So you may look at our 512MB upload limit and question how you can get a good looking 10 minute long 1080p file in there, its actually really easy. It looks fantastic and you can use these files to upload to pretty much any site out there allowing you top get over an hour of video into a 3GB file unlocking your potential across the net! And it looks good. We will give you the 1080P and 720p commands here too.

1. Download this version of ffmpeg: //archive.org/details/ffmpeg_202307
2. Extract it to drive c: on your PC (actually place the ffmpeg IN THE ROOT OF DRIVE C:)
3. Place your Video File in the FFMPEG folder with the executable
4. Open “Command Prompt” using the windows search bar
5. Type CD .. and press enter
6. Type CD .. and press enter again
7. Type CD FFMPEG
8. You should now be in c:\ffmpeg. If you type “DIR” and press enter you should see your files, if you see folder labelled ffmpeg instead of a list of files, just type “CD FFMPEG” and press enter again, this happens sometimes. But remember your video and executables should be in the same folder as each other
9. Paste the following command
   

   “ffmpeg -i YOURFILE.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 27 -b:v 2300k -b:a 128k -vf scale=1920:1080 -preset placebo YOURFILE-crf27.mp4”

   Replacing the words YOURFILE with the actual name of your file (its important to keep that -CRF27 ON the end of the second file name to prevent conflicts)

10. Wait, for your file

So you may be wondering, how this file looks almost exactly like the file you put in but is at least half the size and in some cases up to 90% smaller! Well the answer is that when we encode using Premier or Power director, the machines kind of rush. You see this took a little time, probably longer that when you made it in your previous application, but it had No GUI, Thats because we told it at all costs aim for optimal Video quality for that size, so essentially the computer worked harder to give a better result.
Enjoy and remember that if you are struggling with the upload limits on places like iwantclips or manyvids, This gets 10 Minutes of 1080p typically under 400MB, so it should solve the issue there too.

If you want 720p use the following command:

“ffmpeg -i YOURFILE.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 27 -b:v 1700k -b:a 128k -vf scale=1280:720 -preset placebo YOURFILE-crf27.mp4”

For the absolute best Size over quality Video for cambunny :

“ffmpeg -i YOURFILE.mp4 -c:v libx264 -crf 20 -b:v 2000k -b:a 128k -vf scale=1024:576 -r 23 -preset placebo YOURFILE-crf20.mp4”

This one is incredibly small and looks amazing on the site.

Its saying “file not found” or “no such file” when i run the command, why?
You cant have spaced in the filename, so if your file name is “FILE NAME ONE.MP4” Change it to “FILE-NAME-ONE.MP4”
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