How to compress large video with VLC?
To compress the video, go to the File menu and select Share. Depending on your goal, select one of the available options. You can choose to compress the video specifically for sending it via email or select the File option to set the desired quality and resolution yourself. In the same window you'll also see the size of your exported video.
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- 1 Right click or press and hold on one or more selected files and folders that you want to compress with NTFS Compression, and click/tap on Properties. 2 In the General tab, click/tap on the Advanced button. (see screenshots below) 3 Check the Compress contents to save disk space box, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshots below).
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Step 1: Go to VLC official page to download VLC. Note that VLC is a cross-platform program. Make sure you choose the right version for your system before clicking 'Download VLC' button.
Step 2: Install VLC.
- Double click VLC setup file, then a window will pop to ask you to allow this program to make changes to your computer. You should click 'Yes' to continue.
- You'll be asked whether to install optional VLC components or not. We suggest you to think twice before selecting those components. Otherwise, you'll have useless plugins. That would slow down the operating speed of your computer.
- When choosing the destination folder for VLC, 90% users have changed the default Disk C to other Disks to save space. Then click 'Continue'.
- A window will pop up to ask you to agree Network Access Policy. You have to click 'Continue' to go on.
Step 3. After installing and launching VLC, you can start compressing video now:
- Click 'Media' in the toolbar.
- Select 'Convert / Save'. You can also tap shortcut keys Ctrl + R to quickly open a new window.
- Click 'Add', you can load one or more video files. Here, I'll choose a video shot by GoPro.
- After loading the video file you want to compress, click 'Convert / Save' again.
- Choose your desired output profile type. With VLC, you can compress video to MP4, WebM, TS, and other formats.
Important notice: By clicking the wrench icon, you can access to the settings window, where you can customize parameters like codec, frame rate, bitrate, resolution, etc to change video file size. Here, we highly recommend you not to change the aspect ratio, i.e. not to scale the original video, because it will degrade the video quality and make this video useless.
- After customizing settings, click 'Browse' to find a destination folder for the compressed video.
- Finally, click 'Start' to shrink video size. Note: The whole compressing process may take a few minutes. During the compression, please do not close the window, or else the output video will be corrupted.
Step 1: Go to VLC official page to download VLC. Note that VLC is a cross-platform program. Make sure you choose the right version for your system before clicking 'Download VLC' button.
Step 2: Install VLC.
- Double click VLC setup file, then a window will pop to ask you to allow this program to make changes to your computer. You should click 'Yes' to continue.
- You'll be asked whether to install optional VLC components or not. We suggest you to think twice before selecting those components. Otherwise, you'll have useless plugins. That would slow down the operating speed of your computer.
- When choosing the destination folder for VLC, 90% users have changed the default Disk C to other Disks to save space. Then click 'Continue'.
- A window will pop up to ask you to agree Network Access Policy. You have to click 'Continue' to go on.
Step 3. After installing and launching VLC, you can start compressing video now:
- Click 'Media' in the toolbar.
- Select 'Convert / Save'. You can also tap shortcut keys Ctrl + R to quickly open a new window.
- Click 'Add', you can load one or more video files. Here, I'll choose a video shot by GoPro.
- After loading the video file you want to compress, click 'Convert / Save' again.
- Choose your desired output profile type. With VLC, you can compress video to MP4, WebM, TS, and other formats.
Important notice: By clicking the wrench icon, you can access to the settings window, where you can customize parameters like codec, frame rate, bitrate, resolution, etc to change video file size. Here, we highly recommend you not to change the aspect ratio, i.e. not to scale the original video, because it will degrade the video quality and make this video useless.
- After customizing settings, click 'Browse' to find a destination folder for the compressed video.
- Finally, click 'Start' to shrink video size. Note: The whole compressing process may take a few minutes. During the compression, please do not close the window, or else the output video will be corrupted.
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As showed above, compressing video with VLC is free. But it may be too complicated and slow for some users, especially for those who're not familiar with VLC and their computer configuration is old. Legacy of the void. Therefore, we'll also introduce an easier and faster way to reduce video file size - VideoProc for all types of users.