How to prepare Videos for uploading to Video Sites. VIDEO SITES have different requirements for what videos they allow.  For example, Youtube allows only 10 Minutes Clips, (up to 2GB).  Yet other sites, allow longer videos, yet limit you to only 100MB.  So to put the videos in the right format, you'll need to use a Video Conversion Program.  The one that I use the Windows Media Encoder located at this site.  It can both Chop up videos into 10 minutes segments, or it can compress a video down to 100 MB. But it only makes WMV files.  Here are some Video Sites to upload them to...YouTube.com, video.Yahoo.com, www.MSN.com, www.KU6.com, www.wangyou.com www.GodTube.com, www.Mofile.com, www.5show.com, www.ifilm.com, www.Metacafe.com, www.AtomFilms.com, www.imeem.com, www.gofish.com, www.veoh.com, www.livevideo.com, www.yikers.com www.odeo.com, www.break.com, www.stupidvideos.com, www.grouper.com, www.blinkx.com, www.woaide.com, www.purevideo.com, www.jumpcut.com, www.marblejars.com, www.MySpace.com 1. Chopping up long videos into 10 Minutes Segments for Youtube: First load the Windows Media Encoder. (Close the New Session, Wizard Dialog Box) Next open the Properties Dialog Box In this box, Select SOURCE FROM = FILE, and BROWSE to the Video File. Then Click the MARK IN/OUT button. Once you Click the MARK IN/OUT button, another Windows will come up, that allows you to choose what TIME portion of the Video you want to get.  I choose to start at 0:00:00:000 and end at 00:10:00:000, so I only want to take the first 10 minutes of this video. If I wanted the 2nd 10 minutes segment, I would have entered, 00:10:00:000 and 00:20:00:000.  Once you enter these numbers, hit OK. The click the OUTPUT tab, check only ENCODE TO FILE, and Choose the location of where to put the resulting Chopped file.  (I also check the INDEX FILE option) Next, goto the COMPRESSION tab, and Choose these setting.     FILE ARCHIVE,     MEDIUM QUALITY VIDEO (VBR 75),     CD QUALITY AUDIO (CBR) Since Youtube can handle up to 2GB videos, if you want to choose a higher quality setting, you can.     FILE ARCHIVE,     HIGH QUALITY VIDEO (VBR 95)     HIGH QUALITY AUDIO (VBR 75) It is not necessary, but if you want to set the ATTRIBUTES, go to the Attributes Tab and fill in the boxes. At this point, you can start the ENCODING, to make the video.  It won't edit your original video, just make a new 10 Minute Segment of it.  The video should be ready soon.  Once it is finished, you'll need to run this again for the 2nd 10 minutes segment. But all you'll need to change is the MARK IN/OUT time, and Hit START ENCODING again.     2. Compressing Videos down to 100MB. First load the Windows Media Encoder. (Close the New Session, Wizard Dialog Box) Next open the Properties Dialog Box In this box, Select SOURCE FROM = FILE, and BROWSE to the Video File. The click the OUTPUT tab, check only ENCODE TO FILE, and Choose the location of where to put the resulting Chopped file.  (I also check the INDEX FILE option) It is not necessary, but if you want to set the ATTRIBUTES, go to the Attributes Tab and fill in the boxes. Next, goto the COMPRESSION tab, and Choose these setting.     FILE ARCHIVE,     MEDIUM QUALITY VIDEO (VBR 75),     CD QUALITY AUDIO (CBR) There are the setting that will determine how many MB the file size will be. So you may need to changes these to get a smaller video. But if the resulting video is still too big, then you need to cut it into pieces with the MARK IN/OUT feature on the SOURCE tab. (It doesn't need to be in 10 Minute segments, you'll have to experiment to determine how many minutes will make a 100 MB file. It is not necessary, but if you want to set the ATTRIBUTES, go to the Attributes Tab and fill in the boxes. At this point, you can start the ENCODING, to make the video.  It won't edit your original video, just make a new Video, hopefully around 100 MB.  The video should be ready soon.   If the video is too big, or too small, you'll need to change the COMPRESSION Levels or the MARK IN/OUT features.     NOW GET OUT THERE AND WIN SOULS FOR JESUS!