Become blog of the weekend: answer a simple Youtube question

On by LinkyLove

Wolfbernz is blog of the weekend and so can you if you can answer this simple question:

Which Freeware Video Editor to use
to edit and upload a perfect youtube video?

YouTube Question

I made my first youtube video about how to draw a rose but I need some improvements:

rose youtube for improvement

  • I would love to cut off the "empty top part" (20% of not used blank space)
  • the youtube quality should be better
  • the time to download the video should be faster
  • the red website name should be clearly readable (as you can see, it’s impossible to read now)

So my question is:
how do I solve the above problems using a freeware Video Editor?

I guess I am looking for a freeware Video Editor where I can:

  • crop my video (made with a rectangular Canon camera but I want to cut of the top to get a square video)
  • put an overlay title on it that shows during the whole video
  • resize it to 320×240 (as they say that’s the ideal Youtube format?)
  • save it in the best quality possible before uploading to Youtube, yet in the smallest up-loadable format (30Mb seems to upload still with my connection)

For the above video, I used Windows Movie Maker, but how do I:

  • crop with it
  • save a video to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format.

According to Youtube: videos saved with the following settings convert and display the best:

  • MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format
  • 320×240 resolution
  • MP3 audio
  • 30 FPS

(MPEG4??? what kind of format is that anyways?)

Which free Video Editor saves into MPEG4 and does all the above?

Thanks and don’t forget to smell the roses!

how to draw a rose

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