Thanks Igor, I’ll look into that.
I ended up setting up the K-1 on the bigma, it’s night to be able to instantly get a wider field of view. I just used quicktime to string together a bunch of clips of feeding from yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Mt2kIVKB8 > On Jul 10, 2020, at 7:38 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Larry, > Those are very nice and interesting videos! > > > I've been uploading videos made with both K-5s and most recently K-1 to > Youtube. Here are a few thoughts and hints based on my experience. > > I don't know what format K-3 is using. K-5 and K-7 were using video format > that is not well compressed, "Motion JPEG". And the file container was .avi . > To speed up the upload and to conserve my monthly bandwidth allowance, - I > was recoding it to MP4. To give you an example of just one file (~3 min): 882 > MB -> 290 MB > > K-1 is using a better codec (H.264) to compress the video, so the videos > are smaller to begin with. (And the container is .MOV) > Yet, I sometimes recode it as well. > E.g. 0:54 sec is 148 MB -> 28 MB (This video subject seems to be more > compressible in general, hence a much smaller file per minute.) > > (After a quick google search, I see that K-3 is using the same video > format (MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (MOV).) > > To recode, I use a free tool called Avidemux. I am using it on Windows, but I > believe it exists for macOS too. > It also allows cuting videos (and splicing them, - but no fancy effects. For > those, you can try a free tool called VSDC, and Wings > Platinum 5, which has a free version ("Basic", IIRC). > Avidemux also allows replacing (or removing) audio tracks easily. > > I use these command line options for Avidemux conversion (to optimize for > Youtube): > > avidemux_cli.exe --nogui --load VIDEO.mov --video-codec x264 > --audio-codec LavAAC --output-format MP4 --save "VIDEO-upload.mp4" --quit > > (I suspect --nogui is no longer needed.) > > Sometimes, I recode manually, but sometimes I run a batch file. > Let me know if you want one as an example, and I will send it to you > directly. > > HTH, > > Igor > > > > Larry Colen Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:48:47 -0700 wrote: > > Fortunately, the one with the best action was only 39 seconds / 105 MB and > only took about half an hour to upload. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
