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Since compressing on a Mac, File>Compress...doesn't do the trick, can you recommend a compressor from the App Store that will compress my videos significantly like the iPhone does?

Compressing a 30mb file makes it into a zip with no change in size.

Thanks for your help

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Answer 4

sberman

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Mar 23, 2023 4:17 PM in response to mrokloricred37

APPLEAL wrote:

can you recommend a compressor from the App Store that will compress my videos significantly like the iPhone does?

If the iPhone does the job (I don’t know how), why not simply send the email from there?
Surely you have an iCloud method available to use Mail Drop should you choose to do so.
Consider “compression”. Each bit of information is presumably present for a reason. The whole concept of compressing a file suggests some loss of information.

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Answer 5

Mar 23, 2023 4:28 PM in response to sberman

Just rather not use my iCloud address in emails.

The phone compressed a 33mb video to 3mb and receiver said it was perfect.

Mac is bigger and easier to use, so would rather compress and send, though I guess if I got a compressor app, the receiver may need the same or could uncompress with their own "un"compressor?

Find it amazing that the iPhone will send this stuff instantly and software to compress is not made available by Apple as part of its OS. Terribly inconsistant. I know , send to feedback...I have!

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