In a perfect world, you\u2019d be able to upload ultra high-quality videos to your website without having to worry about how large they are. Unfortunately, we don\u2019t live in a perfect world. As such, one of your jobs as a webmaster is to strike a balance between size and quality. You want your videos to be watchable without having to sacrifice a metric ton of bandwidth.<\/p>\n
Here are a few space-saving tips that\u2019ll help you to accomplish just that.<\/p>\n
The first \u2013 and very likely best \u2013 piece of advice l can give is to try cutting down the length of your videos. Watch each video you\u2019re planning to upload carefully \u2013 is there anything which could be cut without hurting the overall message? By making videos shorter, you can cut down how much space they take up without having to worry too much about any other factors.<\/p>\n
Assuming you can\u2019t cut anything out of your videos; your next step is to look into compression software \u2013 my personal recommendation goes to Handbrake<\/a>. This powerful, open-source tool can cut down on file size by as much as 80%<\/a> without any noticeable drop in quality. \u00a0Unfortunately, while it works with a wide range of common audio and video files, it\u2019s not capable of dealing with certain file-types such as .avi. In the event that you need to run handbrake on such files, you\u2019re going to want to use conversion software such as ffmpegx.<\/p>\n Yes, I know I promised that you wouldn\u2019t have to cut down on quality. Bear with me here \u2013 if you do this right, you actually won\u2019t lose any (noticeable) quality. See, although the human eye can perceive frame-rates of well above 120 frames per second, most people won\u2019t notice the difference in quality between 120 and 60, or (depending on what sort of videos you\u2019re uploading) 60 and 30. Experiment a bit \u2013 if you think you can lower your frame-rate without noticeably degrading your video quality then do so.<\/p>\n Pay careful attention to which compression codec you\u2019re using in your video \u2013 it can make a huge difference. Which codecs you can use will depend entirely on the type of video file you\u2019re uploading \u2013 be aware of what\u2019s available to you. Also note that modifying your codec can <\/b>be somewhat risky, as switching from a lossy codec to another lossy codec (or from a lossless to a lossy) can result in a lot of video data being thrown away (and hence could potentially harm <\/b>your video quality). \u00a0Check out this page for a basic description of different codecs and video containers.<\/p>\n Similarly to how changing your codec might save space, you might be able to reduce the size of a video by changing the video container, as well. If the type of file you\u2019re uploading is of no concern, it might be worthwhile \u2013 perhaps as a last resort \u2013 to change the type of file you\u2019re working with. \u00a0While this might have no impact on the size of your video, it could potentially cut down on space a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a perfect world, you\u2019d be able to upload ultra high-quality videos to your website without having to worry about how large they are. Unfortunately, we don\u2019t live in a perfect world. As such, one of your jobs as a webmaster is to strike a balance between size and quality. You want your videos to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-content"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lower The Frame Rate<\/b><\/h2>\n
Change Your Codecs<\/b><\/h2>\n
Modify Your File Type<\/b><\/h2>\n