Compress Videos : Your HP and laptop storage memory is full because you store large videos? Well, instead of deleting videos to save memory usage, there is another way that can be done, namely by compressing the video file.
Compressing video files can be done on cellphones and laptops. Curious how? read this article to the end, yes.
Compress video means reducing the size of the video file by optimizing the file.
For maximum results, you should use the correct video compression application so that the compressed video file remains of good quality even with a smaller file size.
How To Compress Video On Laptop
There are two ways to compress videos on a laptop, namely using an application and without using an application.
How to compress videos on a laptop without an application is to use an online video compression service that is accessed online via a web browser.
Although you can actually use a video editing application to compress videos, this is not practical. Therefore, you should use an application that is devoted to compressing videos.
Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. Please select the following guide according to your needs.
How to Compress Video on a Laptop Using VideoProc . Software
There are free ones, why pay? Maybe you’ve thought so, but that’s not always true, you know.
VideoProc is a paid software but at a very affordable price. In fact, you could say that you will get more than what you pay for.
Why is that so? what is the difference between compressing videos using VideoProc compared to free video compression software?
There are several advantages that you can get on VideoProc that you don’t get in free software:
- The compression process is very fast. This is because VideoProc has a mainstay feature in the form of Full GPU Accelerated so that it can maximize the performance of your computer hardware.
- The results of video compression with a very small size but with video quality that is maintained.
GadgetLogi has tried it for mp4 format video files with a size of 9.8 MB, which can be compressed by VideoProc to a size of 1.8 MB with very good video quality, even difficult to distinguish from video quality before it is compressed. Wow, sophisticated, huh?
Left: 9.8MB MP4 video. Right: 1.8MB MP4 video.
How? Interested in trying to reduce video size with VideoProc? Don’t worry, this software can be installed on computers with Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32bit & 64bit) and MacOS operating systems.
You can use the trial version first with a video duration limit that can be compressed only 5 minutes.
Well, the good news is that VideoProc is giving away the VideoProc version 4.1 software giveway for free! you can get it here. Don’t miss it, okay?
Here’s how to compress videos using VideoProc:
- Open VideoProc, if you already have the license then please click the Activate button. However, if you want to use the trial version then please click the Remind Me Later button.
- After the main menu opens, click the Video menu.
- The next step, insert the video to be compressed into VideoProc. The trick is to click the Video button in the top menu.
- After the video is entered into VideoProc, the timeline and detailed information of the video will be displayed. The next step, click the Target Format button.
- In the Select Output Profile section, please select the General Profiles menu.
- Then, scroll down, select MP4 Video (MPEG4) and click the Done button.
- The last step, make sure the Hardware Acceleration Engine feature is active by checking the Nvidia / Intel / AMD section. If so, press the RUN button to start the video compression process.
- Please wait for the video compression process to finish. In this section, the advantages of VideoProc will be very visible because the video compression process can be completed very quickly.
- You can compare the size of the video after it is compressed it will be very small. Done.
How? very easy right? VideoProc has an interface that is very easy to use and understand even for beginners.
Time and quality are very important. Well, if you are interested in VideoProc then you can buy it at a very affordable price of around $30 (forever) and you can use all the features in full, without a time limit.
Notes
With this price, you will get lots of features, namely Edit Video with full features, Screen Recorder, Convert & Backup DVD and Video Downloader.
How to Compress Video on a Laptop Using Handbrake Software
The best and free video compression software on a laptop that you can use is Handbrake.
The advantage of this software is that you can adjust how small the video size is, how low the image quality is and how low the audio quality is very easily by selecting the presets that are already available.
The presets that you can choose are also very complete, starting from common video compression presets, namely based on FPS, web video presets and presets based on device types such as Android cellphones, iPhone cellphones, TV, PlayStation and Xbox. You can find information about the list of presets in handbrake on their official website.
Handbrake also supports many video formats that can be compressed such as MP4, M4V, MKV, MOV, MPG, MPEG, AVI, WMV, FLV and WEBM.
You can install Handbrake on a PC or laptop with the following operating systems:
- Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
- MacOS 10.11 (OS X El Capitan) or later.
- Linux Ubuntu and its derivatives
If you already have Handbrake installed, please follow these steps:
- Open the Handbrake software then select the “File” menu to add the video you want to compress (reduce the file size).
- If you have found the video file, then click Open.
- The next step, open the Summary menu and in the Format section please tick “Web Optimized”.
- Then move to Video settings and change the Framerate (FPS) section to 23,976.
- Next in the Audio section, change the Bitrate to 128.
- After in the Save As section, specify where you will save the compressed video file.
- Then select the “Start Encode” menu with a green arrow.
- The last step is to wait until the compression process is complete. The speed of this process depends on the initial size of your video as well as your PC’s processor. If your video size is large it will take a little longer.
