Kickstarter is going to need to do this anyways to make the experience more efficient for viewers. Don’t worry about losing quality by downgrading the file size.

When you download a video from YouTube, it will automatically make your video small enough to be uploaded to Kickstarter. Youtube is an easy and convenient way to adjust the Kickstarter Video Format.

Then, select the drop-down button next to “edit” and click “Download MP4.

Next, click on “Video Manager” as seen in the bottom right-hand corner.

Upload your video to YouTube and change the view from “Public” to “Private”.

Simply go to and you should automatically be signed into your account. If you didn't already know, you should have a YouTube Channel that is linked to your Google account email address. Here is how to adjust your video format using YouTube: One way is done with YouTube, and the other way can be done with Adobe Media Encoder.

There are two quick ways to turn your Kickstarter video format into an MP4 file. MP4 is recommended because it will provide better video quality than WMV and more versatility than MOV. Your Kickstarter video format needs to be in MOV, WMV, or MP4 in order to be uploaded to your campaign. Uncompressed size around 600mb.Are You Struggling to Upload Your Kickstarter Video Because it Isn’t in the Right Format?Īre you looking to make a Kickstarter video and want to be prepared? Warning: files are compressed, size in area of 100mb. Google has a lot of information about it. We receive many question about timestamp format used in this dataset. Also from December 2015 JSON file is in JSON streaming format. This yields more results in the datasets, but possible duplication where projects are listed in multiple categories. Note: from December 2015 we modified the collection approach to go through all sub-categories instead of only top level categories. But recent and active projects are always included. This limits the amount of historic projects we can get in a single scrape run. Note: from April 2015 we noticed that Kickstarter started limiting how many projects user can view in a single category. Datasets are available from the following scrape dates: 2023 From March 2016 we run this data crawl once a month. We have a scraper robot which crawls all Kickstarter projects and collects data in CSV and JSON formats.

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