Glow Blogs Tips - Shrinking Video
One of the problems people
run into with blog is sometimes videos are a bit big to upload to blogs
very often videos taken especially
with newer devices, mobile phones and the the like
are very good quality, very big dimensionally
and large have a large file size.
Ideally for blogs we want to make the files sizes a bit smaller
That means they upload but also means
for people watching they will load in their browser a lot faster
than a larger file size. Especially important
for people watching on mobile or with not good broadband.
This video here I have is one I am hoping to upload to
the help blog. It is 58.7MB in size
which is a bit big for uploading
I am going to use an application called Handbrake
Handbrake comes from handbrake.fr
it is free to download, it runs on mac,
windows or linux computers.
It is a great application. It has a awful
lot of powerful settings. Of which I know very little.
I do know how to make a video smaller and this is how to do that.
I am going to open this video with Handbrake
I am using the contextual menu
but you could open Handbrake and load the video if you like.
It opens up and show a preview
there are all sorts of thing you could do
in setting this. I mainly use the presets. I tend to go general and go
“Very Fast 480p30”
which is you can see is a small video.
I would click Web Optomised,
If I wanted to save a bit of extra space I might go to the audio tab
and take the the bit rate down to 64
which I’ve found is fine for voice
Then I click Start
you can see
down at te botton, the name and path of the file.
You can choose where to save if you wanted. This might take
a minute or two
Once it is done I can look for the file
and here
you can see it has dropped
to 4.2MB
58.7MB to 4.2MB 1920x1080 to 764x480 pixels