- If the process is complete, the video file that has been compressed into a small size will be saved according to the location you selected in the Save As section.
How to Compress Video on a Laptop Using Windows Movie Maker Classic Software
Windows Movie Maker Classic is video editing software provided free by Microsoft for Windows XP to Windows 7 users.
However, this software is no longer developed so you don’t find it again in the Windows 10 installation package.
Movie Maker is basically intended for video editing, but this software also has a feature to reduce the size of the video.
The advantage of Movie Maker Classic software is its simple interface and very easy to use.
While the drawback of this software is that it does not support new video formats such as MKV. Therefore, if you want to reduce the size of an MKV video, then you cannot use this software and use the HandBrake software.
Well, don’t worry because you can still download Movie Maker Classic software and install it on your Windows 10 laptop.
After you finish installing the software on your laptop, here are the steps on how to compress videos using Windows Movie Maker Classic:
- Open Windows Movie Maker Classic on your laptop.
- then on the Home tab, click the Add video and photos menu then find and select the video file that you want to compress.
- Wait for the process of importing video files into Movie Maker Classic.
- After the video file is already in Movie Maker Classic, the next step is to click the File menu.
- In the menu list that appears, please select the Save movie menu and then in Common settings select For computer.
- Select the storage location for the compressed video and please name the video file with a different name from the original video file. If so, click the Save button.
- At this stage, please wait for the video compression process to reach 100%.
- When the video compression process is complete, click on the Open Folder button to open the folder where the compressed video file is stored.
- The following is a comparison of the original video file which was originally 17 MB in size successfully compressed by Movie Maker Classic to 7 MB.
- Done.
How to Compress Videos on a Laptop Online Without an Application
You can reduce video file size online and for free by using online services.
This online service can be accessed via web browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox on all types of laptops such as Windows laptops, Linux laptops and MacBooks.
The advantage of this method is that you don’t have to bother downloading and installing applications.
However, the disadvantages of this method are that it takes a long time and a large enough quota to upload videos.
Well, there are several online services that have a feature to compress video files stored on Google Drive, Dropbox and also other online storage places that can be accessed directly via URL.
With this feature, you don’t need to upload videos to be compressed if the video file is already in Google Drive or Dropbox.
The following is a list of 16 websites that provide online video compression services that can be used for free.
- https://www.freeconvert.com/
- https://clideo.com/
- https://www.videosmaller.com/
- https://www.youcompress.com/
- https://www.onlineconverter.com/
- https://www.ps2pdf.com/
- https://www.video2edit.com/
- https://www.compress2go.com/
- https://www.mp4compress.com/
- https://www.compress.com/
- https://www.fileconverto.com/
- https://www.cloudpresso.com/
- https://www.compressvideo.io/
- https://www.clipcompress.com/
- https://www.videoconverter.com/
- https://www.videocompressor.dev/
All of these sites have features and basically the same method of use, namely by uploading a video, waiting for the compression process to finish and then clicking the available download button. Therefore you are free to choose whichever site you want.
However, of the many websites available, GadgetLogi recommends you to use the https://www.freeconvert.com/ service because it can be used for free with a video size of 1GB and also has the most complete features, namely:
- Compress videos from Google Drive, Dropbox and URLs so you don’t have to upload videos again.
- Upload the compressed video to Google Drive and Dropbox. This feature is very useful for saving quota because you don’t need to download and upload videos to be able to save them in online storage.
Steps:
- Open https://www.freeconvert.com/video-compressor using a web browser on your laptop.
- After that, in the Advanced Settings (Optional) section, please select Target Size, which is the percentage of compression you want to do. For example, if you choose 40% compression, then if your video file size was initially 10MB, it will be reduced to 6MB (40% reduced).
- Then click the Choose Files button to select the files on your laptop.
- If you want to select a file that is in online storage such as Google Drive and Dropbox then please click the down arrow to the right of the Choose Files button and then select the online storage you want.
- After you finish selecting the video files, the next step is to click the Compress Now! and wait for the upload and compression process to complete. At this stage you can also choose the format of the compressed video in the Output section, for example from MP4 to FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV or 3GP.
- If the compression process is complete, please click the green button that says Download MP4 to download the compressed video to your laptop storage. Now, if you want to save the video to online storage, please click the down arrow button then select Save to Google Drive or select Save to Dropbox.
- Done.
How to Compress Video on an Android Phone
There are two ways to compress videos on Android, namely through the application and without the application.
By using the application, you must first install the video compress application on your Android phone.
Well, if you don’t want to bother installing an application, then you can use the second method, namely compressing videos without an application by using an online video compression service that is accessed through a web browser application.
How to Compress Videos on Android Using the Video Compressor Application
If the application is already installed, please follow these steps:
- Open the Video Compressor application then press the Select from folder button.
- Then press the “COMPRESS VIDEO” button.
