Screencasts: Reducing File Size

[claytoncarney]

I often need to make screencasts to document bug reports on GitHub. Unfortunately, GitHub has a limit of 10 MB for video uploads. I have tried the following:

• set canvas to 1280X1080
• set FPS to 10
• set encoder to x264
• set CBR to 600 Kbps

Even with these settings, an 8 second clip is about 700 KB. That gives me less than 2 minutes before I hit the limit.

Is there anything else I could tweak to get the file size down?

 

[R1CH]

Not if you're using CBR. Use CRF or a similar quality based rate control, as that will use very little bandwidth when the content is not changing.