For what it's worth, there is a free, open-source command-line tool that will do that and quite a bit more - pretty much a swiss army knife of video chewing/cropping/you-name-it. As far as I know, Handbrake, which someone else mentioned, is just a graphical UI for it. The upside of ffmpeg is that, being a command-line tool, it's easy to integrate it into automated, scripted workflows (at the moment I'm doing a bunch of training videos and stitching together animation from image files, so I'm using it quite a bit). It's called ffmpeg, and is available for any OS. So if you're feeling adventurous with the command-line, the following one-liner should get you what you want (replace the filenames in caps). If the result looks crappy, adjust the number after -q:v - zero is lossless compression (bigger file, better picture), the worst quality (and smallest file) is 51: ffmpeg -i YOUR_VIDEO_FILE.mov -vcodec libx264 -preset veryslow -pix_fmt yuv420p -q:v 30 -movflags +faststart COMPRESSED_VIDEO.m4v -Tim On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:00 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote: > 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. 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