Need software to convert 17GB animation file to Youtube uploadable size

[sammy]

Hi Guys,

Good Day!

I need software to convert 17GB animation file to Youtube uploadable size WITHOUT losing its color and quality.

File is having less 2 minute runtime.

I used Format factory tool to do so , it brought 17GB file down to 15MB but lost it's color and quality details from it.

I guess if any software could convert it to 50MB to 100MB size then it might keeps it's color and quality.


Do you know any of those. Please suggest.

Thanks!

 

[natr0n]

https://handbrake.fr/

 

[RejZoR]

Hi Guys,

Good Day!

I need software to convert 17GB animation file to Youtube uploadable size WITHOUT losing its color and quality.

File is having less 2 minute runtime.

I used Format factory tool to do so , it brought 17GB file down to 15MB but lost it's color and quality details from it.

I guess if any software could convert it to 50MB to 100MB size then it might keeps it's color and quality.


Do you know any of those. Please suggest.

Thanks!

Can you tell us more details? What format is recording made in? I'm guessing it's some sort of lossless encoded video. FormatFactory probably used too aggressive settings by default (if you don't change them). Adjusting bitrate and resolution should help imo.

 

[EzioAs]

Youtube would still compress it again afterwards if I'm not mistaken, losing the video's colours and details.

 

[RCoon]

Anything that can be set to Constant Quality. That includes Handbrake/XMedia Recode etc. Just set it to that and set the quality to 15-18 and select a Film preset to maintain the colours.

 

[sammy]

https://handbrake.fr/

I downloaded this software it takes input files only in .mp4 or .mkv ,mine 17GB file is in .avi extension

 

[cdawall]

Well that sucks. Luckily you have the ability to use google. I recommend googling .avi to .mp4 converter and that should compress it more than enough to upload it to youtube.

 

[RCoon]

I downloaded this software it takes input files only in .mp4 or .mkv ,mine 17GB file is in .avi extension

Download Xmedia Recode. It may not look as pretty, but its damn near identical to Handbrake's backbone. Go for the MP4 custom preset, on the video tab set it to Constant Quality.

Play around with settings for better conversion.

 

[sammy]

this is what happening to my animation after convert :- (

Download Xmedia Recode. It may not look as pretty, but its damn near identical to Handbrake's backbone. Go for the MP4 custom preset, on the video tab set it to Constant Quality.

Play around with settings for better conversion.

Let me try it!

Well that sucks. Luckily you have the ability to use google. I recommend googling .avi to .mp4 converter and that should compress it more than enough to upload it to youtube.

I don't wan to lose quality thats my concern.

 

[qubit]

You can't use lossy compression on a file and not lose quality and the more you compress the worse it gets. The best you can hope for is a tool that allows various compression parameters to be tweaked so you get the best subjective result. It can take a lot of time doing this, too.

 

[cdawall]

You are compressing the file you will loose quality period.

 

[sammy]

output extension is .mp4

(Really Guys, if I had low watt Intel NUC, I would have kept it ON whole night uploading 11GB file.)

 

[RejZoR]

You'll have to use VirtualDub with H.264 or even H.265 codec, fine tune it and don't be stingy with bitrate. Bitrate is what gets you with colors and details. Also make sure resolution remains the same as original.

Most encoders can project an end file size depending on used settings so you can sort of predict the end results based on selected settings.

 

[sammy]

How I created my animation

1. First created frames in corel draw > print screen them and saved them as .png
2. Used Gif maker to make .gif file of frames.
3. Used online-convert.com site to convert to Gif to MPEG 1 format video file
4. Used Virtual dub to merge Video file and Sound file to create 11GB of file.

You'll have to use VirtualDub with H.264 or even H.265 codec, fine tune it and don't be stingy with bitrate. Bitrate is what gets you with colors and details. Also make sure resolution remains the same as original.

Most encoders can project an end file size depending on used settings so you can sort of predict the end results based on selected settings.

After I used Virtual Dub , it still remains fine with color but while compressing it loses its color.

Download Xmedia Recode. It may not look as pretty, but its damn near identical to Handbrake's backbone. Go for the MP4 custom preset, on the video tab set it to Constant Quality.

Play around with settings for better conversion.

It's really appreciable that after converting 11GB file using
Xmedia Recode to 6.5MB video file it still holds the text sharpness and only loses its actual color.

 

[RCoon]

It's really appreciable that after converting 11GB file using
Xmedia Recode to 6.5MB video file it still holds the text sharpness and only loses its actual color.

What settings?

 

[RejZoR]

If you compress a 17GB file down to 6.5MB, I don't think you're doing something right. It just doesn't make any sense you could achieve such size difference on something that isn't mostly a static image. I don't know what kind of animation you have, but from 17GB, to keep decent quality, I'm projecting a size of around 1GB so that image quality loss is minimal while decreasing size dramatically.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I'd upload the AVI to YouTube and let YouTube deal with the conversions. I uploaded an AVI to YouTube before and it said unknown format while uploading. It still managed to make it work after the upload was complete.

AVI is just a container file: it's what is inside that matters.


Edit: GIF...why not try a service like https://cloudconvert.com/gif-to-mp4 The MPEG1 in that AVI has no compression and it's probably running at 60 frames per second. It only needs to be 30 frames per second and using a different codec (like MP4) should cut the size down to tiny.

 

[sammy]

What settings?

 

[RCoon]

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Try this

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Also, change Framerate. 30 should be sufficient.

50000 for bitrate is the reason why it doesn't look very good. Your current bitrate is something like 1,133,333,333. You said you want 50 MB, multiply by 8 to get bits: 400 Mb. Divide by 120 to get bits per second = 3,333,333 bits per second. I'm not saying that's the value you should use, just putting into context how small 50,000 is.

 

[Octopuss]

How can two minutes of any video take 17GB? :-O

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

How I created my animation

1. First created frames in corel draw > print screen them and saved them as .png
2. Used Gif maker to make .gif file of frames.
3. Used online-convert.com site to convert to Gif to MPEG 1 format video file
4. Used Virtual dub to merge Video file and Sound file to create 11GB of file.

Ha, I tried something like this eons ago, basically you have to start from step 1, saving them as .png. Open up the files and resave them as that smallest size possible that will keep color integrity. Keep in mind, its easier to blow up and expand an image than to shrink one. I think Youtube stream size is 480x320, might even be smaller, then it tries to convert that to 720p.

Also make sure you pre-filter your sound and convert it to a stream format before merging them.

Now if you want to go about it the lonnng way, install streaming software like OBS, set it up to capture the window that your animation plays in, and while you are test streaming, hit record (OBS might have changed a bit so that you can record directly too). You will record in a streamable size file much smaller than trying to convert bit for bit.

 

[RejZoR]

If you ever worked with uncompressed video, you'd know

 

[FordGT90Concept]

How can two minutes of any video take 17GB? :-O

1920 * 1080 * 3 bytes color data * 30 frames per second * 91 seconds = 16,982,784,000 bytes (17 GB)

 

[sammy]

1920 * 1080 * 3 bytes color data * 30 frames per second * 91 seconds = 16,982,784,000 bytes (17 GB)

My gif file contains 493 frames with 50KB size for each frame, gif to video results in smaller file size but merging that file with audio hits 17GB