avdlee/video-compression

Compress video files to a much smaller size without visible quality loss, using HEVC and ffmpeg (or macOS avconvert), with verification and the original left untouched. Use when the user asks to compress, shrink, reduce, or resize a video, make a video smaller, fit it under a size limit (Discord, WhatsApp, email, Slack), re-encode iPhone or screen recordings, convert to HEVC or H.264, batch-compress a folder of clips, or free up disk space taken by videos. Also use for questions about video bitrate, HEVC versus H.264, or why a video file is so large. Skips files that are already efficient, so a re-encode never makes a file bigger.