Gloria in excelsis Deo!
I used VLC. What an amazing software.
34,046kb –> 3,559kb
It is offline and dont collect data.
I tried first with Windows Video editor on my Windows 10 machine, but the software was unavailable and Clipchamp which was offered instead required my machine to be connected to internet….
Thank you so much for your work.
Maybe you should check the video editor and possibly revisit the article?
God bless you in Jesu name.
Like many others here, I tried the first method using Windows native app and it took an HOUR to ‘shrink’ and the file GREW from 300M to 1G! Safe to say never using it again.
I need to make videos smaller for social media. Instagram videos must be smaller than 15MG, Facebook videos must be smaller than 10MG and LinkedIn videos must be smaller than 5MG. Are there any settings in any video compressor that makes sure your video can get to those sizes? Thanks!
I used the first method with the Windows Video Editor, and the video file got larger rather than smaller, even when using the Low 540p setting, so that doesn’t work. Then I tried the VLC method exactly as described, and it produced a video with no sound, so that doesn’t work either. 🙁
I used the video converter on Windows 10, followed your instructions and in the end the mp4 wasn’t much smaller than the original AND the sound was that of playing a 78 rpm record at 33 1/3….. 🙁
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Thank you very much for the info.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
I used VLC. What an amazing software.
34,046kb –> 3,559kb
It is offline and dont collect data.
I tried first with Windows Video editor on my Windows 10 machine, but the software was unavailable and Clipchamp which was offered instead required my machine to be connected to internet….
Thank you so much for your work.
Maybe you should check the video editor and possibly revisit the article?
God bless you in Jesu name.
Which video editor do you want us to check? It’s not very clear to me. Thank you!
This was really helpful! Didn’t know VLC could be used to convert / compress videos! Many thanks!!!
We didn’t know that either until making the research for the first draft of this article. Glad we could help. 🙂
Like many others here, I tried the first method using Windows native app and it took an HOUR to ‘shrink’ and the file GREW from 300M to 1G! Safe to say never using it again.
Try the other solutions too. Some are bound to lead to better results.
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I need to make videos smaller for social media. Instagram videos must be smaller than 15MG, Facebook videos must be smaller than 10MG and LinkedIn videos must be smaller than 5MG. Are there any settings in any video compressor that makes sure your video can get to those sizes? Thanks!
Best instructions ever!!! I used the top ones with the video editor app. Thank you for your excellent instructions.
Yer Great thanks alot found the VLC one useful
Thanks, VLC way did the job for me: a 100MB 1 minute video captured with Windows gaming became a 10MB video to send to a friend over phone !
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I used the first method with the Windows Video Editor, and the video file got larger rather than smaller, even when using the Low 540p setting, so that doesn’t work. Then I tried the VLC method exactly as described, and it produced a video with no sound, so that doesn’t work either. 🙁
Try the other methods too. One of them should work well for you too.
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I used the video converter on Windows 10, followed your instructions and in the end the mp4 wasn’t much smaller than the original AND the sound was that of playing a 78 rpm record at 33 1/3….. 🙁
tried the first method. video went from 39mb to 104mb. THAT one doesn’t work so well….
Excellent and informative article. Thank you so much
Thanks for the tips!! never know if VLC can convert video, haha.
Just download the ffmpeg based freeware Video to Video Converter. One of the easiest and best video converter around.