To make raw video and audio suitable for YouTube, Facebook and DVDs, you have to encode them into one of the common video formats. Your computer does that by performing many calculations for each frame of video, and how quickly that happens depends on your central processing unit (CPU) and how much random access memory (RAM) you have. The advent of high-definition video and a new generation of video codecs means your old Pentium 4 simply can’t work fast enough to encode your HD home movies. However, there are several ways you can speed up your video encodes. Writer Bio
