Compressing Your Video

How to Compress Your Video for YVXN 

First of all, it is important to stress that making a compressed vesrion of your video - even if it is hi-quality - is not a substitute for a tape or digital master. Once a video is compressed, the filesize becomes smaller which means there is less detailed information about your movie contained in the file. There are lots of ways to compress video and there are lots of ways a video can be compressed. The results are what matters. If you are publishing your work on a vlog, or at web-video hosting sites, like archive.org, or blip.tv (to be viewed on the web), you will want to make smaller files that may be a lower resolution than you would want to be broadcast on television. Even if you don't care, most television stations do! What we will talk about here is how to compress a video for file transfer without sacrificing quality, so that it can be aired on TV or screened live. As a result, the files you will make with the information we post here are not intended for vlogging or sending via email. Let's get started.