- At this stage you can select the recommended compress settings from the application / make your own settings for the video quality. At this stage you can determine how small the video file size you want. The smaller the video size, the lower the video quality, so please choose according to your needs.
- Here Gadgetlogi try to custom the video quality. You can also see the size comparison which was previously 60MB to 12MB.
- Press the “COMPRESS VIDEO” button to start the video compression process.
- The last step is to wait for the process to complete 100%.
- When finished, the compressed video storage location is in Internal Storage -> IdeaVideoCompressor.
How To Compress Videos On Android Online Without Applications
You can compress videos on Android online and for free without installing an application by using the following online services:
- https://www.freeconvert.com/
- https://clideo.com/
- https://www.videosmaller.com/
- https://www.youcompress.com/
- https://www.onlineconverter.com/
- https://www.ps2pdf.com/
- https://www.video2edit.com/
- https://www.compress2go.com/
- https://www.mp4compress.com/
- https://www.compress.com/
- https://www.fileconverto.com/
- https://www.cloudpresso.com/
- https://www.compressvideo.io/
- https://www.clipcompress.com/
- https://www.videoconverter.com/
- https://www.videocompressor.dev/
Of the many websites available, GadgetLogi recommends you to use the service https://www.freeconvert.com/ because it can be used for free with a video size of 1GB and also has the most complete features, namely:
- Compress videos from Google Drive, Dropbox and URLs so you don’t have to upload videos again.
- Save compressed videos to Google Drive and Dropbox.
Steps:
- Open https://www.freeconvert.com/video-compressor using a web browser on your android phone.
- After that, in the Advanced Settings (Optional) section, please select Target Size, which is the percentage of compression you want to do. For example, if you choose 40% compression, then if your video file size was initially 10MB, it will be reduced to 6MB (40% reduced).
- Then click the Choose Files button to select the files on your Android phone.
- If you want to select a file that is in online storage such as Google Drive and Dropbox then please click the down arrow to the right of the Choose Files button and then select the online storage you want.
- After you finish selecting the video files, the next step is to click the Compress Now! and wait for the upload and compression process to complete. At this stage you can also choose the format of the compressed video in the Output section, for example from MP4 to FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV or 3GP.
- If the compression process is complete, please click the green button that says Download MP4 to download the compressed video to your Android cellphone storage. Now, if you want to save the video to online storage, please click the down arrow button then select Save to Google Drive or select Save to Dropbox.
- Done.
How to Compress Video on an iPhone
There are two ways to compress videos on iPhone, namely through the application and without the application.
By using the application, you must first install the video compress application on your iPhone.
Well, if you don’t want to bother installing an application, then you can use the second method, namely compressing videos without an application by using an online video compression service that is accessed through a web browser application.
How to Compress Video On iPhone Using Video Compress App
If the application is already installed, please follow these steps:
- Open the Video Compress application then click the orange button to select the video to be compressed.
- Then give access permission to the application to access the videos on your iPhone by pressing the Select Photos button…
- After that, a list of videos on your cellphone will appear. Select the video that you want to compress then press the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Then select the video again and press the Check button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- At this stage you can play the video with the aim of making sure that you have selected the correct video file. If you are sure, press the Check button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Next please set the slider on the Compression Ratio. The bigger the percentage, the smaller the video size, but the video quality will also decrease. You can also see the size of the video after it has been compressed in the Target Size section.
- If you are sure of the Compression Ratio you have chosen, please start the compression process by pressing the Download button in the upper right corner of the screen and wait for the compression process to reach 100%.
- After the compression process is complete, you can save the compressed video to your iPhone storage by pressing the Save button on the left of the screen.
- You can also share or send the video via Email or WhatsApp by clicking the More button.
- Done.
How To Compress Video On iPhone Online Without Application
HP iphones cannot download video files, so to compress videos online you need to save the compressed video files in online storage such as Google Drive and Dropbox.
Therefore, you can use the https://www.freeconvert.com/ service because it has a feature to save compressed video files to online storage.
Steps:
- Go to https://www.freeconvert.com/video-compressor using a web browser on your iPhone.
- After that, in the Advanced Settings (Optional) section, please select Target Size, which is the percentage of compression you want to do. For example, if you choose 40% compression, then if your video file size was initially 10MB, it will be reduced to 6MB (40% reduced).
- Then click the Choose Files button to select the files on your iPhone.
- If you want to select a file that is in online storage such as Google Drive and Dropbox then please click the down arrow to the right of the Choose Files button and then select the online storage you want.
- After you finish selecting the video files, the next step is to click the Compress Now! and wait for the upload and compression process to complete. At this stage you can also choose the format of the compressed video in the Output section, for example from MP4 to FLV, MKV, AVI, MOV or 3GP.
- If the compression process is complete, please press the down arrow button and select Save to Google Drive or select Save to Dropbox.
- Done.
