Video Compressor — Real Compression, Zero Uploads

Getting a 310 MB clip under a 50 MB upload cap

The Video Compressor shrinks MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV files by re-encoding them at a scale and quality level you choose, with no upload and no account. A training portal capped me at 50 MB and my 2-minute phone clip weighed 310 MB. I set scale to 70% — 1080p becomes 756p — and quality to CRF 30, then ran it: the status line reported roughly 46 MB out, about an 85% cut, comfortably under the cap. Two minutes of processing, one download, problem solved without emailing anybody a link.

Iterate instead of settling for the first pass. If the file still misses your target, push quality up a notch — CRF 34 looks soft on faces but survives screen recordings fine — or drop scale to 50% for a genuinely tiny file. Content matters more than settings: talking-head and screen-capture footage compresses easily, while handheld sports clips are basically all motion and fight you the whole way. And keep the source file safe. Every pass is a new compression generation, so never re-compress your only copy; work from the original each time you retune.