Video tech help

[ktm300]

I would be grateful if someone could educate me on how to speed up the process of getting video from my camera to the cloud. Currently using youtube which takes way too long for me. The camera has proprietary software from which I import the video to my windows 7 laptop. Only Apple device in my home is child's iphone. I checked out Vimeo and would be willing to pay for their no wait conversion if it works. Need a basic, easy, and fast way to compress video to speed upload (one product recommendation better than many so I don't have to choose). You can tell by my question that I am starting from an ignorant position. Just want to divide by at least 4 the time it is taking me to do this seemingly easy task. Thanks.