Question for Computer techies

[Red Dog]

Trying to get "with it" and use some "modern" technology. AHHHHHH
Politicians & Technology both promise wonderful things then deliver expensive crap.
Or I'm just to lazy (stupid?) to educate myself.

Shot some ride video's & wanted to post on a few different forums.  Found out I need to use You Tube. 
Opened the account waded thru it got it figured out & started to upload a 30 minute vid. 
It took 3 hours to upload!!!!!?????

So I took 6 hours & uploaded two vids.  Now the quality of these vids when I play them on my Mac, PC or laptop is very good, clear, crisp, detailed, good sound.  I posted them to a forum & they are just OK quality.  Not blurry but not sharp either.

The vids were taken using a helmet cam made by a company called "Replay".  I purchased it about 3 or 4 years ago & bought the best they had.  I like it better than the Go-Pro because it is very small & inconspicuous, light weight, waterproof to 10 feet, takes a 32 gig chip & can be powered from a 12v plug.  I have recorded 7 to 8 hours with it.  I like this cam I don't like you tube.  I have posted to facebook with better results but facebook won't display the vid unless you have an account with them.

Questions:
Can my vid be re-formatted to work better with you tube?  Pros & Cons.....
If yes what program to use?  Expensive?
What format would it convert to?
Other suggestions?

Honestly if it is this much trouble I'll just go back to my cave & tan some hides by the light of a bear fat lamp.

Thanks

[fotoguzzi]

what format does the camera shoot, MP4? did you edit it somehow?
it might be better to convert to .mov or H264 before sending to youtube, but they can convert anything so don't know why the res would go down.

second, it better be REALY GOOD  video if you think people want to watch 30 minutes of it.

look at YT support page for possible answers.

[jreagan]

Don't confuse a codec like H.264 with an extension like .mp4.  One is a compression algorithm and the other is a container.

There are several videos on YouTube (of course) that give good tutorials on how to upload HD video. 

Are you sure you selected the HD version with the settings when viewing?

And as for why it takes so long to upload...  Most home internet connections are much faster DOWN than UP.  For example, I get 100Mb/sec download speed, but only 8Mb/sec upload.

[webmost]

Trying to get "with it" and use some "modern" technology. AHHHHHH
Politicians & Technology both promise wonderful things then deliver expensive crap.
Or I'm just to lazy (stupid?) to educate myself.

Shot some ride video's & wanted to post on a few different forums.  Found out I need to use You Tube. 
Opened the account waded thru it got it figured out & started to upload a 30 minute vid. 
It took 3 hours to upload!!!!!?????

So I took 6 hours & uploaded two vids.  Now the quality of these vids when I play them on my Mac, PC or laptop is very good, clear, crisp, detailed, good sound.  I posted them to a forum & they are just OK quality.  Not blurry but not sharp either.

The vids were taken using a helmet cam made by a company called "Replay".  I purchased it about 3 or 4 years ago & bought the best they had.  I like it better than the Go-Pro because it is very small & inconspicuous, light weight, waterproof to 10 feet, takes a 32 gig chip & can be powered from a 12v plug.  I have recorded 7 to 8 hours with it.  I like this cam I don't like you tube.  I have posted to facebook with better results but facebook won't display the vid unless you have an account with them.

Questions:
Can my vid be re-formatted to work better with you tube?  Pros & Cons.....
If yes what program to use?  Expensive?
What format would it convert to?
Other suggestions?

Honestly if it is this much trouble I'll just go back to my cave & tan some hides by the light of a bear fat lamp.

Thanks

Sounds like you have a crappy connection. Who's your ISP?

[Red Dog]

what format does the camera shoot, MP4? did you edit it somehow?
it might be better to convert to .mov or H264 before sending to youtube, but they can convert anything so don't know why the res would go down.

second, it better be REALY GOOD  video if you think people want to watch 30 minutes of it.

look at YT support page for possible answers.

It is H264 & MP4. 
As far as the length goes I started to edit & was getting frustrated with learning another new program.
So I listed the "best" times for viewers & left it up to them.

[Red Dog]

Don't confuse a codec like H.264 with an extension like .mp4.  One is a compression algorithm and the other is a container.

There are several videos on YouTube (of course) that give good tutorials on how to upload HD video. 

Are you sure you selected the HD version with the settings when viewing?

And as for why it takes so long to upload...  Most home internet connections are much faster DOWN than UP.  For example, I get 100Mb/sec download speed, but only 8Mb/sec upload.

I'll check out the tutorials I had not even thought of looking for them.
I am not sure about the HD version for viewing so I'll do some checking on that also.

[Red Dog]

Sounds like you have a crappy connection. Who's your ISP?

ISP is Cox business plan.  Honestly I don't know what they advertise as upload speed.

I did notice on you tube when I started the upload it had a message that said something about converting it to "streaming format" for quicker uploads.