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Compressing the upcompressable?

Smartphone Processing Solar System
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Alien_Enthusiast avatar
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Hi AstroBinners,

I have a 20-second video.

As it came from PIPP it weighed about 8GB

Then I packed it down to 200MB file thanks to H265



Im on AstroBin Lite, so my limit for uploading stuff is 25MB

What are my chances of compressing this video below that mark?

Its 3024px by 4032px at 12fps

A bunch of iPhone frames combined into a video using PIPP 

Plz help
Oscar avatar
Oscar avatar
try this https://riverside.fm/video-compressor

it says it's lossless
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Oscar avatar
Oscar avatar
try this too https://videoconverter.wondershare.com/compress/lossless-compression.html
Oscar avatar
Oscar avatar
going to sleep

if that software doesn't work, I'm sure someone else will help

hope it works; looks like good software

see you later
Alien_Enthusiast avatar
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try this too https://videoconverter.wondershare.com/compress/lossless-compression.html

*That software you recommended looks nice, but the highest resolution it has would be 4096 by 2160

And my video is 3000 by 4000 

So it doesn't work - it crops and I don't want that 

D. Jung avatar
D. Jung avatar
My recommendation is to use ffmpeg, you can adjust compression and resolution to reach the desired file size.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28803/how-can-i-reduce-a-videos-size-with-ffmpeg

Works in Linux and windows.
Chris Howe avatar
Chris Howe avatar

Try this tool: https://videocompress.ai/
It claims that its compression algorithm is powered by AI, ensuring no loss of video quality, and also offers many advanced compression settings.

Kristof Vandebeek avatar
Kristof Vandebeek avatar
Do you need the full  3024x4032 resolution on Astrobin? I think you can also "link" to the full video if someone wants to see it, and use a lower resolution video here on Astrobin instead.
Craig Towell avatar
Craig Towell avatar

If suggest cropping out any black space around the subject, also you could exclude every other frame, PIPP ca do both (I think)

Miguel T. avatar
Miguel T. avatar

Not even youtube will show a resolution like that without first downsampling it. If you need to keep this exact resolution, you will need to re-encode with ffmpeg with a much lower quality.

Low quality and dark background doesn’t bode well together. A healthy mix of downsampling and lower quality will most likely be more eye appealing than only reducing the quality.

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