I recorded my wife making a short speech today, and it’s amazing how huge 6 minutes of mov can be. Over 750MB.
Can’t include it in a message, and it’s too big to email. I tried sharing a link to it after uploading the video to OneDrive but it has to download to play, which takes the same forever as uploading it did.
How can I make it easier to share? Is there a tool that will reduce its size? Does iCloud allow playing from the cloud?
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Mar 4, 2025, 05:50 PM
You want Handbrake. This is what we run our stuff through as the final step of our workflow.
It’s a GUI for ffmpeg, the open source, command line, Swiss Army knife of video transcoders. You’ll be able to crush that somewhere between one and two orders of magnitude.
It’s got lots of fiddly bits, most of which you can ignore. I can run through the important stuff if you want.
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Mar 4, 2025, 10:05 PM
I’ve used ffmpeg for a few tasks, but I didn’t realize that it had a GUI front end. That changes things drastically.
IIRC, ffmpeg can crop video frames as well. Which would be useful, since I wasn’t able to frame things the way I wante.
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Mar 4, 2025, 10:16 PM
ffmpeg can indeed do cropping!
More importantly, that’s in the Handbrake interface. Handbrake is good stuff.
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Mar 4, 2025, 10:17 PM
After doing Handbrake, you can upload to YouTube instead of OneDrive. Flag it as unlisted (anyone can load if they know the URL), or private (must login, restricted to specific people). This works especially well for long videos – just email the link.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Mar 5, 2025, 08:52 AM
^ Hard to beat unlisted on YouTube.
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Mar 5, 2025, 09:10 PM
I had thought that one needed a paid account to upload to YouTube…
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Mar 5, 2025, 10:38 PM
Nah, YouTube makes money off content creation. Giving them content is free.
