Compress Videos & Resize Video 4+

Video compression

I had to do a video for my nurse practitioner program and it was done on my iPhone. It was about 30 minutes long. I tried every way possible to transfer it to my computer and NOTHING worked. It was even too large to email to myself. I tried several compression apps, talked to the tech support at the school, tried transferring it with the USB cable, nothing would work! Then, I found this app, downloaded it and tried it on another video first because I worked so hard on getting one that was good enough to turn in, I didn’t want to chance messing it up. It worked great on that video AND gave me the option to keep the original video so I was happy to have that as a safety net. I was able to transfer this one easily to my computer and it was still just as good of quality as the original video. I did it with my final video and it worked perfectly! I was able to download it into Kaltura for school and turn it in. This app saved me! Love it!

Looked promising, ended up wasting my time.

Just wasted an hour of my time *trying to* compress the same file 4 times. First time, after losing all the progress made from switching between apps and leaving it running in the background and coming back to it, which it didn’t inform of that happening if I were to not have it running in the foreground. Second time, after about 20+ minutes of it processing a message popped up saying ‘file couldn't be compressed to a smaller size, try adjusting the parameters before compressing to see if that will work’. So I adjusted, and frankly don't want to waste any more time writing this review, but long story short- third time told me there wasn't enough space on my iphone once it was nearing done, which I followed its prompts to clear some space in settibgs, which when i came back to it again all the progress (of 20+ minutes !!) — again — lost!! Only to persevere and now try for the win, with smaller parameters, only to after over a half an hour come back to it (in the foreground on my phone) 100% complete — and now says ‘file couldn't be compressed to a smaller size...’ Couldn't it figure all of this out BEFORE having me go through the motions and entire processes just to tell me it can’t!?? Great intention with creating the app — but needs more practical user-in-mind design. Best of luck towards improvement.

Developer Response ,

Hello. 

I'm sorry you encountered issues with the app.

I want to note that the fact you were running out of space on your device to save the video is not the app's fault. The app did what it could do to compress the video and couldn't figure out you had no storage space available until it tried to save the compressed video. There is nothing that can be done about that as apps aren't allowed by iOS to inquire about storage space availability.

Thank you for your understanding.

OK to try different settings

Amazing app with great control options. Developer recommends a minimum of 24 frames (70%) and 80% resolution but I tried all the way down to 5 frames (5%) and 64x36 res (5%). I found 18 frames (45%) with 512x288 res (40%) to be ok for me. At that medium compression I could just barely detect some jerkiness and some blurring but, in my opinion, it was just fine for viewing on my phone and even on a big screen TV and the file-compression is much better than the developer recommendations.

Your results may vary. Note that the amount of file-size compression depends greatly on your default camera settings. If you shoot in 4K your compression will be much more than if your default is only 720. If you want cinematic quality you probably should not be using this app. But if you want to save storage space on your phone or in the cloud, then this app is fantastic!!!