Is there a way to compress a video for upload to YouTube without

>>60209896
Handbrake?

ffmpeg/handbreak, can't you use google, retard?

>>60209907
Will it create jpeg-like artifacts in the video? I'd hate to upload something that looks like it was recorded with a potato.

>>60209944
Encoding is a three way trade-off.

You can have exactly *two* of the following at once:
• high quality
• small file size
• Fast encode time

>>60209944
Here is my experience with uploading video.

1) uncompressed or lossless compression is around 1-3gb a minute at 30fps at 720x1080 respectively.
2) passing said video through vegas for best quality on an mp4 takes it down to around 1gb every 10 minutes at 720p
3) passing the video through handbrake will halve if not 1/4th the file size spit out by vegas.

in my experience, none of the video has ever come out artifact or noticeably bad in motion, outside of one game called beat hazard. everything you did to that game would cause artifacts out the ass and there was nothing i could do outside of upload lossless which was not an option.

lets put it this way, nothing you do to the video on your side could make it look nearly as bad as youtube will make it on their side.

upload some test clips and see what it does, you biggest enemy is lots of motion.