Part 1: Why Is File Compression Important

Videos are great but they can also cause headaches. Here are some scenarios:

• You were once crazy about your birthday gift GoPro Hero 6 Black and shot massive extreme sports footages, which easily steal away your hard drive space and slow down your computer but you are unwilling to delete them at all.

• You did some content creation with your DJI P4P when travelling in England but found it too big to email your grandpa and even run into choppy or broken up playback when viewing it because it is oversized.

• You just want to share a funny video of your 5-month baby from your iPhone X but it took you hour to upload to YouTube and even stuck.

• You scored some memorable moments for your graduation ceremony using a Canon 4k-enabled camera, but what's frustrating is when you try to send them to your friend via whatsapp, it prompts a message of too large file size.

No more bothering. Compressing video will solve all the problems. It can:

Maximum storage space of hard drive/mobiles/cloud service

File compression reduces the amount of space required to store the video data. This is especially beneficial if you have a space-constrained mobile device. For example, a 64 GB iPhone will hold a 4K UHD video as long as 5 hours when compressed using HEVC codec, but less than 2 minutes for uncompressed raw video will devour your iPhone's space. Deleting the video is a temporary solution while using video compression to resize video will solve the problem once and for all and therefore make more room to store more videos.

Follow the guide if you want to free up some space on iPhone >>

Send video via Email, Whatsapp, etc with no size limit

Almost all email systems put limitations on the video size attachments. For example, Gmail and Yahoo only allow for 25MB video sending while Outlook and iCloud mail impose a limit of 20MB per video. If the video exceed the limitation, it will be slow, require you to upload to Google drive, and even receive an error message. So compressing video to reduce the amount of data to reasonable size will make it easy and quick to transfer via mail.

Click to learn how to compress and send large video over email >>

Upload video online as fast as possible

The size of the video plays a decisive role of the amount of the time it takes to distribute over the internet. Generally, the upload speed is around 1.5 mb/s. You can also test your internet connect and find your upload speed with speedtest.net or testmy.net. Accordingly, the amount of time required to distribute over the internet at 1.5mb/s bandwidth will be calculated as follows:

• A reasonable 500 Mb video will takes around 5min33s to upload online;

• A 1 Gb video will consume 11min22s for distribution;

• A large 1.5 Gb video will need as long as 17min4s.

Note: The internet connection is not as exactly as your expect. So the upload time will float up or down. So you are for sure unwilling to waste your time in uploading. By downsizing the large video into a smaller one, it will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes and lower the bandwidth required to transmit the data.

Follow the guide to compress and upload big video to YouTube >>

Play videos on whatever device screens flawlessly

There are times you cannot play videos on your mobile phone or tablet successfully, even though your gadget supports FHD video resolution and various video formats. Chances are some video files you want to view are from camcorders, online sources, to name a few. They are shot at different settings, e.g. the video resolution goes beyond your device screen, the bit rate is as high as 1000 Mbps which, as a result, ends up being queerly large size and quickly chews up your device storage space. This is why you need to resize video and rescale the video dimension in such a way to decrease the video size and fit your device's display properly.

Archive and backup videos fast and easily

Backing up and transferring videos from one computer to another is as easy as copy and paste. But if the videos are several gigabytes in size, to compress the video files will greatly save your time and thus save storage space. Besides, the compression involving in video format transcoding will also ease the process from Windows platform to macOS computer.

Wanna backup video between iPhone and Mac, here is the tips >>