[Hidden-tech] Need to drastically compress a video file

Tim Boudreau niftiness at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 03:13:58 EST 2016


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.
>
>
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> 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
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>> Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger,
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