Are you tired and frustrated of YouTube videos taking soooo long to upload? For me, video uploading was the slowest part of my online video creation process and it was driving me nuts! I wasn’t the only one apparently. My friend Shelly Allen was frustrated with YouTube because it was taking her 30 mins to upload a 4 minute video. Time is precious so I knew there must be a faster way…and there is. This video will show you how to save yourself hours of upload time without sacrificing the quality of your videos.
The secret to speeding this is up is to use a video converter to convert your videos to a format significantly smaller in size (without losing quality), before uploading it to YouTube. There are many video converters out there, but I highly recommend a free video converter called MPEG Streamclip. It is very simple to use, available for Mac or PC, and will create a small yet high quality .mp4 YouTube-friendly video file.
Depending on your computer, the video converting process make take a few mins, but is worth the wait. The advantage is that the video convert happens on your computer and is not affected by the speed of quality of your Internet connection and the resulting file is significantly smaller and will take a lot less time to upload to YouTube.
As a bonus, this video converter can also be used to convert between various video file formats (MOV, AVI, MP4, etc) which may come in handy when editing your videos in certain video editing software packages.
Are you frustrated with slow YouTube uploads? Tell me about how long it takes for your videos to upload to YouTube in the comments below.
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Hey Hani,
Thanks for sharing this free video converter tool. You have a great video blog!
Question: Is it wise to run the videos from your host server or from YouTube?
Chat with you later…
Josh
Hey Josh,
Thanks again for dropping in and for the kind words.
To answer your question, it depends on what the purpose of the video is. If you want the video to be seen by the world and gain maximum visibility, then YouTube is the best, fastest, and cheapest way to do this. I also suggest you use the free TubeMogul service to automatically post the videos to other video sharing sites as well:
http://www.easyonlinevideotips.com/7-most-common-mistakes-people-make-with-online-marketing-video-part7/
If you have a membership-type site or want only members of your blog/website to see your videos, then you definitely need to host them on your server. This is not as tricky as it seems at first (there are a few extra steps that YouTube does for you that you would have to do manually when posting the video on your own site. In short, these steps are:
1. Converting your video to FLV or MP4 so it can quickly and efficiently stream on a website.
2. Put your video on a fast server (ideally not the same server that you have your blog or website on since it might slow down them down as well). I highly recommend the Amazon S3 service…it is extremely cheap, reliable, and fast.
3. You need a video player on your blog or website to play the actual video. Wordpress has a great plugin called “Flash Video Player” which lets you play your own hosted videos (and YouTube videos as well)
Would you be interested in a video tutorial that walks you through all the steps to having your videos hosted on your own server (what I like to call “Private videos”)
Hani
Once again, great value we get from you Hani, I’ve shared this with my FB friends also.
Thanks as always
Trish
Hey Trish…nice to see you again. You’re most welcome.
I’m all for helping people save time. I know how frustrating it is to wait, especially since most Internet providers have slow upload speeds when compared to download speeds.
Cheers,
Hani
Hello Hani,
Thanks for another great video. You alway’s give so much value. I don’t hesitate to share you website with everyone I know.
Ps – I recently moved from Florida to AZ. You now have a friend in Tucson AZ. Let me know if you ever make it down this way.
Tony
Hey Tony my man..thanks for the offer. I’ve never been to AZ before, but heard good things about it. I might have to take you up on that offer one of these days. Thank you for sharing my videos and site with everyone..that is MUCH appreciated!
Hani
Hi there Hani
Thanks for the tip here – I’m preparing a powerpoint presentation and have selected a youtube vid for including on a slide. I use mediaconverter to get it to wmv file. When I saw the size of it I almost fell of my chair – 95.4MB, I thought this would never do, especially if I want to send the ppp to someone via email.
Your tip to decrease the size of the file seemed to be the answer, but having installed the Square 5 software I find that .wmv file is not supported! So back to square one.
Can you suggest what my next move should be?
Hi Rhianne…you like to challenge me don’t you
That’s ok, I like to help solve problems, so it’s all good.
Ok, first question, is Windows Media Player able to play your .wmv file?
Here are a few things to try:
1. Install the FFDShow video codecs and try again – http://www.ffdshow.info and try again
2. Is MediaConverter able to export your PPT in a format called MOV or MP4 or .H264?
3. Try a different PPT to Video converter. There is an excellent one free one here: http://www.acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html – Set the output to MOV + .H264.
As a last resort, you can upload your WMV to YouTube and send the link to your friend to watch there.
One of these options will solve your problem…let me know how it works out.
Cheers,
Hani
Hey Hani!
Sheesh…
Better late than NEVER!
I just watched YOUR vid!
THANKS for the TIP…;)
Shelly
No problemo Shelly….thanks asking the question and inspiring me to create this video