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Video Compressor

Make videos smaller for sharing, by strength or to the size you choose.

The video compressor makes MP4, MOV and WEBM files smaller and keeps their format, for sending by email or chat, uploading to sites with a size limit, or saving space. MKV files work too; pick the format they should become.

Almost any file

Images, vector art, video, audio, documents, spreadsheets, slides, ebooks and archives: more than 400 conversions. Before anything runs, Filebender says what a conversion will lose and estimates the size of video, audio and many pictures; other files show their size once converted. It compresses PDFs, pictures and videos to the size you choose.

No ads, no watermarks

With a free account: 20 files a day, 2 of them videos, each up to 500 MB. No plan has ads, and nothing is stamped on your files. A pass is one payment that never renews, and one you haven't used can be refunded in full.

Private by default

Files are deleted an hour after converting, or at once when you ask, and photo location is removed unless you choose to keep it. Photos converted to JPG, PNG or WebP are done on your device when your browser can, so they never leave it. They still need your account and count towards your plan.

How to use the Video Compressor

  1. Create a free account with Google or your email address, or sign in.
  2. Choose your files: drop them on the box, pick them from your computer, open them from Google Drive, or paste a link.
  3. Choose how small: a strength, or a target size you choose. The gear button has more settings.
  4. Press “Compress”, then download each file, or all of them in one ZIP.

The strengths

Light encodes at CRF 23 with 160 kbps sound and looks like most originals; Balanced uses CRF 28 and 128 kbps; Strong uses CRF 33 and 96 kbps for the smallest files, with some softness in fine detail. MP4 and MOV files use H.264 and WEBM files VP9 unless you pick another codec; H.265 makes smaller files still, for devices that play it.

Getting under a size

Give a size in MB and Filebender works out the bitrate from the video's length, then encodes twice (with H.264, H.265 or VP9), once to study the video and once to write it, so the result lands just under the size you choose. If that's too small for watchable video it tries 360p, and if even that won't fit, it tells you the smallest size it can make before anything runs.

In the settings, the Email preset aims under 10 MB and Discord (20 MB) just under Discord's standard upload limit.

How it counts

Compressing a video counts as one of your videos. With a free account you can convert 20 files a day, 2 of them videos, each up to 500 MB; a pass takes files up to 2 GB. Videos are compressed on Filebender's servers and deleted an hour after converting.

Questions

Will it tell me the size first?

Yes. Filebender encodes a six-second sample and estimates the result's size before you start, so you can change the strength first.

What else makes a video smaller?

A lower resolution. A 4K phone video resized to 1080p, or 1080p to 720p, shrinks a lot with little visible difference on a phone screen.

How long does it take?

Compressing encodes every frame again, so long or 4K videos take a while, and a size target roughly doubles it. You can close the page; opening it again picks up conversions that are still running.

Is Filebender free?

Yes, with a free account: 20 files every day (up to 2 of them videos), each up to 500 MB, with no watermark and no ads. Make the account with Google or your email address. Files converted on your device count the same way as the rest. If you need more, a Day, Week or Month Pass is one payment that never renews; see the Pricing page.

What happens to my files?

It depends on the file. Pictures your browser can convert itself, and everything you do with the PDF tools, from merging and splitting PDFs to putting photos into one, are handled on your device and never leave it, unless you choose to send a file to Filebender's servers. They still need your account: Filebender receives only their type and size, to count them against your plan like any other file. Everything else is converted on Filebender's servers on Google Cloud and deleted an hour after the conversion finishes, or straight away when you press “Delete files now”. Nobody looks at your files, and they're never used for anything else.