Click or drop videos

Not sure which level to use?

Low

  • Best quality, still a noticeably smaller file.
  • Archiving, editing, anything you'll watch on a big screen.

Medium

  • Balanced size and quality.
  • Messaging apps, email, uploading to a website.

High

  • Smallest file, more visible loss.
  • Quick previews, drafts, hitting a strict upload limit.

New to compressing videos?

A video file is mostly redundancy — most of every frame looks like the one before it. Compression keeps what changes and re-encodes the rest at a lower bitrate, which is why the same clip can shrink by 80% and still look fine. Here's what's actually happening when you compress, and how to pick the right level.

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