video conversion for YouTube upload

cray_momez wrote on 9/13/2007, 7:45 AM
Hello --
Hope this e-mail finds you all well.
I wonder if someone might be able to help me with the following.

I'm having a very difficult time converting a WMV video to MP4 so that I can upload it to YouTube. The project was created in Sony Vegas Video 3.0 and runs about four and a half minutes. I have Windows XP.

I can't upload the .WMV file because it exceeds YouTube's limit of 100 MB...so I've been using SmartSoft Video Converter to try to convert it to an mp4 file. I got about 77 % of the way through the conversion process twice last night before receiving the message,
"WriteVideoErrors." This after more than an hour into the conversion process.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can do this? Should I be using some other video conversion software? It's getting very frustrating. I don't think it should be this difficult.

Thank you for your time, consideration and help. I really appreciate it.

Appreciatively yours,
Cray Momez