How to Compress a Video | Reduce Video File Size | Video Compressor (2024)

Compressing video is really helpful when you need to free up space on your hard drives, upload your video to PowerPoint or social media, or when you want to send it to someone via email, cloud, WhatsApp, or any other platform you favor.

In this video, we will show you 7 ways to compress a video with VideoProc Converter AI's compressing capabilities.

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Enter the target size into the compress box directly. This is the easiest and most timesaving way possible to make your videos smaller while retaining quality! Here, you can reduce a video anywhere between 90% and 10% of its original size.

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Transcode video format to MP4 HEVC. According to our test(Tested on Windows 10 Enterprise; AMD Ryzen 5 24000 with Raden Vega Graphics(8CPUs); 8GB RAM; 64-bit OS), converting H.264 to HEVC in VideoProc Converter can save about 90% of file size without a perceivable change in quality.

The next 4 methods have a less significant impact on video size, but they may meet your needs given the particular project you may be working on.

Method 3
Increasing GOP length. By doing so, the video itself reduces the temporal redundancy across frames from one frame to the next, resulting in smaller video sizes while retaining the original quality. It works best where the subject isn’t moving at fast rates, and your frames per second are in the lower range between 24-30.

Method 4
Change Frame Rate. This works well if there’s not a great deal of rapid movement in the shot. When you select a lower frame rate, the video size will be decreased.

Method 5
Change the bitrate. The video bitrate is in Mb (Megabits) and refers to how many bits will be transmitted in a given unit of time. When you manually lower this number, the quality of the video is lowered, too.

Method 6
Reduce the quality of the audio. If you’re posting to social media, especially shorts of stories, the majority of people have the volume muted or turned a long way down. In this case, you can consider removing audio from the video to receive a smaller file.

⛳Method 7
Downscale video resolution. The higher the resolution the larger the file size, if you can afford resolution reduction(eg. 8K/4k video to 1080P ), this is the best way to reduce the video size to 90% smaller than the original one.

Timestamp
0:00 Intro
0:31 Method 1: 1-click compress 【Recommendation star: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐】
1:35 Method 2: transcode 【Recommendation star: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐】
2:47 Method 3: increase GOP length
3:31 Method 4: reduce frame rate
3:49 Method 5: reduce bitrate
4:11 Method 6: mute audio
4:47 Method 7: downscale video resolution

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[joncothranphotography]

Great information, Legend! I shared this with a friend who needed to compress a video to send to a contractor. Thanks so much!

[VideoProcConverter]

If the video you want to compress is within 5 minutes, the free version is enough for you, otherwise, you will need a full version. Once you are a lifetime user, you can enjoy a compressor, AI video upscaler, AI image enlarger, AI motion stabilization, AI fps booster, editor, converter, recorder, and DVD digitizer in one go.

[Accolades]

Great Explanation... just doing the revers cant add the details back in :-)

[JuanHabitualColombia]

Hello friend, what's wrong, I signed up for the paid version, I want to improve the image of some video clips, but it uploads them and when I want to process them it returns to the beginning, as if it rejected them



[xhimi]

this is strange i try latest free version in my desktop pc that support both gpu and cpu and in my laptop with only cpu acceleartion and i used on both same file 1080p mov file that was around 1.7 gb i set them both to 720p mp4 Hevc in high quality, on desktop i saw that was converting at 220 fps and finished fast file size was reduced to 544mb on laptop it took more time cuz was converting to 19fps but file size was reduced to 440mb, how is this possible big difference in size compression with same setting?

[sportmusichd]

Hey! Is there an option to change the default compress percentage to other value than 70%? in case i have a folder with a lot of videos i had to change manually each of the files and that takes a lot of time.
There is a way to select all the files and change the compress percentage to other value?
Thanks

[vad_nimation]

Help me bro i have GTX1650 16gb ram AMG Rygen5 5600 when i export its takes too much time 🙂💔🥺

[Abdo-elhadi_abdo-elwahab.]

Don't know why whenever i compressed file the quality drops

[ned]

How to compress images in VideoProc Converter sir?

[whitecastlept]

Tutorials for you to spend money in software....thumbs down