[Slightly Bunkers]

I shot some video footage on my Canon 500D at the weekend and I want to upload it to youtube to share with family. I have a you tube account so off I went to start uploading. The first clip I went to upload was 3 minutes long and when the upload started it said 257 minutes to load!!! Is this the norm for youtube? Is their a quicker way? I tried Vimo but they have upload limit which the clip was too big for. The file is 596MB.

Not up to speed with video and file size of video clips but surely there is a quicker method of sharing these clips!

Thanks

[PogMoThoin]

596MB is a very large video file. What broadband connection do you have? You'd need something with a decent upload speed. For any Dsl broadband your upload is generally one eighth the speed of your download.

[human 19]

Originally Posted by Slightly Bunkers

I shot some video footage on my Canon 500D at the weekend and I want to upload it to youtube to share with family. I have a you tube account so off I went to start uploading. The first clip I went to upload was 3 minutes long and when the upload started it said 257 minutes to load!!! Is this the norm for youtube? Is their a quicker way? I tried Vimo but they have upload limit which the clip was too big for. The file is 596MB.

Not up to speed with video and file size of video clips but surely there is a quicker method of sharing these clips!

Thanks

596mB??? For that size, I would just post then DVD copies.

[croo]

I'm all for being friendly & helpful... but what does any of this have to do with open source?

[Slightly Bunkers]

Sorry I thought open source was for general queries!

[PogMoThoin]

Originally Posted by Slightly Bunkers

Sorry I thought open source was for general queries!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
http://www.opensource.org/

[Setun]

To answer the OPs question - the Canon 500D afaik can record full HD at 30fps. With a >500MB filesize for approx 3 minutes of footage I would expect you would be recording at the highest quality and possibly uncompressed.

If your internet connection is a bit slow, you'd actually be best sharing it on either a USB stick or a 'Data DVD' (ie not burning it as a DVD as the resolution would be too big for the disc to be able to display correctly, but using the disc as a storage medium which they can put in their computer and copy the data from.) If you do happen to have a decent internet speed and it's slow on the youtube side, you could try a site like http://yousendit.com, but a lot of these sites have a half-gig upload cap unless you pay.

Your other option is to compress the file and shrink it down to DV-PAL resolution (standard DVD resolution) with a video editor, and then upload to youtube or vimeo. It should reduce the filesize to less than 50MB and thus upload much quicker.