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Economical Video Recording
I tried to use the video function built into my phone camera today, but a 3 minute song took nearly 20 megs.
What's an app that is much more economical, memory wise? I know people can't be uploading 20 meg files on YouTube every day. There has to be something better. What am I missing?
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It was apparently an mp4... I deleted it, but the only other video I have on my phone is an mp4, 12 seconds and 4.7 megs. Since I never did anything but change the camera to video, I can only presume the song would have also been an mp4.
I'll look and see if I can change the default and which might be the least of a memory hog.
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20mb for 3 minutes is an ultra low bitrate.
I just recorded a 3 and a half minutes song on my smartphone. The original file with six minutes has 900 mb. Going down to 280mb after cutting and converting into youtube's prefered settings. For 20mb I'm gessing you recorded in 240p or 120p. Lower than that and you'll only see pixels. The only way to get an even lower size is by recording audio only in 128kbps or something like that. You're going to need either a new phone or a DSLR camera. Or getting an SD card for the phone if the HD is expandable. Most of them come with at least 8gb. Just leave the upload window open and delete the file afterwards. There are no turnarounds... You should be able to upload a 20mb file in under 10 minutes. Last edited by Vindellama; 01-21-2018 at 08:41 AM. |
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I should add that your concern about a 20 MB file may be misplaced. I took a look at the files I upload to my YouTube site and the last one was 570 MB. At 4.5 minutes, that's 126 MB per minute or just over 2 MB per second.
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I've been putting up some quick videos of one pass through a tune form to help me remember tunes I like to do. I shoot them on my inexpensive digital camera in 640 by 480 size and upload them to Youtube.
The files end up being about a minute in length and around 100 mb, I think they are a bit smaller once Youtube does its own compression during uploading. |
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Nothing. That's really quite small for a 3 minute video.
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I'm only questioning about YouTube as speculation, wondering how they would use such large files, so let's put that aside. I may have misdirected you in thinking I wanted to upload to YouTube. I simply tried to send the video to a friend as an attachment on Gmail and Gmail responded saying the file was too large. That's how I realized the size. If I record and my Android phone defaults to mp4, I wonder if it can be exported into a different file format that's more economical?
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E-mail as you discovered is an entirely different situation, and not suitable for most video files If E-mailing a video is something you may be occasionally doing. then you might think about getting a free 'Drop Box" account then you can e-mail the link to the dropbox file and the recipient can download the file . so MP4 should be be fine for that.
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Otherwise if you want to share with friends you'll need to upload to facebook, instagram, or youtube and send them the link. |
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I transfer large audio & video projects with clients all the time & use services like Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer.com - depending on the client.
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