Retaining the best video quality
Good morning. I'm reaching out to a realm that I'm not very familiar with and would like some advice.
So I've recently gotten into recording gaming footage with ShadowPlay. I then use Windows Movie Maker to cut, edit, and incorporate music to make a video. The finished product looks pretty good considering it's shrunken the file size down exponentially (~24 Gb to ~500Mb) and saved as .mp4 format (only options are .mp4 or .wmv in Movie Maker).
I noticed that uploading to YouTube the quality is reduced, even at 1080p. Since my goal is to share the videos with mostly friends and family, I've looked into other options and found MediaFire to be a good channel where they can download the file directly.
Now my question is, would you recommend that I do anything differently? My overall goal is to retain video quality while keeping the file size acceptable. I know there are much more elaborate video editing softwares available but Movie Maker does what I need it to do. The only thing I'd be interested in with a better editing software would if it produced a better quality video.
Thanks!