I want to put a video on the gallery page it’s only 15 sec’s long but it seems to take hours to up load can i compress it or something to make it upload faster?
I am not great with computers so make it easy for me btw it’s a quicktime video…
Ben
Fiddling with QuickTime videos is a little tricky, so this might get complicated. Right then…
You want the RAD Video Tools from here: http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm; the one at the top. Download that, install it, then run the RAD Video Tools program, it should have put a link in the start menu.
Up pops the first intimidating screen. Find the QuickTime file you want to convert in the top half, make sure it’s selected, then click the “Convert a file” button, on the bottom row.
Up pops an even more intimidating window. Check that the filename in the box at the top ends with “.avi”; if not click the “Output Type” button and select “AVI File” from the list.
Click “Convert” on the right edge. That window disappears to be replaced with one that says “0% - Bink Converter” in the title.
In a second or so another window pops up with a “Compressor” box. Choose “DivX 5.0.3 Codec”, assuming you have the DivX codec installed; you should do, given the number of DivX videos people post here.
If you click the “Configure” button another box pops up, in the middle of which is a big slider called “Encoding bitrate”. This controls how compressed the file is. To the left the file will be smaller but the quality will be worse; to the right the file will be larger but the quality will be better. Trial and error is your friend; keep doing it a few times until you find a size that is small enough to upload and download quickly but is still watchable.
Click “OK” a few times and it will start chugging away converting your video. When it says “Done!” voila, in the same directory as the original file there should* be a shiny new .avi file of the same video.
Failing that, wait for John Childs to come along a post an answer people can understand… 
Phil
- Hopefully…
First question is how big is the file?
Uploads to the gallery can be a bit slow. I’m on a cable modem which has a slower upload speed than download speed. When I upload a big file to the gallery it can take a while. Downloads from the gallery are very fast. Uploads can be slow (relatively) and I’m not sure that they even go at my full max possible upload speed.