Make videos smaller with a lower resolution and quality, or pick a target size such as 25 MB for email. Output: MP4 or WebM.
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Email is nearly always the limit: plenty of servers refuse attachments somewhere between ten and twenty-five megabytes, and your recipient's ceiling counts just as much as yours. At 720p and the default quality, reckon on roughly fifteen megabytes per minute of footage. A two-minute clip fits comfortably; a fifteen-minute recording never will, however far you pull the sliders back. When that happens, compressing a video for email is not the answer: send the original as a download link and keep the quality.
Resolution does most of the work; for a portrait video the short side counts, so 720p then means 720 × 1280. Going from 1080p to 720p drops about half the pixels, and the file follows; 480p halves it again. The quality slider fine-tunes within that choice: around 55 ordinary footage still looks fine, while below 35 you notice it first in busy, moving scenes, which turn blocky. Only keep 1080p when there is small text on screen, such as a spreadsheet in a screen recording. And if nobody speaks in the clip, switch off 'Include audio' — that saves a little more.
Compression happens in your own browser; nothing goes to a server, which matters when the footage contains client data or internal material. If your video is an MP4 or MOV — what most phones and cameras record — it is processed frame by frame, usually well within the running time. An MKV or WebM usually goes the same way; if it has to be done in real time, the tool tells you beforehand why and how long it takes. Keep the tab in view: in the background it is much slower. By default you get an MP4 (H.264 with AAC audio) that plays on almost any device and in any program, at up to 30 frames per second. If the result is not smaller than your original, the tool says so and saves nothing.
An MP4 or MOV usually goes faster than its playing time, because the tool works frame by frame. If a video has to be processed in real time, the tool tells you beforehand why and roughly how long it takes. Keep the tab in view: in the background it is much slower.
By default an MP4 (H.264 with AAC audio) that plays on almost any device; WebM is possible too. If the result is not smaller than your original, the tool says so.
No. The work happens in your own browser, on your computer or phone: your file is not sent to our server. Only if you then choose to send the result as a download link is it uploaded.
Yes, up to a limit. Without an account you can do 3 operations per category (all PDF tools count together, for example) in a session, and with a free account 10 per category. If you need more, you need a subscription. See the prices.
Yes. After the operation you can send the result as a download link, even if it is too large for an email attachment. To do so, sign in or create a free account.