Player, Choose File > Share > YouTube, and enter some > information. It will compress/re-format the video as is necessary to > transmit to YouTube. > > Alternatively, go to YouTube.com <http://youtube.com> and upload from > there. > > Be sure to select "unlisted" if you don't want the video to come up in > search results. > > If it is uploading the full 2.6GB at 1 MB/sec, it should take about 45 > minutes. > > - Jeff > > > > On December 29, 2016 at 6:17:18 PM, Shel Horowitz ( > shel at principledprofit.com) wrote: > > My speaker demo is a 4-minute, 2.68 GB Quicktime video. I would love to > place it on my Amazon Author Central page, but it has to be 500 MB or > under. Is there an easy way for a non-techie like me with only basic tools > (iMovie and Adobe Premiere) to export a small enough version? I have very > poor skills in both those apps. > > Alternatively, if anyone knows a way to link a Youtube instead of > uploading? I know I could divide it into five parts of under a minute, but > I think that would be really annoying for viewers. Apparently this is much > higher-res than earlier videos I've posted of about the same length. > > Thanks, as always. > > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > http://transformpreneur.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: > Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad > Levinson) > > _________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.netHidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site.http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20161229/53afdaca/attachment.html