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Glow Blogs Tips - Shrinking Video

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One of the problems people 

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run into with blog is sometimes videos are a bit big to upload to blogs

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very often videos taken especially 

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with newer devices, mobile phones and the the like

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are very good quality, very big dimensionally

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and large have a large file size.

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Ideally for blogs we want to make the files sizes a bit smaller

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That means they upload but also means

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for people watching they will load in their browser a lot faster

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than a larger file size. Especially important 

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for people watching on mobile or with not good broadband.

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This video here I have is one I am hoping to upload to

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the help blog. It is 58.7MB in size

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which is a bit big for uploading

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I am going to use an application called Handbrake

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Handbrake comes from handbrake.fr

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it is free to download, it runs on mac,

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windows or linux computers.

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It is a great application. It has a awful 

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lot of powerful settings. Of which I know very little.

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I do know how to make a video smaller and this is how to do that.

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I am going to open this video with Handbrake

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I am using the contextual menu

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but you could open Handbrake and load the video if you like.

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It opens up and show a preview

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there are all sorts of thing you could do 

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in setting this. I mainly use the presets. I tend to go general and go

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“Very Fast 480p30”

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which is you can see is a small video.

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I would click Web Optomised,

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If I wanted to save a bit of extra space I might go to the audio tab 

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and take the the bit rate down to 64

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which I’ve found is fine for voice

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Then I click Start

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you can see 

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down at te botton, the name and path of the file.

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You can choose where to save if you wanted. This might take

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a minute or two

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Once it is done I can look for the file

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and here

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you can see it has dropped 

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to 4.2MB

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58.7MB to 4.2MB 1920x1080 to 764x480 pixels

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