Sometimes, you might want to cut down a video’s file size to send it to someone or to ensure it doesn’t take up too much of your storage space. In such cases, you may compress the video to reduce its file size.
There are a variety of methods you may use to compress a video in different operating systems. So, let’s start!
What is Video Compression?
Video compression is the process by which you may reduce the data necessary for a video to be processed properly. In a nutshell, it means reducing the file size of the video while trying to keep the quality as close to the original as possible.
Now, there are a lot of different factors that determine how large a video’s file size is going to be. So, the video compression process digs into these factors and cuts back on some of them to reduce the file size of your video.
Anyway, let’s see what factors affect a video’s file size and how video compression tries to reduce a video’s file size.
Furthermore, other types of compression can be useful for you other than just video compression. For instance, you may performfile compression/file zippingon a video to reduce its space.
This will reduce the video file size, but you won’t really be able to view the video. you may only view the video when it gets uncompressed. This can be quite useful if your purpose is to archive your large videos, so we’ll also show how you can do so.
Compress Video on Windows
The easiest method to compress a video on Windows is by using the built-in file compress feature ofFile Explorer. This will compress your video into a zip file, and it will also reduce file size without any loss in quality.
Alternatively, there are also more advanced third-party file compressors that you may use to compress your video file. You can use software likeWinrar or 7zipto compress the file size of your videos even more.
Additionally, there is another way you may reduce the file size of a video in Windows. Using the pre-installed Video Editor app, you can export your videos to a lower resolution to reduce their size.
Compress Video on Mac
you may also pretty easily compress a video on Mac computers using Apple’s default media player, QuickTime. While this method will reduce the file size of your video, it will also reduce the quality of your video.
Compress Video on Android
