Who doesn’t love high-quality videos? It’s a pleasure to watch 4K and 8K videos because they provide a bright crisp image and create an immersive experience. The only downside is the size – high-quality videos on average are larger than 1GB. It’s often a nuisance to share such videos, they take a lot of time to send in messengers and many social media networks have strict upload size limits. 

Luckily, there is a workaround! With the help of video compression tools, you can shrink the size of videos without quality loss and share them quickly anywhere you want. The options are plentiful, so to save your time, we’ve hand-picked the cream of the crop tools for the task. Check out our top video compressor applications and online services, and select the one that fits your needs best.

8mbvideo

Price: Free

This is a popular web-based service that enables you to reduce the size of videos from your device and URLs alike. Though its tagline is “Perfectly compressed files just under 8MB,” the service also offers video compression to 50 and 100MB. 8mbvideo offers quality retention, video sound removal, automatic download upon completion, as well as skipping several seconds from the beginning and the end of your video. 

XConvert 

Price: from $4.99/month

This is a powerful online video compressor that allows you to swiftly upload files in up to 4GB in size and various formats, including MP4, MKV, MOV and WebM. You are free to choose the output file format, video codec (H264 or H265) and how the video will be compressed – by file size percentage, variable bitrate, constant bitrate or using a present with CRF. Each of these four options come with settings you can manually manipulate to get exactly what you want. 

WinX

Price: from $24.95/3 months

This is a desktop application for video editing comes with the compression feature. Available for Windows and macOS, WinX supports HD and 4K video, formats like MP4, MKV, M2TS, AVI, WMV and MOV, and over 370 video codecs. Its uses intricate coding algorithms and advanced entropy encoding techniques to reduce 4K 2160p video size by up to 90%. The application compresses large files by changing the bitrate (from CBR to VBR) and the framerate (from 60FPS to 30FPS, 4K to 1080p). The Level-2 hardware acceleration (QSV, NVIDIA CUDA/NVENC and AMD VCE) ensures lightning fast compression speed for 720p, 1080p, 4K and 8K videos alike. 

HitPaw

Price: from $12.99/month

This service for image and video compression comes in both online and desktop formats. The latter boasts a little bit more features – batch upload, unlimited upload file size, free selection of output file formats, video AND image compression, and various types of size reduction, including the change of bitrate, resolution and FPS. The online format acts like a mini version of the service, enabling you to input files up to 20MB in popular formats and quickly compress video. 

CloudPresso

Price: Free

This is a versatile service for compression of video files, as well as images, documents and apk online. With its help, you can upload files from your device, DropBox and GoogleDrive, input up to 10 files in one go, and reduce the size of your video by 80% with minimal quality loss. CloudPresso offers several compression options you can choose from. It also processes files quite fast – it takes just a few minutes to encode large videos up to 1GB.

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