Reduce Video Size

Resolution sets the floor

More pixels per frame means more bytes per frame. A 4K frame carries four times the pixels of 1080p before compression even starts.

Frame rate multiplies it

Sixty frames a second is twice the frames of thirty. Content with little motion between frames compresses the difference away cheaply; busy content does not.

Recording bitrate is the culprit

Modern phones record at bitrates that pass 10MB in seconds — which is why raw phone clips are the usual reason people need to reduce video size at all.

Re-encode to a smaller bitrate

The main path and what this tool does: rewrite the file under a tighter budget, letting the encoder choose what detail to soften.

Lower the resolution

Dropping from 1080p to 720p or 480p cuts the per-frame cost directly. Clean 480p beats artifact-riddled pseudo-HD every time.

Trim and then compress

Shortening the clip fattens the budget for what remains. Trimming alone reduces size too, but it reduces content — the two stack.

30 to 50 percent: barely visible

For personal footage, cuts in this range usually pass a side-by-side glance.

70 to 90 percent: clearly softer

Fine for chat sharing where the video is watched once on a phone screen; risky for anything archival.

Beyond 95 percent: different media

A 1GB clip squeezed to 10MB keeps one percent of its information. It will play; it will not look like the original.

Take the free savings first

Trim dead air and strip the tail you never needed — size saved with zero quality cost.

Match the destination's limit

Compress only as hard as the platform forces. If the cap is 25MB, landing at 24MB keeps far more quality than squeezing into 10.

Favour resolution over artifacting

When the budget gets tight, dropping frame size produces a cleaner watch than forcing the encoder to starve a bigger frame.