How to compress .MOV files?

You may also refer to this step by step guide to compress MOV to smaller size at the same time no quality loss

This guide can easily:

• Compress MOV fast and with almost no loss of video and audio quality loss.
• Compress MOV as well as save the compressed MOV to MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, MKV, ASF etc.
• Compress MOV video on Mac OS X or Windows computer
• Besides compressing MOV files, it also can compress AVI, MP4, MP3, MKV, AVCHD, Apple ProRes, etc. as well as MOV.
• This powerful MOV Compressor also features other editing function like rotate, split, merge, watermark, effect, subtitles and more.

i know the software that truely compresses mov files by reducing its size. there is a bit rate calculator for you to control the size and video quality. learn more from videocompressorformac.net/compressmovmac.html

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I know a step by step guide on how to compress MOV, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, VOB, FLV, MPEG2 and more on Mac or Windows at How to Compress Video MOV, MKV, AVI, MP4, MPEG, FLV, WMV, VOB?

Besides compressing video to smaller files size, this guide also applies to compress audio to smaller file size, and applies to convert video to other video or audio formats

Hope it helps more or less

i tried a lot of converters to solve such similar problems, but which impressed me mostly is wondershare video converter ultimate, and here is a tutorial shows you how to compress mov files. hope it do help.

There are MANY ways to accomplish the compression you're talking about.

One method is to open the file in Quicktime and then export it from there -- try out some of the various export options to find the best balance of image quality and size that you like.

Even though the quality may not be perfect, my prefered method is to use Handbrake to compress the files.

In order to use Handbrake you'll want to download it along with VLC for the mac. Open VLC first and make sure it launches, then open Handbrake. Handbrake uses VLC for some of it's decoding/encoding tasks so you'll want to make sure it is on your computer.

Anyhow, once Handbrake is open, you can choose one of the video files, select a preset on the right side for what format you'd like it to be in -- iPad, iPhone, AppleTV, Universal, etc. You can then choose where to save the file and what name to give it, and click Encode. Alternatively you can queue that file up and then choose the next one, then encode them all at once.

Your .mov files are already compressed. No way to make them smaller in size except via "export" to other (smaller) dimensions and data rates. This causes a reduction in video quality.

Better to get larger storage devices and keep your original sized files.

I have used most of this softwares but the one that I like and recommend is avs, If you don't know how to do that, take a look at this step by step guide, it will teach you how to compress resource video file size

Is it possible to compress in iMovie (and if so, how), or will I need freeware to do it? Or is it even possible at all?

The basic answer here is that any converter app that exports the audio + video data to a lower combined total data rate will produce a small file. However, there is a limit to your ability to decrease the data rates and still produce useable output. In general, decreasing the data rate will drecrease quality unless you also decrease the dimensions of the targeted encoding matrix and/or otherwise modify the distribution of data per unit of time. In most cases the basic strategy is to use a high effeciency codec export option that allows the user to manually modify the export settings to produce the most compact file with a level of quality that the user "can live with." How low you can go will usually depend on the preferences of the specific user. Since your iPhone files are already highly compressed, my personal recommendation in your case would really be to move up to higher density optical media (e.g., DVD) or break down and spend the $10-$20 it would take to upgrade to a 16 GB or 32 GB drive.

look this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpIqbpKQV0 . i often use this and can solve my problem .hope to helps.

There are three methods to compress a large MOV file:

Method one: Convert MOV to H.264 MP4
Method two: Reduce MOV Frame Size
Method three: Decrease MOV Bitrate

I know a step by step guide that will help you compress MOV files with the above methods.

Beside compress MOV, the guide also inform us how to compress MP4, AVI, WMV, MKV, FLV, ASF, MP3, WAV and so on.