Help with down loading video to YouTube

[FlFlash]

Okay my darling Dink was sweet enough to purchase a video camera and get it mounted in the racecar. They incar videotaped the race at New Symrna last Sat nite for me. I've downloaded the video from the camera to my laptop and would now like to put portions of them on YouTube, some of it's really cool.

I need to edit the video down to less than 15 minute segments is there an easy economical way to do this without spending an inordinate amount of time doing it? Also some of the short clips ( less than 5 minutes ) I've attempted to directly load onto Youtube why do they take 1 1/2 hours to load? Am I doing something wrong or is this normal?

By the way all the video was shot on a GoPro Hero 2 MP4 most of it's in car footage with a few short clips from the pits.

Appreciate any help, I've never attempted this before and don't want to mess up and loose the footage.

 

[Magnethead]

windows movie maker should work for the basics. I use Sony Vegas for my stuff.

Gopro files are huge = long upload times. I encode mine at 4MB/s or so to keep file size down. 4MB/s @ 70 seconds = 280 MB @ 75 KB/sec upload = 3823 seconds = 64 minutes. And that's about how long they take. If I'm doing long clips (2 minutes or longer) I drop to 3 MB/sec to keep file size down further.

I use an 8GB card, I usually record at 720@60fps for most of our shots. Only rare occasions do I use 720@30fps to save space or 1080 for quality.

I have a mac desktop and windows laptop, I edit the videos right after we get home, and leave the laptop on overnight to do the uploading. Also by uploading at night, I get better upload speed...usually around 100 KB/sec or so.

 

[#17D500winner]

windows movie maker should work for the basics. I use Sony Vegas for my stuff.

Gopro files are huge = long upload times. I encode mine at 4MB/s or so to keep file size down. 4MB/s @ 70 seconds = 280 MB @ 75 KB/sec upload = 3823 seconds = 64 minutes. And that's about how long they take. If I'm doing long clips (2 minutes or longer) I drop to 3 MB/sec to keep file size down further.

I use an 8GB card, I usually record at 720@60fps for most of our shots. Only rare occasions do I use 720@30fps to save space or 1080 for quality.

I have a mac desktop and windows laptop, I edit the videos right after we get home, and leave the laptop on overnight to do the uploading. Also by uploading at night, I get better upload speed...usually around 100 KB/sec or so.

Are you uploading to Mars?

 

[FlFlash]

Thanks for the help Magnethead, after playing around with them for awhile I downloaded a video cutter from Muvee called Turbo Video Cutter. Works pretty well and is still relatively simple to use if nothing else it allows me to edit down to what i want before downloading to Youtube which cuts down on the download times somewhat.
Sad that a 30 second video takes 5 minutes to download

BTW I have the GoPro HD Hero2, 16GB card and have been shooting at 720 60fps.