A video compressor stands out for its intelligent compression algorithms, ensuring a seamless reduction in video size without compromising quality. This versatile tool offers users multiple options, including trimming and cropping, adjusting video resolution, frame rate, or custom quality. Choose from pre-made dimensions tailored for various social media platforms, empowering users to effortlessly decrease video size while retaining crucial details. Experience efficient video compression with CapCut, preserving the essence of your content across diverse formats.

Why reduce video file size

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         Advanced Methods of Video Compression

There are two main methods to compress a video. You can optimize the bitrate or resize the video to a smaller size. We provide 4 settings related to both methods. Here’s an explanation:

By Video Quality

CRF (Constant Rate Factor): CRF method attempts to keep a constant perceived video quality. To do that, it uses different compression levels on different frames. For the H264 encoder, possible CRF values range from 0 to 51. Higher values mean more compression (reduced file size), lower values mean better quality (but bigger file size). The default is set at 23.

Preset: Presets refers to the video compression speed. Choosing a slower preset allows better optimization (lower bitrate/file size) for a given video quality level. If you prefer a lower file size over encoding time, choose a slower preset.

As a Percentage of the Original Size (Default)

This method allows you to set a target file size for your video as a percentage of the original size. For example, if you set it to 60% for a 1Gb file, we will attempt to make your compressed file size 600Mb or less.  The pros of this method are, you can achieve a certain target size. The downside is you don’t know how the target size will affect video quality. To overcome this, start with a decent size (as a percentage of original), then test for video quality. Increase the target size if you need better quality. This is the default video compression method used.

Set Max Bitrate

This method allows you to set the max bitrate for given video quality. CRF (constant rate factor) sets the quality. Select this method if you are using the video in a streaming application where you want to control the streaming bandwidth rate..

Make Video Size Smaller (Re-Size)

Choosing a smaller video resolution (dimensions) can also save file size. For example, if you have a 4K (4320p) video but your target device is 1080p, you can downsize the video to fit 1080p and save file size. To choose this option, choose “Re-size video” from “Advanced Settings” above.

How To Compress a Video?

1. Click the “Choose Video” button to select your video file 
2. Keep the default options (they do a great job!) or specify advanced options 
3. Click on the “Compress Video” button to start compression 
4. When the status changes to “Done” click the “Download Video” button World’s best video compressor to compress MP4, AVI, MKV, or any other video file. Choose the default options to compress video size by 40%, or choose a custom size.

How to play compressed video?

All major browsers and devices support codecs used for compression. So you should have no playback issues. If there are any issues, try opening the video with the free VLC player (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile versions available). Allowed file types are: m2ts, mp4, mp4, mts, mpeg, swf, mod, mp4, mp4, mov, m4v, qt, rm, mpg, 3gpp, flv, divx, vob, dvr-ms, wmv, mp4, rmvb, asf, mkv, 3g2, ts, mpv, wtv, webm, xvid, mp4, 3gp, mp4, mxf, avi, m1v, f4p, mp4, f4v, ogv

What’s Rotato?

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