How to prepare content to upload

How to prepare the content for uploading in to the platform.

1. We don't reencode and will leave the quality intact. Each re-encode process downgrades the quality. Every platform re-encodes your video, even if you prepare it with recommendation settings from faq page. So how to deal with quality and speed, while keepying the best quality for small file size. 

As you know, each encoding process is a nightmare to the final quality. If there is not a lot of movement, small, sharp details in the video file, you don't need a high bitrate. You don't watch tv from 30cm distance right?

Depending, on content, you may encode your Final (Master exported video) using old, good FFMPEG (Freelly available from Linux to MacOS operating systems. Average speed are enough from 1.5 to 5 Mbps while keepying good quality.

Around 50 min of video you can store in to 1.5-1.7 GB of file. Sounds cool right? 

Use the command in command prompt or in terminal:

ffmpeg -i (input file.mp4) -preset slow -codec:a aac -b:a 256k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 1500k -minrate 500k -maxrate 1500k -bufsize 1000k -vf scale=1:1080 (Output file.mp4)

So for example i want to convert musicvideo.mp4 in c drive and save it in D drive for average 3,5-5mbps file:

ffmpeg -i c:\musicvideo.mp4 -preset slow -codec:a aac -b:a 256k -codec:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 3500k -minrate 350k -maxrate 5000k -bufsize 5000k -vf scale=1:1080 d:\musicvideoupload.mp4