Hi Bruce

Get yourself a cheap video editor like VSDC that will properly format your video to YouTube specs.

Richard concentrates on making videos that will attract a larger audience and in keeping with the current mission of the site.

you said it yourself; you are the first to post here in 8 years.

1 gigabyte for a 10-minute video is not out of the ordinary in this day and age.  Below are YouTube's recommended bit rates for various resolutions and frame rates (see picture below).  At 12Mbps, as recommended for a 1080p/60fps video, a 10-minute video would be 900 megabytes (0.9 gigabyte).  Content plays a factor too: a fast-moving, detail-rich video would have a much bigger file size than a video of the same length and bit rate that shows only a simple, static object.

To reduce video file size, if you shoot videos on your phone, set a lower res and/or frame rate on your phone's camera app and settings.  If you capture videos on your PC like Richard does with his videos, set a lower res and frame rate in your video capture software.

If you've already made the video and want to reduce its size, you need to "re-encode" the video to a lower res and frame rate with a video-encoding software.  This is the toughest route to take because re-encoding is time-consuming and the software may be hard to use and/or expensive for the average users.  Reducing the video specs would also reduce picture quality, naturally.  You wouldn't want to spend 40 minutes (the estimated time to re-encode a 10-minute video) only to end up getting a degraded video.

Download https://handbrake.fr/ or https://www.ffmpeg.org/ and play about with those settings.

I'll try and find the config I use to compress.

Did you download the YouTube app on your phone? Is there still the creator one?
Did you try uploading it from there? It usually handles the compression etc for you.

Here's the easy way... Upload the video to YouTube. Let them finish processing it. They will compress it keeping most of the original quality. Then download the file they create if you want to use it elsewhere.

If you download your own video, YouTube only lets you download it at up to 720p.  Richard records his videos at 720s so this is not a problem for him.  But if your original video is 1080p or higher, you can only download at 720p at most.  To download at the original resolution, you need some third-party, quasi-legal downloading utility.

Much appreciated! Will work on hammering it out more this weekend. I never did anything but watch YouTube and when i looked at the file size i was going to upload i figured i must have messed up real bad somewhere! And my explanation of what i am doing in the video sounds more like a troll from under a bridge... But that's all OK, especially if going through this will start teaching me how this is done!

Once again, everyone, i greatly appreciate your support.

Hmmmmm. 8 years... I was still living in Colorado Springs back then...

Oh, and everything is still on my phone-

@ Mr. Shamma - Downloaded and shall look into, thank you!

@ Mr. Yip - Wow. Well at least i am now relieved a bit; i really thought (compared to the movie video i have) that i should be trying to get to a file size about one ninth of what i have. That was real confusing...

@ Mr. Hedley - YouTube app? Hmmm, oh sure, the YouTube app (i type as thinking "must go look for and download something called the YouTube app")-

@ Mr. Rost - TY, i'll go to the site again and look for how!

and i  probably should do some work today, bills need to be paid... Ah, the realities of life-