How to Shrink a Video File Size Without Losing Quality

How to Shrink a Video File Size Without Losing Quality. Reduce the size of a video file for free! Compressing video files seems complicated, but today I share exactly how to reduce the size by over 10X.

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[rafah]

1:45 is where the how to actually starts

[NathanMaingard]

It's so cool to come back here years later and see you are KILLING it! I always knew you'd do well, so happy to see. Thanks and much love

[urmomdoer]

Thanks, now I can send my friend a 3 minute video of me eating a bowl of 75% whipped cream and 25% of ice cream.

[davidgrunstra]

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this video sir!! I've been trying to compress a video of me playing a flamenco song at a gig now for a year. Your post was so helpful. Thanks again!

[HomeStudioBasics]

For anyone reading this, this is a much better method for motion graphic video files vs. VLC. For whatever reason, after a VLC conversion my graphic rotates 45 degrees and it's more headache than it's worth trying to fix it. Hand Brake is much better and does not do this. Thanks so much Marcos!

[theblackkid]

Thank you for the tip. If I didn't get this advice I'd be waiting to upload a clip for 6 hours when its just 15 minutes video

[overclub]

If you hold the cursor over the different tabs, a drupdown description gives you info on what the tab does and how best to tweak it

[leam.]

Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this for YEARS! And I love how easy it is after your tutorial.

[Comicbooksavant]

Hey Marcos I found your channel a few months back and I just wanted to say thank you for all the great content that you provide you have help me so much in learning final cut pro X, keep up the great work!

[CBCFilms]

Hey! I'm pretty sure the interlace settings have to do with videos that are 1080i instead of 1080p for instance, and it probably has to do with recognizing if the video is interlaced (where it basically updates through half a frame at a time instead of a whole frame) and is asking if you want it to do it's best to convert it into a 1080p file rather than 1080i. Hope that helps!

[thinklikesvr]

Hey mate!
I really appreciate your time in making this video
super helpful
thanks for making us save tons of storage on our systems 👏🏻

[Digital.Done.Right.]

Funny watching this Marcos. I have needed to get onto this subject particularly for early versioning of videos to speed up my workflow. You talk about upload times and all. This could save hours. Now you have done the Google search&learn for me. Thx!

[lovelaughwa]

THANK YOU!! We recorded a customer's marriage proposal yesterday and I needed to email the video to them. I didn't know how to compress it. YOU SAVED ME! :)

[TheFreedPerspective]

Dude. You SAVED me with this! Thank you!!!

[pisngaming]

Thanks man this really helped me compress my gaming playthrough vids !!!!

[JasonsAcousticWorkshop]

You can't title it "without losing quality" then say that the quality is not as good as the original

[UnseenSamy]

Hey Marcos, love the good content ! Do you have videos for managing/archiving files after finishing a project ?

[bolesky]

Excellent video. Simple and it worked perfect. My wife teaches ballet and tap and this really helped us compress videos for teaching during Covid. Thanks a lot!!!!

[glennholbrook]

Thank you for making this video. I spent all day trying to find the right kind of compressor for my video movies until I found yours. This should help me out a lot.

[rishigolembiewski]

This actually is reducing the file quality by a huge amount. H.264 is a compressed file type, good for the last step of video production - if you don't need to make any more changes. If you need to do any colour grading or do something like key out a green screen, this kind of compression will make it significantly more difficult. Otherwise if nothing needs to be done to it and the difference is in perceivable then it's totally a good option. It can also be done in any video editing software.