Compress Video

Compress videos to reduce file size with Kapwing

Compress a video and maintain quality

Compressing videos is vital when sharing content online. You can get around file size limits on social media, email, and messaging platforms by reducing the video size using a video compressor. When videos are compressed, they become compatible with more online platforms for people to see and experience.

Having large video files gets difficult to manage for everyone involved. With Kapwing’s video compressor, you have full control over compressing videos while still maintaining the best video quality possible. Use the compression slider to reduce video file size and make your video more shareable.

How to Compress Video Online

Upload your video
Upload a video to Kapwing directly from your computer. You can also paste a video link from an external source like YouTube or TikTok.
Compress and reduce file size
Select Export and compress your video by using the slider to reduce your video file to the desired size and resolution.
Download and share
Your video will be processed to download and share. No payments or software installations needed!

Compress a video to share anywhere with anyone

Oftentimes when we’re trying to share our content with others online, we’re hit with a pop-up window notifying us that we’ve exceeded our file size limit— sometimes as small as 8MB.

With Kapwing’s video compressor, you can compress videos while still controlling the quality of your video. Once you’ve selected how compressed you want your video, you can choose to convert your video to a different file type or select the resolution of your video to ensure the best quality possible. Kapwing’s all-in-one video editor supports all of these workflows while also allowing you to make edits such as trimming clips, adding text and image overlays, combining videos with audio, and much more.

To get started, upload your video file or paste a video URL link in Kapwing. Head to the Export Settings in the video editor and adjust the file size slider to determine how much you want to compress your video. Choose what resolution you’d like your video to be and when ready, export your project as any file type: MP4, GIF, Image, or MP3.

Once your compressed video is finished exporting, you can download your compressed video, share across social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok, or send to others using the video link.

This free online video compressor is also the best way to compress files for email, Google Slides, or Discord. Kapwing supports MP4, MOV, MP3, FLV, AVI, WEBM, and website links. Upload any file to compress or reduce its file size online.

Kapwing's Video Compressor works for free! Use it to compress video on Windows, Mac, tablets, Chromebooks, iPhones, or Android phones. Our mission is to provide fast, accessible tools to empower creators and their stories. We believe everyone is a creator, so this tool was made for everyone.

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Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

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Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Start Editing

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

See All Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I reduce the MB size of a video?

To reduce the MB size of a video, you can use a video compressor. A video compressor will allow you to upload your video and compress the video file into a smaller file, making it easier to manage. You can use a video compressor to reduce a gigabyte (GB) to a megabyte (MB) if needed. Keep in mind that compressing your video might also change the resolution and quality of the file, depending on the size you’re compressing it to.

How do I compress a video to email it?

You can compress a video to email it by using a video compressor. Compressing a video is a file exporting process that reduces video file sizes. In this process, your video file size becomes smaller, making it more compatible for emailing, posting on social media, or sharing across messaging platforms like WhatsApp or Discord.

How do I compress a video for free online?

The best way to compress a video for free online is to use Kapwing’s Video Compressor. Kapwing supports many video file types including MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM, and more. Whether you need to compress a 3GB video file or a 200MB one, you can do so in Kapwing without having to pay, sign in, or install any software.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

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Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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