uploading a video to youtbue

[Richy200]

Does anyone know the best way to upload a video to youtube from the GoPro as it took me an hour to upload one earlier which is a joke!! :thumbdown:

 

[N0ddie]

Am afraid if you want the quality its gonna take a while.

It all depends on your internet connection. It usually takes me about 2 hours to upload each 10 minute clip of Knockhill vids.

 

[GrumpyTwig]

Usually you need to compress videos, they are just big files though when you have 1080p video of several minutes.

 

[Richy200]

Im running at 940 and 48fps I don't even know what software to use to put the video on to edit properly and then upload.

 

[Matt197]

I use Sony Vegas Pro and render my videos using the Internet 1080p setting.

Its going to take ages to upload because most people in the UK have a tiny upload speed, now I got fiber internet I can upload at 980KB/s but before it was something like 100KB/s and would take hours.

If you reduce the quality to reduce the file size then once uploaded to youtube it can look crap.

 

[Webby]

As above regarding upload speed, but you can make some real savings on file size with a good video editing program. Remember that YouTube is going to convert your video to to a H264/MP4 format whether it's SD, 480P, 720P, 1080P or if you're lucky enough to own and use a 4K camera 4096x3072 pixels.

For instance a 720P video on YouTube has a bitrate around 2-2.9Mbps. A 1080P video is 3-4.3Mbps. It has to be this size so most peoples internet download speed can cope with it.

Have a look at this for an example. This is a short 1080P video I shot at the 2010 British GP. Only 23 seconds long but in it's native format it's 127.6MB.



Here it is in the timeline:



And when it comes to the output stage you can see that by saving it as a 1080P WMV at 8Mbps the end video is going to be 23MB. That's quite a saving before you upload to YouTube.



Say you encode as a H264 MP4 at 4.3Mbps (the maximum bitrate YouTube uses):



Well that's only 12MB. A saving of 115MB.

I've done this using Premiere CS5.5, but you should be able to get the same results with any good video editing software. I haven't used the Vegas family, but I would bet that the version starting at £80 will do all you want.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegassoftware

 

[Webby]

Also this download speed calculator should help you figure out how long it will take to upload a video:

http://patcoola.coolastudios.com/?p=192

127.6MB @ 4.71Mbps = 4 minutes 37 seconds
12MB @ 4.71 Mbps = 26 seconds

 

[A2ON]

As an aside the very best setting IMO for the GPHDhero 2 is

720@60FPS

 

[N0ddie]

As an aside the very best setting IMO for the GPHDhero 2 is

720@60FPS

Yup, thats what setting I have my original GoPro :headphone: