Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted September 30, 2012 Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 Ok, So I've got my Contour now, took it out at the weekend and got 5 videos, varying in length from 15 to 45 minutes. I've tried uploading the raw video file of a 25 minute video to Facebook and after SEVEN HOURS of "Uploading" the percentage reached 100% and then it just stopped doing anything... So I cancelled it. It took the bloody piss. Does it seriously take that long to upload stuff? Right now I'm finalising an iMovie project so I can upload it to YouTube, but even the finalisation process is taking an hour! Is there some way to compress the files down or something so it doesn't take as long? Also, whilst we're on the subject, is there a maximum video size, or length, for uploading to YouTube? 'Cos my longest video is about 45 minutes and over 3Gb... I'm dreading the wait required to get that one online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschris Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Youtube takes forever mate.....seems to be quicker for me if I plug directly to the router but is all based upon your upload speed etc... I use windows movie maker then process for HD and then youtube it....takes a while due to Youtube crap. not sure of anything faster to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Liam Porter Posted September 30, 2012 Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 Not sure about limits, but it won't like a 3GB upload. What format are you using and what quality/video size? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters TPI Posted September 30, 2012 Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 i think the first couple of vid's are limted to 15 min's can't remember exactly though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Liam Porter Posted September 30, 2012 Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 i think the first couple of vid's are limted to 15 min's can't remember exactly though They are, I remember now. First ones, until you get so many views or something are limited to 15 minutes (used to be 10 minutes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted September 30, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 Wow, well that's bloody lucky then, 'cos with editing I managed to cut the video I'm uploading now down to 14:53 or something haha. Gonna have a hard time cutting the others down to less than 15 minutes though... I'm filming in 720p and I don't know the answers to your other questions lol. What if I become a YouTube partner? Could the videos be longer then? 'Cos I'm thinking of adding a new airsoft video every week, maybe one each for both my channel and the society channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters TPI Posted September 30, 2012 Supporters Share Posted September 30, 2012 Well when i get GroundBreakerTV off the Floor i'll slip you some advertising in their that'll get you some view's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 1, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 1, 2012 Well here's a link to the 480p video I put up: I've just edited it to make it 720p and it might go up to 1080p as well, I'm not sure, but the HD version will be up by tonight. Edit: Just learned you can verify your YouTube account to be able to upload videos longer than 15 minutes, so I've done it =D So now I'll be able to add the 30 or so minute defence game from the trench fields on Saturday. Woot. I'll see you in 5 million years when I'm done editing and the 6-9Gb HD file has been uploaded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschris Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 How are you finding the camera then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 1, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 1, 2012 I really love it. I'm kinda bummed out by the fact it doesn't seem to be able to film at 60fps, but the quality is nice, the view distance is surprisingly good and I'm loving watching the footage back. My only complaint is that because I had to use one of the adhesive mounts to stick it to my helmet, it's quite a lot higher and to the right of my face, which means the video often can't see what I'm looking at when going around a left hand corner and things like that. My helmet straps also aren't good enough to hold it properly still, so two of the 5 videos I took are quite crap because it looks like I was staring at the sky the whole time because my helmet slipped back. But when you get it right, the videos are awesome. I just hope people enjoy watching them as much as I do, 'cos obviously I took it, so there's going to be some bias in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschris Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 No mate, definately a good watch and well worth the footage...so much so im probably going to give mansfield a go at some point. I have got used to switching mine off and back on frequesntly to create more smaller clips for easier editing etc.. then if it does move from a prominent view then its not too much hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuki Yamamoto Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 What editing software are you using for your videos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters TPI Posted October 1, 2012 Supporters Share Posted October 1, 2012 i use the actual Contour software and then Window's Movie Maker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschris Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I keep well away from contours software.....darn thing...i just take files in the virgin format and put them in a file and begin editing in movie maker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuki Yamamoto Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 i use the actual Contour software and then Window's Movie Maker Where did you get the camera from and how much was it? Hope you dont mind me asking!