Gmail and Outlook both draw the line at roughly 25 MB per message, and the video from your phone is usually five times that. Compressing to 720p at a moderate bitrate brings a few minutes of footage under the cap without making it look like 2009.
The compressor opens on the 720p / 2 Mbps preset, which fits about 90 seconds of video in 25 MB. It shows the size estimate up front and the true measured size after, so no surprise bounces.
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This is Compress Video preconfigured for this task — open the full tool for every option.
Select a video; its resolution, duration, and size are shown.
Choose MP4 (H.264/AAC) or WebM (VP9/VP8), then pick a preset or custom resolution and bitrate.
Export — the video replays through a scaled local canvas and re-encodes at the chosen bitrate and supported browser codec.
Before/after sizes are reported from the actual output bytes.
The selected MP4 or WebM container signature is checked, then the compressed output is re-decoded locally to confirm it plays. Its true byte size and duration are measured before download.
About 90 seconds at the 720p preset, or around 3 minutes at 480p. The preview estimate updates as you change settings, so you can dial it in before exporting.
Sometimes, but then your video sits on someone's server. Compressing locally keeps the recording on your machine and inside the email itself.
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