Best Video Size For Uploading To Tubes?
 

Just wondering what size videos should be for uploading to tube sites. For HD video obviously it must be larger in size but I am also noticing some tubes have a 60mb limit to their video sizes they accept. This seems like a very low size/resolution to me!

So let's say you take a 7 minute 'SD' video (720x480). Can you reduce it down to 50mb without losing much quality? For HD video I am assuming you cannot do this and have the video remain "HD".

With so many videos being shot today in HD (and even 4K) why do some tubes still limit uploads to 60mb or less? Seems like the optimal size at that resolution would be like mobile (320), no?

You can always lower the bitrate and change the fps, but I know tubes sites have requirements for valid submissions.

Dang! The reason for this thread. LOL Oh crap.


That's the thing man: some tubes require higher bitrates while others require less than 60mb.

So I am thinking: two versions of each video (one above 60mb, one below 60mb)?

Send them the video in flv format.

OK but the SIZE (mb) would still be about the same yes? This is what happens when I convert the WMV files to either MP4s or FLVs. :(

are these some big tube sites limiting size to 60mb? I mean are their traffic even worth the time making 2 versions of every video? I'm working on a bunch of tube sites and I've only experienced some 200mb file size limit on one of them

I am wondering the same thing. LOL This is with Chameleon and Tube Site Submitter. Many, many of the tubes listed in there have 60 mb limits and they say the best size is 30-40 mb! But this seems totally crazy to me! If you reduce a standard SD 640x480 video down to 45mb you get a 320x240 resolution. insane!

I am finding out about this today. Cannot be accurate and, if it is, then what kind of tubes are these anyway? Set and forget type sites with standard tube scripts not optimized? Weird man.