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters TPI Posted October 1, 2012 Supporters Share Posted October 1, 2012 got it from some german sounding place off of Play and it cost me £210 with an extra 32GB card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuki Yamamoto Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 got it from some german sounding place off of Play and it cost me £210 with an extra 32GB card Cheers Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 1, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 1, 2012 I got mine about a week ago from Amazon for £137 and a Samsung, Series 10, 32Gb Micro SD card for 20 something quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAcorn Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 If you need help on editing vids for youtube then let me know. I've been doing it (for gaming at least) for over 2 years I subbed to your channel too by the way. Never used WMM before but I started off using iMovie. It's okay I guess but the compression algorithms are SO SLOW! a 10 minute H.264 video (that was the time limit back when I started) would take half an hour or more to render. I upgraded to Adobe Premiere Pro and it almost does it in real time Plus the H.264 compression is awesome and cuts down the size drastically at good quality, since it is Blu Ray format after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 2, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 2, 2012 Cheers for the offer and the sub I think for the level of editing I'm planning on I'll manage though. I don't really plan on doing anything more fancy than I've done in the current video. If videos get long enough and I don't want to cut them down to detract from the overall feel, then I might add highlights to the description and mark them with time links, so people can skip to certain parts by choosing from a list in the description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheriffHD Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Good render settings (not sure about movie maker, ive made sure that it doesnt even get space on my HDD) Id advise that unless you have a really fast internet connection with more than 1mebabyte a second upload speeds that you stick to 720p render settings, if i remember correctly as well, recording at 60fps with most action cameras limit the videos to 720 any way or 30fps at 1080. Ive done a fair few videos so for me I like to record at 720 at 60fps as it means that you can slow footage down at certain points for that dramatic effect while still keeping the footage looking smooth. it also means that you can track the footage to stabilise it a bit, which for a helmet cam is a good process for editing video because you get that horrible shaky cam that looks like it should be from the blare witch project. Any way, render settings; make sure pixel format is 32-bit floating point (full range) Field order - i keep this setting to None by default which means its progressive WxH 1280x720 motion blur Gaussian FPS 30 (you may capture at 60fls, but when you render it out you want it at 30fps, this is because once you have uploaded it to youtube, youtube wont play any faster than 30fps. so this will half the file size) Audio stereo sameple rate - 32,000 Hz Bit depth - 16 Codec AVC/AAC .mp4 is a good format to use for uploading to youtube. I also normally insure that varible bit rate is checked and set to around 14,000,000 bps with these settings, you will look at about1.5gb per 30minutes of video, you can compress it, but when you compress a file you lose quality as well, so it makes rendering at 720p pointless if you end up compressing it down to a 480p quality any way. sorry for the long reply. also A quick side note, I'm not saying any of you are dumb enough to do it, but i actually had to tell my friend this (to which he spent ages trying to argue his error as well which was fun) taking video captured at 720p and then rendering it out to 1080, does not make it 1080p, it doesn't make the image any better, it just makes the file size much larger than it needs to be for the same quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 22, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 22, 2012 I had thought about trying that haha, but I figure it's impossible to make a video higher quality than it recorded at lol. I probably am that stupid though... Except I'd prefer to call it "not being computery" I'll have a tinker with the settings next time I upload something, but I think the ones I had last time were largely the same as you outlined. I'm limited to recording at 30fps in 720p anyway, so I don't need to worry about any of the 60fps, slow mo related stuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Ed, you haven't put any video up from 13th Oct at skirmish yet have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters Airsoft-Ed Posted October 25, 2012 Author Supporters Share Posted October 25, 2012 No, I didn't really enjoy myself much that day, footage wasn't that great. I've not even watched it all back myself, yet. Might upload it at some point in the future, or make a highlights video or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Oh thats a shame, what didn't you enjoy about the day? Anyway if you do decide to upload it let me know as I'd be interested to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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