Compress a video to an exact file size

Overview

Pick a video and a limit: 1, 5, 8, 10, 16, 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 MB. The presets follow the ceilings you run into most, in messaging apps, mail attachments and upload forms. iEdit works out the bitrate that fits the video's length under that number, and if the bitrate would be too low for the frame size to look acceptable, it lowers the resolution as well. You do not pick a quality level; the size is the brief and the tool fits the video to it.

Encoders do not hit a number exactly on the first try. If the finished file comes out above the limit, iEdit re-encodes it, up to twice, tightening the settings until it fits. If a limit is simply unreachable for a given clip, say a long 4K recording into 1 MB, the tool tells you the smallest size it can reach instead of producing an unusable file. Encoding uses the phone's hardware encoder, metadata is kept, and the job runs in the background with a notification when done.

Target size is the tool to reach for when the problem is a number rather than a look: a clip for a chat app that stops at 16 MB, a submission form that caps uploads at 25 MB, an e-mail attachment limit. Compress video is the better choice when you care about quality first and size second. Everything happens on your device and nothing is uploaded, so it works offline too.