Compress videos
Get videos down to a size that fits email and chat attachment limits and cloud quotas. Screen recordings and phone footage often shrink to a quarter or less just by dropping to 720p.
Settings
How to use
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Add videos
Drop the videos you want to shrink. Works well for screen recordings and phone footage.
- 2
Set quality, resolution and frame rate
Lower quality means a smaller file. Dropping to 720p and 30 fps alone makes a big difference. Remove the audio if you do not need it.
- 3
Run and check
After processing you see the original and compressed sizes and the reduction. Adjust and run again if the quality is not enough.
Settings with the biggest effect
Resolution matters most: 4K to 1080p quarters the pixel count, 1080p to 720p roughly halves it. Next is quality (bitrate); "Low" gives about 60% of "Medium". Dropping from 60 to 30 fps also helps for screen recordings with little motion.
For screen recordings that do not need sound, "Remove audio" saves more. For fast-moving game or sports footage, lowering quality causes visible blocking, so reduce resolution instead to preserve the look.
Frequently asked questions
How much smaller will it get?
A 1080p phone video (about 100 MB per minute) comes down to roughly 15–25 MB at 720p and “Low” quality. The reduction is shown after processing. Videos saved from X (Twitter) with X Video Downloader can be compressed as they are.
How much quality is lost?
"Medium" is hard to notice on screen; "Low" is fine on a phone but shows softer detail on a large display.
How long does it take?
With a hardware encoder, a 10-minute video takes about 1–2 minutes. Devices that fall back to software encoding may take about as long as the video itself.
Does it handle portrait video?
Yes. Resolution is applied to the shorter side, so choosing 720p makes a portrait video 720 px wide. Rotation metadata is preserved.
Help us improve the service
If a conversion fails, sending us the circumstances helps us track down the cause. Knowing which devices and formats fail most often, and how long processing takes, lets us revise the supported formats and fix the bugs behind them. If you don't mind, leaving this on is a real help.
What is sent
- The tool you used and the settings you chose (output format, quality, etc.)
- Your device specs (GPU, memory, core count)
- The input format with a rough size
- How many files succeeded or failed and how long it took
- The error type and details when something fails
What is never sent
- The files themselves and file names
- Text, subtitles or prompts you add to a video
- The text to be read aloud, voice descriptions, the pronunciation dictionary and saved voices
- The text in PDFs, the text you rewrote or redacted, passwords, font names and the page ranges you enter
- IP addresses
The data goes only to this site's own server, never to a third-party service.
Details sent by specific tools (counts, times, kinds and yes/no only)
In addition to “What is sent”, text to speech and the PDF tools send the following details.
- Text to speech
- The approximate number of characters and sentences, how many parts the text was generated in, and how long the AI model took to load.
- PDF tools (all)
- The page count range, whether editing is restricted, whether a permissions password was entered, and whether the PDF is signed or encrypted.
- PDF text editing and redaction
- The numbers of rewrites, deletions, white-outs and redactions, the number of rewritten characters by source (original font or fallback font, the latter as a range) and the fallback typeface, the kinds of reasons why lines cannot be edited, and the number of pages turned into images by redaction and the reasons.
- PDF page operations and conversion between images and PDF
- The numbers of inputs and outputs, of pages rotated, deleted, duplicated or moved, of images inserted as they are, converted, in HEIC format or with corrected orientation, and of pages rendered at a lower resolution (all as ranges), whether the original was updated in place or a new document was created, and whether the original protection was reapplied, form fields were written into the page and bookmarks were added back.
- PDF compression
- The numbers of inputs and outputs, of images downsized, not downsized and black-and-white, of downsized images whose transparency was also downsized, that stayed lossless or that were converted from CMYK to RGB, and how many times the file was compressed (all as ranges), the kinds of reasons images were not downsized, whether the target size was met and the kind of reason it was not met, the range of how much smaller the file got, whether the original protection was reapplied, and whether the original PDF was returned unchanged.
- PDF cropping and page numbers
- The numbers of inputs and outputs and of pages cropped, numbered or with their margins reduced (all as ranges), how the margins were set, how the pages to crop or number were chosen, the number format and position, the range of the starting number, that the original was updated in place, and whether the original protection was reapplied.