Compress Video
Make a video small enough to send, without uploading it anywhere.
- Pick a quality and a resolution
- Drop a video. It is encoded on your device
- Download the smaller file and see what you saved
0 bytes left your browserWhy is this limited?
Scaling down usually saves far more than quality does. A phone records at a size almost nobody watches it at, and 720p is plenty for anything that gets sent.
Encoding runs on your own processor, so a long video takes minutes. The page stays usable, and nothing is uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
- Why is it slower than the compressors that upload my file?
- Because those send your video to a server farm and this runs on the processor in front of you. That is the trade: your file never leaves the device, and you wait for your own machine rather than someone else's.
- Which setting should I use?
- Balanced, and 720p, unless you know the file is going somewhere that needs more. That pair turns most phone recordings into a fraction of their size with nothing a viewer would notice on a phone or a laptop.
- Why did my file barely shrink?
- It was probably compressed already: a download from a streaming site or a message app has had most of the redundancy taken out. Lowering the resolution is what still helps on those.
- What format do I get back?
- MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, which plays on essentially everything. Making a file sendable is the point, so the output is the format least likely to be refused at the other end.