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so, i'm a total noob when it comes to anything other than watching videos on youtube. a few years ago i successfully posted a few videos of me playing the guitar and that went without a hitch. now, i'm trying to make a series of tutorials on sacred geometry with a digital camera with 12.1 megapixels. when i go to load my video onto youtube it says it will take 400 minutes for it to get on there. i went to some sort of FAQ thing that is on the site, and it told me all this other stuff about frame rate and blah blah blah...

so basically, i'm wondering if there is a straightforward - and preferably free - program that i can acquire that will allow me to adjust settings or resolution or whatever to more easily post videos to youtube.

(i know a lot of the stuff i post doesn't have anything to do with music, but musicians know a lot of random stuff!!)


thanks bunches.

EDIT: and normally i would just leave the computer to do its thing for 400 minutes, but i tried that with one that one took 86 minutes to load and when it had loaded, it told me it was too large. so i increased my upload limit, tried again, and now the video is up, but the video is eleven minutes going twice the speed when it should be 25 minutes and the audio is going normal speed and obviously none of it synced up. also, the bottom half of the video is BLUE. that was about 4 hours, maybe 5 hours of wasted life.