Plea For Uploading Help

Since I have corresponded individually with a number of fellow Hamster members regarding my frustration over being unable to upload my collection of both amateur and professional porn on VHS tape, I thought I might summarize the discussion here to avoid further repetition and invite further comment and, hopefully, technical advice. My collection numbers in the hundreds of tapes and many hundreds of hours of running time. I also own pornography on DVD. I have commercial titles going back to the advent of the VHS format (and even some in Betamax!) and complete libraries of amateur tapes that I bought from classified advertisers in the now-defunct line of Odyssey Group swinger magazines a decade ago and more. This includes some who have become both Internet celebrities and legends like "Jan B", "Hotwife Laura", "Jamie" from Chicago, "Samantha", "Angela/Victoria", "Tracey C.", "Lynn Carroll" and her friend, "Baltimore Karen", "Christina Noir", "Gangbang Gloria", "Dagny", "Bob & Sass", "Nasty Linda Riley", "St. Louis Kim", etc. For those who know who I'm talking about, those names require no further identification. Unfortunately, I'm not very computer literate, being lucky enough just to be able to point and click to masturbate and save videos here and elsewhere. But I still wanted to enter the spirit of things and contribute from my own vast archive as one way to thank those who have generously shared their own libraries and promoted my own pleasure. To that end, in early summer, 2011, I purchased from my local PC Direct chain store a product specifically recommended by them to address the sort of application I had in mind (without expressly naming Hamster, of course...). Called "Dazzle", it is a combination hardware and software package meant to facilitate everything connected with the conversion and uploading of analogue content on VHS tape to digital files on an Internet site like Hamster. If you want more details, you can find information about it online, using "Dazzle" as a search term. The hardware component interfaces between a VCR/DVD player and a CPU. The software component is an AVID editing package that does the rest in a tripartite process consisting of data capture, editing and output. My initial experiment with all of this was encouraging when I successfully created an online file comprising five minutes of an amateur tape, but ultimately discouraging when I tried to upload that to Hamster using one of the site's prescribed codecs (I hope I'm using the right terms). I immediately blew Hamster's file capacity limit with just that five-minute excerpt. This is where I still remain stymied--an apparent problem of file compression (about which I admit I still understand precious little). The AVID editiing component of Dazzle appears to possess no metaphorical "dial" by which one can adjust the compression of a digital file to match the uploading requirements of the site to which one wishes to transfer it. The only means of doing that that I can discern is through the selection of a codec (eg., wmv--which I used--etc.) in which to transmit it as output. Yet, again, I tried one of those specified by Hamster to no avail. As I say, this whole effort has left me frustrated and angry, both because I have been unable to share any of my personal inventory and because I don't know what the problem is. Given my degree of computer literacy, it may well be my own human error, and yet Dazzle was promoted as a fool-proof, all-in-one solution to just the task I wanted to accomplish. I have seen uploaded videos on Hamster of more than one hour in length, but I don't know they were put there. So, I invite anyone who thinks they know how to solve this conundrum and is willing to share their expertise with me to respond to this blog post or contact me directly. The potential satisfaction from a successful outcome to my problem can only be mutual!