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Compress video for email

Free, no watermark, no signup, and your file never leaves your device.

Fits Gmail/Outlook (accounts for attachment overhead)

Gmail and Outlook both cap attachments at 25 MB, and it's actually less than that in practice, because email encoding inflates attachments by about a third. A video that just fits at 25 MB can still bounce. This preset targets a size with margin built in.

Everything runs locally in your browser. For work videos this is often a requirement, not a nicety: the file never touches a third-party server, so there's no data-handling question to answer.

If your video can't reasonably fit, a ten-minute recording, say, the honest answer is a link rather than an attachment, and the FAQ covers when to choose which.

Questions people ask

Why did my 24 MB attachment bounce?
Email encodes attachments in Base64, which adds roughly 33% overhead. A 24 MB file becomes ~32 MB on the wire and exceeds the server limit. Target 18-19 MB to be safe, this preset accounts for that.
When should I use a link instead of an attachment?
Past a few minutes of footage, compression to email size costs real quality. For long videos, a Drive/Dropbox link preserves quality and avoids clogging inboxes. Attachments win for short clips the receiver should keep.
Is the compressed video still playable everywhere?
Output is standard MP4 (H.264 + AAC) with the streaming flag set, it plays in Outlook previews, QuickTime, Windows, and phones without extra software.