Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @nostr.build servers: This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB. That’s a 97.9% reduction in size! Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture. Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. View quoted note →

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Good info here!
Guy Swann's avatar Guy Swann
Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @nostr.build servers: This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB. That’s a 97.9% reduction in size! Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture. Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. View quoted note →
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Guy Swann's avatar Guy Swann
Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @nostr.build servers: This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB. That’s a 97.9% reduction in size! Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture. Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. View quoted note →
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In handbrake I use “very fast 720P 30 fps” as MP4 with “web optimized” selected. Always gives the best output with lowest data cost, imo. I’ll share the ffmpeg settings too when I’m back to my desktop. It’s in a tiny app I did with Ai so I don’t see the settings often enough to memorize them.
I’ve been using handbrake for what seems like a decade. It’s the perfect example (along with ffmpeg underneath it) of a “simple and just works” application.
would be great, if there was a mobile app, that does this for you.. seems like it'd be useful for anyone recording videos..